Today's story is Wolf, Wolf adapted and illustrated by Tony Hart
(repeated on BBC1 and BBC Wales at 4.25 pm)
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A look at some of the programmes over the Christmas holiday.
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by Rex Tucker
[Starring] Timothy Dalton as Ahmed, Isla Blair as Princess Yasmin
with Gordon Gostelow as The Carpet Dealer, Peter Jeffrey as The Sun Prince, Roy Kinnear as The Moon Prince, Kenneth Mackintosh as The Caliph
and Cleo Laine as The Voice of Scheherazade
(Kenneth Mackintosh, William Hobbs, and Frederick Pyne are National Theatre players)
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An invitation to step into the humorous and imaginative world of James Thurber.
A series starring William Windom as John Monroe, Joan Hotchkis as his wife Ellen,
Lisa Gerritsen as his daughter Lydia

Certainly there is much to be said for giving your small daughter a conventional Christmas present. Like a new doll. But at the time a United States flag seemed the ideal gift.
It's just that nobody appreciates patriotic fathers any more.
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For three seasons, the archaeologists, watched by BBC cameras, camped at the foot of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire. Now, as traces of their presence fast disappear, Ludovic Kennedy looks back on the third and most publicised attempt to answer the multitude of questions posed by the biggest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe.
(from BBC South and West)
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leader David McCallum
and featuring Lena Martell, Mike Redway, The Mike Sammes Singers and Derek Hardwick

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Reporting the world tonight: John Timpson and Peter Woods and the reporters and correspondents of BBC News
and Weather
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Big, battered and rough-looking Johnny Cash sings of trains, prisons, and hard times. For years he scraped a living with his guitar and his songs. Now he's at the top, not only of the Country and Western scene, but just at the top. In demand for the best television programmes, the most prestigious concerts, on the cover of Life magazine-a household name. Coolly and shrewdly he husbands his success. Calmly. almost cynically, he's determined never to forget the grit and poverty of his background and the years of tough waiting.
On Christmas Eve, Man Alive hands over to a remarkable film made by a husband and wife team in America about Johnny Cash. The film followed him not only on a singing tour, but on a return to his early beginnings and his first background : the main inspiration of his haunting songs.

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starring John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall
A sparkling British comedy about the rivalry between two competitors in the annual London to Brighton veteran car run.

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introduced by Michael Flanders
Wandsworth School Choir
Conductor Russell Burgess
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The famous film thriller starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson

Rightly regarded as a Hollywood classic, Laura is a startlingly original mystery: the story of a murdered girl and the people she knew - but with a surprising twist.