Now to clear away and sweep
And hide the secrets - musn't peep
Today: 'The Little Drummer Boy,' by Ezra Jack Keats
(Repeated on BBC1 at 3.45 pm)
(Colour)
(Colour)
Starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel
with Joe E. Brown, Marge and Gower Champion
Songs like 'Ol' Man River' helped to make Show Boat one of the most enduring of all musicals.
(Christmas Films: pages 14-15)
(Colour)
by Mrs Gaskell
Dramatised in six parts by Michael Voysey
(Shown last Sunday)
(Colour)
and Weather
(Colour)
Topical arts magazine
Introduced by David Jones
A look at children, childhood and the Christmas Season
With Alan Bennett telling a Christmas story
Keith Dewhurst, playwright and journalist, visiting the Edinburgh Museum of Childhood and looking at a collection of extraordinary objects - including a medicinal powder for 'bad lads'!
Eric Porter and Dorothy Tutin in this year's Peter Pan. For years now, since J.M. Barrie created the best boy's role any actress could hope to play, distinguished stars of film and theatre have looked forward to reincarnating his hero, Peter Pan, and his villain, Captain Hook, on the Christmas stage.
Review takes a look at how 'Soames Forsyte' becomes Hook, Dorothy Tutin learns to fly, and Barrie himself made the 'Never Never Land' from Kensington Gardens - his London home.
John Halas, cartoon-maker, and Sam Wanamaker, actor and director, talking to the young winners of the Review Children's Animated Film Competition launched earlier this year. Tonight we see the winning entries and hear how children dealt on film with the theme they were given - how they saw the future.
(David Jones is a member of the RSC)
(Colour)
This listing contains language that some may find offensive.
Lotte Reiniger's famous silhouettes bring a fresh and colourful vitality to the familiar story of the three kings on their journey to Bethlehem.
Featuring carols sung by the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
(Colour)
(Colour)
Starring Maureen O'Hara, John Payne and Edmund Gwenn
Is there really a Santa Claus? This solemn question is treated with plenty of humour in a heart-warming comedy set in New York's famous department store, Macy's.
(Christmas Films: pages 14-15)
