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Boris Karloff narrates this unusual Christmas cartoon film.
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A film about David Shepherd

Once rejected as a student without talent, David Shepherd has since become one of England's most successful painters.
Widely travelled, his jet-age routine is dominated by his passion for giants - in particular elephants and steam locomotives.

(First shown in The World About Us)
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Music by Ferdinand Herold
freely adapted and arranged by John Lanchbery
starring Merle Park and David Blair
From the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Frederick Ashton's hilarious ballet about the girl who loved the boy next door despite her mother's grander plans.

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, led by Charles Taylor conducted by John Lanchbery
Act 1 Scene 1: The farmyard
Scene 2: The cornfield
Act 2: The interior of the farmhouse

(Merle's mince pies: page 4)
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A Christmas Day programme in which The Queen speaks to the Commonwealth.
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Written by Richard Wade
starring Dudley Foster as Humphrey Hastings and Elvi Hale as his wife Constance
An Edwardian After-Dinner Christmas Entertainment

This evening we invite you to the dress rehearsal of a magical entertainment which the Hastings family hope to have ready by the time their neighbours arrive.
They call their show The Grand Illusion. But you will see the workings of the illusions, how the head floats and the fingers tap, and you can, if you have both the surplus furniture and the energy of a Humphrey Hastings, make all the magic in your own living room and become yourself an after-dinner entertainer.

(Magic with Foster: page 5)
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Starring Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette

Newly commissioned US Cavalry Second Lieutenant Matthew Hazard is posted to a desolate outpost on the Mexican border, where he volunteers to persuade the Indians to stop fighting and settle on a reservation.
(Christmas Films: pages 14-15)
(The Barretts of Wimpole Street at 7.25)
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Double Feature: Part 2
Starring Jennifer Jones, John Gielgud
with Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna

The tyranny of Elizabeth Barrett's cruel and embittered father dominates the family's home in London's Wimpole Street. A meeting with the poet Robert Browning brings love and eventual happiness to Elizabeth.
(Christmas Films: pages 14-15)
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with Rosemary Leach as Mother
('Days filled with sun...': pp 10-11)
(Trevor Bannister is in "Move Over Mrs Markham" the the Vaudeville Theatre, London)
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National Folk Ballet of Korea
Unique entertainment from the enchanting young Korean dancers who stole the show at the Royal Variety Performance.
Introduced by Geoffrey Wheeler
(Televised by arrangement with MAM)
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and Weather
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Starring 'Tippi' Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker, Martin Gabel, Louise Latham

Hitchcock's "Marnie", like "Psycho", explores the strange world of the unconscious mind and gives 'Tippi' Hedren, star of "The Birds", the role of the beautiful kleptomaniac whose passions are aroused by thunderstorms and the colour red.
Sean Connery plays the wealthy publisher, fascinated by criminal behaviour in animals, who traps Marnie, the compulsive thief, and embarks on an unusual therapy.
(Christmas Films: pages 14-15)
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