News in Welsh.
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
yn dymuno
NadoliK Llawen a chyfarchion y tymor oddi wrth OWEN EDWARDS ac Uned Heddiw
Today: Christmas edition
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Comment; Controversy; Conversation on issues of the day.
A Monday meeting for people of opinions with Erskine Childers, Professor Ayer and Mrs. A. J. Ayer, Professor and Mrs. Bernard Williams.
For the very young
Pages turned by Patricia Driscoll.
BBC film
(to 14.15)
Introduced by David Attenborough.
The only zoo in the world entirely devoted to showing the animals and birds mentioned in the Bible.
From the West
Written and produced by Shaun Sutton.
Another chance to see some more criminal capers.
with Colin Douglas, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Douglas Blackwell
Previously shown on August 4
A nation-wide general knowledge contest between schools.
Grove Park School for Boys, Wrexham
Question-Master, Geoffrey Wheeler
v.
Kingston Grammar School for Boys
Question-Master, David Dimbleby
A daily presentation of news and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Richard Baker.
followed by The Weather
Chairman, Eamonn Andrews
Panel: Isobel Barnett, Barbara Kelly, David Nixon, Gerald Nabarro, M.P. and a mystery guest celebrity.
Televised by arrangement with C.B.S.
by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.
The Sadler's Wells production
Written by Vince Powell and Frank Roscoe.
This week: The Pantomime
Starring Harry Worth
with Reginald Marsh, Edwin Apps, Gordon Rollings, Doris Gambell, Joe Gladwin, Barbara Keogh, Pamela Manson, Tony Melody, Jack Woolgar, Douglas Clarke
From the North
See page 24
The Window on the World
Panorama cameras look at People-Places-Problems that make news.
Introduced by Richard Dimbleby with reports from Panorama's regular team of commentators Robin Day, Ludovic Kennedy, John Morgan, James Mossman.
with Robert Robinson
A quick look at points from the week's post.
Letters for inclusion in these programmes should be addressed to Points of View, [address removed]
First performance of an opera specially commissioned for BBC Television
Based on the story by Charles Dickens.
with Stephen Manton and Trevor Anthony
The Pro Arte Orchestra
Leader, Max Salpeter
Conducted by William Reid
Associate conductor, Alan Boustead
Starring Joan Fontaine, David Farrar and Charles Drake
This is a story of the supernatural. A widow finds her plans to remarry jeopardised when she is haunted by the ghost of her late husband.
From Austria:
The Vienna Boys Choir in the Maria Treu-Kirche Vienna.
From Sweden:
The Choir of St. Peter's Church, Malmo in Bosebo Church, Lund.
From Switzerland:
The Choirboys of St. Paul's Church, Lucerne in the Marienkirche, Emmenbrucke.
From Britain:
The Choir of Wells Cathedral
and The First Communion of Christmas Day from Exeter Cathedral in the presence of The Bishop of Exeter.
Celebrant, The Rev. Canon H. Balmforth, Chancellor of the Cathedral
Music
The Service is sung to Stanford in C and the hymns are from English Hymnal:
O come, all ye faithful (No. 28)
The Maker of the sun and moon (No. 16)
While shepherds watched their nocks by night (No. 30)
Hark! the herald-angels sing (No. 24)
During the Communion of the people the choir sings:
O Jesu, most kind (Bach)
Up good Christen folk and listen The Shepherds' Cradle hymn
