Today's story is Puss In Boots adapted and illustrated by Barry Wilkinson
(Colour)
Albert Lamorisse's delightful award-winning fantasy about a little boy who makes friends with a red balloon.
The majestic views of Paris, the impeccable trick photography, and the charm of Lamorisse's son, Pascal, make this a worthy successor to the director's famous Wild Stallion.
Written and directed by Albert Lamorisse
(Colour)
starring James Stewart, Kim Novak, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs
The film version of John Van Druten's play with a strong and appealing cast headed by James Stewart as a publisher and Kim Novak as a young lady with 'strange powers' who, with her Aunt Queenie (Elsa Lanchester), belongs to a family of witches. This delightful comedy with an excellent cast is ideal entertainment for Boxing Day.
(Colour)
(Colour)
from Blenheim Palace
with Percy Thrower and guest Arthur Negus
Very few homes are without a modest, if sometimes motley collection of flower vases, bowls, and pots which, collectively, are called, less familiarly perhaps jardiniere.
Arthur Negus shows some superb examples from the past and Percy Thrower suggests what flowers and plants they might have contained.
(from BBC Midlands)
(Colour)
Verdi's opera conducted by Edward Downes
starring Gwyneth Jones as Aida, Grace Bumbry as Amneris, Charles Craig as Radames, John Shaw as Amonasro
First shown in February last year, this was the first-ever complete opera televised live and in colour direct from the stage of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
'One of those rare experiences' (The Sun)
'Gorgeous to behold' (The Times)
'A revelation to have the eye so well directed' (Daily Telegraph)
Sung in Italian with English sub-titles
Act 1: Memphis
Scene 1 The Royal Palace
Scene 2 The Temple of Vulcan
Act 2: Thebes
Scene 1 The apartments of Amneris
Scene 2 Near the city gates
Act 3 The banks of the Nile, near the Temple of Isis
Act 4: Memphis
Scene 1 The Royal Palace
Scene 2 The Temple of Vulcan above; a crypt below
(Colour)
starring Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Gable
The widow is young and difficult to resist. She helps the new Wesleyan minister to cure his streaming cold and he is troubled in his conscience because of her and mystified by her apparent involvement in the sinful ways of Nether Moynton.
(from BBC South and West)
(Colour)
Introduced by John Cleese
A choice of comedy scenes from BBC2 shows during 1969 including
Marty
with Marty Feldman, John Junkin, Roland MacLeod, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Mary Miller
Where Was Spring?
with Eleanor Bron, John Fortune
Cage Me a Leacock
with Bernard Braden
Q5
with Spike Milligan, John Bluthal
Barry Humphries' Scandals
with Barry Humphries, Irene Richmond
The World of Beachcomber
with Spike Milligan
Broaden Your Mind
with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Roland MacLeod, Nicholas McArdle, Yutte Stensgaard
(Colour)
A Musical Tribute to Noel Coward from Georgia Brown, Ian Carmichael, Ray Davis, Nicky Henson, Cheryl Kennedy and from special guests Ronnie Barker, Dora Bryan, Ronnie Corbett, Clive Dunn, Danny La Rue, John Le Mesurier, Arthur Lowe, Kenneth More, Vanessa Redgrave
(Dora Bryan is appearing in 'The Dora Bryan Show' at The King's Theatre, Glasgow)
(Colour)
(Colour)
by Stella Gibbons
Dramatised in three parts by David Turner
Starring Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, Sarah Badel
Flora Poste, fascinated by the little she knows of the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, considers visiting them.
(Colour)
at the Ronnie Scott Club
A special preview of a new series to be seen in the New Year featuring many of the top jazz artists who recently visited Britain for Jazz Expo 69.
Ronnie Scott introduces:
The Clarke-Boland Big Band
'Pentonville'
Guitar Workshop
featuring Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, Grant Green
'Blue Mist'
The Miles Davis Quintet
'Free Choice'
The Stephane Grappelly-Teddy Wilson Quartet
'Tangerine'
Sarah Vaughan and her Trio
'Passing Strangers'
The Charlie Shavers Quartet
'Nature Boy'
The Oscar Peterson Trio
'Blues Etude'
The Gary Burton Quartet
'Portsmouth Figurations'
The Stars of Faith
'We shall be changed'
Buddy Rich and his Orchestra
'Greensleeves'
(Colour)
starring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr
A young couple, both intending to marry millionaires, fall in love on a luxury liner but agree to separate for six months before getting married.
(Colour)
(Colour)
