Today's story is 'Once Upon a Christmas Tree...' the second of three stories by Larry Parker
(Repeated on BBC1 and BBC Wales at 4.20 pm)
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with Peter Woods reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
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They have treasured memories of other times - firm views about present times.
In the race for today few of us spare enough time to listen-even to learn - from people who also know about yesterday, as they talk to Man Alive reporters.
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A weekly programme which focuses on people and the situations which shape their lives
Reporters Jim Douglas Henry, Jeremy James, Jeanne La Chard, Gillian Strickland, Desmond Wilcox, Harold Williamson

This week: Alone
At this time of the year loneliness can be particularly painful. Loneliness isn't something that affects just the poor; or the old; or the deserted. You can be alone in the middle of a noisy family; surrounded by work colleagues; in a crowd of friends. Money, youth, and success aren't necessarily any protection. Christmas and New Year make it all seem worse -almost too much to live through. In our increasingly crowded and increasingly noisy society the problem of loneliness is also increasing-Why? And what should we do?

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by Arnold Bennett
Dramatised by Gerald Savory
[Starring] Stephan Chase as Louis, Adrienne Frank as Rachel

£1,000 disappears from Mrs Maldon's house the night that her two nephews Louis and Julian come to dinner.
Louis is an untrustworthy charmer. Julian is off to South Africa the next day -have one or both taken the money?

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The bizarre nature of Joe Orton's writing discussed by actors Richard Attenborough, Hywel Bennett, Lee Remick, Milo O'Shea, director Silvio Narizzano and producer Arthur Lewis, during the filming of "Loot" which opens tomorrow in London.
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