Maria Bird brings Andy to play with your small children.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
Gladys Whitred sings the songs
BBC film
(to 11.00)
News in Welsh.
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Owen Edwards yn cyflwyno pynciau'r dydd yng Nghymru gyda Harri Gwynn a John Bevan
Cyfarwyddwyr, Geraint S. Jones a William Aaron
Cynhyrchwyr, Ifor Rees a John Roberts Williams
Golygydd, Nan Davies
Today: a topical magazine.
(Welsh transmitters and Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace)
Stories about a family of wooden dolls who live on a farm.
Audrey Atterbury and Molly Gibson pull the strings
BBC film
(to 13.45)
A Persian fantasy by Gordon Murray.
Presented by the BBC Puppet Theatre
BBC film
A second chance to see the Russian cartoon film based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen.
A little boy, Kay, is bewitched by the Icy Queen of the Snows. Can the love of his friend Gerda save him from disaster?
A daily presentation of news and views from London and the South-East.
Introduced by Michael Aspel.
followed by The Weather
A series by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling.
Christmas Eve is not without its last-minute crises-both for the office and the Compact show.
"On the way to Californy
It was a Long and teejus journey,
Fur across the Rocky Mountains,
Crystal caves and snow-white fountains."
William Collins crossed that Overland Trail to the Pacific between 1880 and 1900 - the roaring days of the American Frontier. Now, in full retreat from the civilisation he helped to create, he lives an elusive hermit's life in a mountain cabin high in the Sierra Nevada.
Fyfe Robertson tracked him down; and this is his story.
A Tonight presentation
A comedy film series of family life with never a dull moment.
Starring Lucille Ball
with Vivian Vance, Candy Moore, Jimmy Garrett, Ralph Hart
Lucy and Viv and the children are Together for Christmas... but only just!
Written by Lou Solomon and S.J. Perelman.
The London of Elizabeth Taylor is a London remembered mostly from childhood - a mosaic of places, people, and events and of the written and spoken word.
A crime series from the novels of Georges Simenon.
Dramatised by Donald Bull from the novel "Maigret s'amuse."
Starring Rupert Davies as Chief-Inspector Maigret
with Ewen Solon as Lucas
and Helen Shingler as Madame Maigret, Neville Jason as Lapointe
Guest stars: Michael Goodliffe, Neil McCallum
A BBC-tv production
A crime of passion, like the Javet murder, attracts a lot of anonymous letters...
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A Christmas edition of Old-Time Music-Hall from the stage of the famous City Varieties, Leeds.
Presenting Frankie Vaughan, Stan Stennett, The Clark Brothers, Albert Burdon and Company, Ray Alan and 'Lord Charles', Hammond's Birds, Margery Manners
Chairman, Leonard Sachs
(Frankie Vaughan is appearing in 'Puss in Boots' at the Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham; Stan Stennett in 'Cinderella' at the Pavilion, Bournemouth; Albert Burdon in 'Aladdin' at Golders Green Hippodrome)
from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.
A television programme for the Eve of Christ's Nativity.
Hymn: Once in Royal David's City
Bidding Prayer
Carol: O Little Town of Bethlehem
First Lesson: Genesis 3, w. 8-15 The Fall, read by A Chorister
Carol: Up! good Christian folk
Second Lesson: St. Luke 1, vv. 26-33, and 38 The Message of the Angel read by A Choral Scholar
Carol: The holly and the ivy
Third Lesson: St. Matthew 1, w. 18-23 The Dream of Joseph read by The Director of Music
Carol: Joseph was an old man
Fourth Lesson: St. Luke 2, vv. 8-16 The Vision of the Shepherds read by The Lay of Dean
Carol: Unto us is born a Son
Fifth Lesson: St. Matthew 2, vv. 1-11 The Magi read by The Dean
Carol: The three kings
Sixth Lesson: 1 John 4, vv. 7-11 The Love of God read by The Provost
The Collect; The Blessing
The Epilogue: From Milton's Hymn
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Hymn: O come, all ye faithful
Organ, John Langdon
Alan Whicker tells the true story of the Song of Christmas - and the delight we all owe to a hungry church mouse.
A Tonight presentation
from Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church, Ardoyne, Belfast.
The action of the Mass described by Fr. Patrick McEnroe.
Introit (Psalm Tune: Gregorian)
Kyrie (Missa, O quam gloriosum est regnum: Victoria)
Gloria (Missa de Angelis: Plainsong)
Gradual (Psalm Tune: Gregorian)
Credo No. 3 (Plainsong)
Offertory (Psalm Tune: Gregorian)
Motet: Adeste fidelis (trad.)
Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Del
(Missa, O quam gloriosum est regnum: Victoria)
Communion (Psalm Tune: Gregorian)
