A programme for children at home
Today's story: 'The Lost Tambourine'
Repeated on BBC-1 and BBC Wales at 4.10 p.m.
(Colour)
(to 11.20)
featuring Brigitte Bardot, Harry Secombe, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass, Buddy Rich and his Orchestra
(Colour)
A film based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
Starring June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Peter Lawford, Rossano Brazzi
Louisa May Alcott's classic story about the fortunes of four sisters in America in the 1860s, loosely based on her own childhood experiences.
(Colour)
A close-up of the world-famous trumpet player at work and in carefree mood from Malibu to Mexico
A programme recorded in America
(Colour)
A Halas and Batchelor cartoon
The Christmas Visitor is Santa Claus with a bumper sack of toys and other presents.
(Colour)
Pascal's grandfather invents a balloon and the young boy stows away on a spectacular voyage.
A film written and directed by Albert Lamorisse
Albert Lamorisse, maker of the famous short film "The Red Balloon", this time takes his cameras aloft in a balloon for an extraordinary voyage across France.
(Colour)
The World Tonight
Reporting: John Timpson, Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents of BBC News
followed by The Weather
(Colour)
by Nicholas Bethell
Based on a short story by Alexander Pushkin
Starring John Ronane as Silvio, Peter Jeffrey as The Baron, Ann Bell as Sofia, Ilona Rodgers as The Baroness
"John Ronane... and Peter Jeffrey... were both excellent: the scene of their first duel was beautifully done." (The Times)
"Duels have been parodied so often that it was a tribute to the production that this one had to be taken seriously." (Daily Telegraph)
"'The Pistol Shot' beautifully dressed, impeccably designed, firmly in the tradition of European literature." (Sunday Times)
(Colour)
Francis Albert Sinatra does his thing and invites you to The Frank Sinatra Show
with his guests Diahann Carroll and the Fifth Dimension.
A programme recorded in America
(Colour)
or the story of The Magic Lantern
Horizon presents a nostalgic, colourful, Christmas entertainment. Laughter, joy, sadness; all the wisdom of centuries; riddles that have puzzled kings; angels, witches, pirates, sirens-they are all in the magic box of the itinerant Magic Lantern Showman.
Mr. Michael Balfour invites you to share the mystery and magic of the famous Victorian optical toy-the last moment before pictures began to move.
Miss Florence De Jong provides the musical accompaniment.
(Colour)
sing a programme of early Christmas carols
The Clerkes of Oxenford are former choral scholars of Oxford University, and the fifteenth-century Chapel of Magdalen College is an appropriate setting for these English and Continental carols which mostly date from the same period.
Sonata for Trombones (Daniel Speer), I Come from Heaven High to Tell, Eia! Novus Annus Est, Verbum Patris, O Magnum Mysterium (Jacob Handl), The Lord at First Did Adam Make, Make We Joy Now in This Fest (Walton), Nova! Nova!, Quem Pastores Laudavere, Magnificat for Trombone (Samuel Scheidt)
(Filmed in Magdalen College Chapel, Oxford, by permission of the President and Fellows)
(Colour)
Starring John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden, Nadia Gray
with Maurice Denham, Richard Wattis
A tramp steamer captain promoted to the bridge of a luxury liner finds he has a whole new set of problems to contend with.
(Colour)
