Now it's time to deck the tree
With snow and sparkling lights to see
Today's story: "The Christmas Tree" by Nancy Quayle
Presenters this week Carol Chell, Derek Griffiths
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
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with Peter Woods
Weather
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A Western adventure series with Hannibal Heyes and Jed 'Kid' Curry
starring Peter Duel as Smith and Ben Murphy as Jones
with guest stars J.D. Cannon, Jane Merrow, Jane Wyatt
Gallant as always, Smith and Jones stop and help two nuns whose wagon has broken down. But our knights of the trail might just have kept on riding - at a gallop - if they had only known that this simple act of kindness was going to lead them into just the kind of trouble they had been trying to avoid...
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A duel of words and wit between Frank Muir, Angela Browne, Richard Briers and Patrick Campbell, Margaret Tyzack, Francis Matthews
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)
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The story of the submarine
On 8 May 1915 the Cunard liner Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Irish coast. More than half the passengers, mostly American and among them many celebrities, were drowned. A few months earlier the Admiralty had been shocked to learn that a single German U-boat had sunk three British cruisers in a single attack with a loss of 1,400 lives. After being the dream of inventors for 2,000 years, the submarine had come into its own.
With rare historic film and exclusive film taken on one of the Royal Navy's nuclear submarines, tonight's Horizon traces the development of this weapon, and asks how well the navies have grasped this new technology. With the growth of Russian naval power and the threat of us withdrawal from Europe, what role does the Royal Navy see for its nuclear-powered submarines?
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by Robin Smyth
[Starring] Daphne Slater as Miss Grant, Terence Longdon as Donald Fell
'Footprints, that's all we are. And one day the unstoppable sea will wash us away forever.'
(Terence Longdon is in 'Suddenly at Home' at the Fortune Theatre, London)
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