Today's story is The Little Drummer Boy illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats
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from St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in the presence of HM The Queen, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh and other members of the Royal Family
(also on BBC1 and BBC Wales)
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A masterly new film by Kon Ichikawa, director of Alone on the Pacific and Tokyo Olympiad on the magnificent former capital city of Japan.
The film is a remarkable interpretation of the indestructible elements of Japanese culture of which Kyoto is the spirit. Ichikawa records on film, for the first time in its entirety, the Imperial villa of Katsura, the famous moss gardens and the monastic life of the Buddhist monk.
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A historic documentary film by Richard Cawston
(Also on BBC1 and BBC Wales)
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Introduced by Magnus Magnusson

At midnight on 26 October 1588 the galleass Girona, a warship of the Spanish Armada, foundered on the cruel rocks of the Irish coast with the loss of 1,300 lives. Aboard were the combined commanders and crews of five ships, their gold, jewels, ornaments, and treasured possessions salvaged from the defeated Armada.
Four hundred years later Robert Stenuit, a Belgian diver, author, and archaeologist, located the wreck of the Girona. With Magnus Magnusson, he tells the story of two years' dangerous and painstaking work to reveal this first discovery of the legendary treasure of the Armada, and presents the latest finds to appear from this year's dive.

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starring Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
This new production was first televised in January of this year.
'I cannot imagine a more sumptuous or more exciting presentation of ballet...' (Peter Black: Daily Mail)
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Artists of the Royal Ballet and students of the Royal Ballet School

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by John Lanchbery
Introduced by Christopher Gable
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A duel of words and wit between Cliff Michelmore, Kenneth More, Lance Percival and Jean Metcalfe, Eleanor Summerfield, Hilary Pritchard
Referee Robert Robinson

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featuring the combined and various talents of Georgie Fame and Alan Price with special guests Billy Preston, Doris Troy
The Ladybirds, Pan's People

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The Sicilian Teatro dei Pupi is probably the most exciting, and certainly the most bloodthirsty, of all the world's puppet theatres. Dragons, cannibals, angels, devils, the knights of Charlemagne, courtly love and revenge are all presented with a blaze of colour and a really astonishing amount of noise.
In this film performance the dialogue is sub-titled, but the plot may be summarised as death-or-glory and needs no explanation for anyone who has ever slain dragons in his sleep.
A Review special
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Gerald Harrison talks to boys and girls in North London schools about the world's biggest festival
(from BBC North)
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The story of His life through the eyes of the young generation
featuring
The Young Generation

Heather Beckers, Bobby Bannerman, Marie Betts, Iain Burton, Ann Chapman, Chris Cooper, Catherine Collins, Roger Finch, Jackie Dalton, Richard Gough, Denise Fone, Paul Guess, Jane Herbert, Harry Higham, Lynda Herbert, Roger Howlett, Carolyn Heywood, Nigel Lythgoe, Linda Jolliff, Colin Pilditch, Lesley Judd, Jeremy Robinson, Kay Korda, Brian Rogers, Linda Lawrence, Donald Torr, Sandy Penson,
Kenneth Warwick, Wei Wei Wong, Trevor Willis
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by Sir John Betjeman
An aerial tour of the English seaside in the company of John Betjeman

"A swooping seagull takes its flight
From Weymouth to the Isle of Wight
From Cornish cliff tops wild and bare
To crowds at Weston-super-Mare
The seaside seen as history
Bournemouth, Butlin's and Torquay
Whatever paddles, surfs or sails
Braves the waves or rides the gales
A scrapbook made at Christmastime
Of summer joys in film and rhyme."
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First transmitted in 1969, Bird's Eye View traces the origins of the British seaside holiday, said to lie with King George III. Show more

At home in his 200-year-old Sussex windmill ('a good place for memories') Henry Longhurst looks back in colour on the highspots and low-spots of sport in 1969, and mixes a brew of excitement, nostalgia, and personal opinions.
Guests: Henry Cooper, Colin Cowdrey and Grand National winning jockey Eddie Harty
In action: Tony Jacklin; Arnold Palmer; the Ryder Cup; the Cup Final; England's soccer team; Leeds United; George Best; Dave Mackay; Rod Laver; Ann Jones; Pancho Gonzales; Jackie Stewart; Lester Piggott; Henry Cooper; Alan Rudkin; Jack Bodell; Gary Sobers; John Edrich; Derek Underwood; the Derby; the Grand National; Rugby League; Ian Stewart; Lillian Board; Budge Rogers; the Springboks; the anti-Springboks; the pressures; the politics; the punch-ups.
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An echo of a late summer's evening in New York when that one-woman phenomenon which is Streisand held an audience of some 128,000 people spellbound for almost an hour.

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starring Aldo Ray, Peter O'Toole, Elizabeth Sellars

A group of Irish patriots and a professional American criminal make a daring attempt to achieve the impossible.