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Now to find gay paper and string
For wrapping all those presents in
Story: 'The Parcel of Pieces' written and illustrated by John Styles
Guest storyteller John Styles

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.15 pm)
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer/Illustrator/Storyteller (The Parcel of Pieces):
John Styles
Presenter:
Carol Chell
Presenter:
Derek Griffiths

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

For 800 years reindeer, which once flourished in the Highlands of Scotland, were not seen in this country. It tooK Mikel Utsi, a Laplander, to reintroduce them.
In this week's programme he tells of the trials and tribulations of his efforts during the past 20 years.

(Colour)

Contributors

Presenter:
Mikel Utsi
Producer:
Bridget Winter

Tonight's film in this season of British films by some of the distinguished directors and writers who brought a new style to the cinema in the 60s
Starring Tom Courtenay
with Mogens Wieth, Ronald Fraser, James Maxwell, Ralph Michael

Did Private Potter really have a vision in which he saw God, or was it merely an alibi for his cowardice in the face of action? Confronted with an unprecedented case, his Commanding Officer, although reluctant to take court-martial proceedings, is in an unenviable position.
Following his appearance in Billy Liar earlier in this season, Tom Courtenay gives another fine, and contrasted, performance.
(Christmas Films: pages 14-15)

Contributors

Director:
Casper Wrede
Private Potter:
Tom Courtenay
Yannis:
Mogens Wieth
Doctor:
Ronald Fraser
Lt-Col Gunyon:
James Maxwell
Padre:
Ralph Michael
Brigadier:
Brewster Mason
Captain Knowles:
Eric Thompson
Major Sims:
John Graham
Captain Patterson:
Frank Finlay
Cpl Lamb:
Harry Landis
Private Robertson:
Michael Coles
Major Reid:
Jeremy Geldt

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