11:00

Play School: Dressing-Up Day

Tue 23^rd Dec 1969, 11:00 on BBC Two England

Today's story is 'The Emperor's New Clothes' adapted by Sheila Front illustrated by Charles Front
(repeated on BBC1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 pm)
(Colour)

Contributors

Adapter (The Emperor's New Clothes):: Sheila Front
Illustrator (The Emperor's New Clothes):: Charles Front
Presenter:: Johnny Ball
Presenter:: Carol Chell

Source: Radio Times

11:20

Closedown

BBC Two

Tue 23^rd Dec 1969, 11:20 on BBC Two England

Source: Radio Times

19:30

Newsroom and Weather

BBC Two

Tue 23^rd Dec 1969, 19:30 on BBC Two England

(Colour)

Source: Radio Times

20:00

The First Night of 'Pygmalion'

BBC Two

Tue 23^rd Dec 1969, 20:00 on BBC Two England

by Richard Huggett
[Starring] Max Adrian as Bernard Shaw, Miriam Karlin as Mrs Patrick Campbell
and John Osborne as Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Three monstrous - but brilliantly witty - egoists came together when Beerbohm Tree agreed to stage Shaw's new play Pygmalion at His Majesty's Theatre in April 1914. The star was the outrageous Mrs Patrick Campbell.
This is an entertaining reconstruction of how Shaw came to write the play, and the tempests and tribulations of the rehearsal period which led up to the dramatic first night.

(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:: Richard Huggett
Lighting:: Jim Richards
Sound:: Derek Miller-Timmins
Costume:: Catriona Tomalin
Make-up:: Tina Clare
Designer:: Fanny Taylor
Producer:: Hal Burton
Bernard Shaw:: Max Adrian
Mrs Patrick Campbell:: Miriam Karlin
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree:: John Osborne
Stanley Bell:: John Graham
Dame Edith Lyttleton:: Olwen Brooks
Henry Dana:: Richard Huggett
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Carlotta Addison (Mrs Eynsford Hill):: Naomi Campbell
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Margaret Busse (Clara):: Pamela Roland
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Irene Delisse (Eliza's understudy):: Lynne White
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Algernon Grieg (Freddy):: Stuart Eames
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Edmund Gurney (Doolittle):: Ernest Jennings
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Philip Merivale (Col Pickering):: Michael Behr
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Rosamund Mayne-Young (Mrs Higgins):: Winifred Hill
The 'Pygmalion' cast - Alexander Sarner (A Bystander):: Alexander John
Others parts:: Ernest Claydon
Others parts:: Richard Hallifax
Others parts:: Alexander John
Others parts:: Verne Morgan
Others parts:: David Sparks

Source: Radio Times

21:10

Hollywood in the Sixties: The Spiral Road

BBC Two

Tue 23^rd Dec 1969, 21:10 on BBC Two England

Starring Rock Hudson, Burl Ives
with Gena Rowlands, Geoffrey Keen

Jan de Hartog's story concerns a young doctor (Rock Hudson), determined to conquer leprosy in the remote areas of Java where he has been assigned to complete his government medical service.
He hopes to bring to the world the knowledge of the world's greatest authority on the disease - Dr Brits Jansen (played by Burl Ives) - but it is a disturbing challenge, for Jansen has for years remained a recluse in a remote jungle outpost.

(Colour)