Now here's circuses and shows
With kings and queens in crowns and robes
Today's story: 'The King Who Liked Mince Pies' by Julia Michaels
Guest story-teller Colin Jeavons
(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)
with Peter Woods; Weather
(Colour)
From Paris
Featuring the most successful tournament competitors of 1971: Stan Smith, Ilie Nastase, Jan Kodes, Zeljko Franulovic, Cliff Richey, Pierre Barthes and Clark Graebner
Throughout 1971 in a series of major championships, including Wimbledon, the world's greatest tennis players have been battling for points in the Pepsi Grand Prix Championship table.
In this climax to the 1971 tennis season the top seven in the table played each other in a Round Robin Masters Final for prize money totalling $50,000.
Harry Carpenter in the Coubertin Stadium in Paris introduces the first programme in a series featuring the Tournament's outstanding matches which are decided over three tie-breaker sets.
Producer A.P. Wilkinson in collaboration with the French Television Service
(Colour)
A Wheelbase Special
Why are 18 Australians in every 100 now buying a car from Japan? Why does an empty continent have traffic jams? Why, despite strict speed limits and compulsory seat belts, do Australians have three times as many road deaths as the English?
Gordon Wilkins joins BOAC'S inaugural Jumbo jet flight to Sydney to introduce a special Christmas edition on the motoring scene in Australia.
With Jack Brabham, Dr Michael Henderson and Milton Morris, Minister of Transport, New South Wales
(Colour)
by Dennis Potter
Starring Frank Finlay as Casanova
with Norman Rossington as Lorenzo, Graham Crowden as Feldkirchner, Gillian Hills as Caroline
At the age of 73, Casanova is librarian at the court of a Czech count and sees his life there as yet another form of imprisonment. Only Caroline, the count's mistress, provides him with any distraction.
(Colour)
Presented by Rene Cutforth
The Lucy Ring was probably the most effective espionage network of the Second World War. It was Russian and it operated in Switzerland. Through this network, Stalin was told the date of the German invasion of Russia - but he didn't believe it. Only after Hitler invaded on the day Lucy said he would, did Stalin take notice and fight the war largely on the contents of Lucy's messages. But who was Lucy? Where did the flow of incredible top secret German information come from? And what were the coding techniques used by the Russians to keep their information secret?
(Colour)
(Colour)
Richard Williams with the news and the sounds of today's music. Alexis Korner, Gerry Rafferty
(Christmas Sounds: page 19)
(Colour)
