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Today's story: 'King John's Christmas,' by A.A. Milne
Presenters this week Miranda Connell, Lionel Morton
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The 1971 International Everest Expedition was a brave venture, 24 climbers from 12 different countries tackling the world's highest mountain by its two most difficult routes.
When the attempt was eventually called off seven of the climbers had walked out, 11 had been sent home with severe illness, and one - Major Harsh Bahuguna - was dead.
What did emerge from the physical discomfort and emotional disharmony was this film, one of the most highly-praised documentaries of 1971. 'A brilliant, a candid, often icily beautiful, always humanely dramatic film,' said The Daily Telegraph.
Taking themselves and their equipment to greater heights than ever before, the film crew recorded the optimistic start, with world-class mountaineers and army of porters, the growing disenchantment and final disillusion.
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The enchanted tale of four children who defy the spells of an evil magician and restore the sun to its rightful place in the heavens.
A cartoon film from SRC
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Engelbert Humperdinck's tuneful and delightful opera, loved by children and adults alike, is based on a Grimm fairy tale.
Hansel and Gretel are scolded by their mother for being lazy and are sent out into the woods to gather strawberries for supper. They get lost and eventually find a strange house made of candy. They start to eat it, not knowing it belongs to a wicked witch who likes to bake children in her magic oven and turn them into gingerbread.
"The glory of the production is Maureen Forrester's portrayal of the Witch, a generous, marvellous comic performance... the cameras have made a ruddy marvel of the witch's broom flight" (Toronto Telegram)
Canadian Children's Opera Chorus
National Ballet of Canada
Toronto Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Mario Bernardi
A CBC production made in association with BBC/NET
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and Weather
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Is the world ready for a self-raising bowler hat? Or an edible spoon? Or even a pair of braces for escaping from burning buildings? The infinite variety of man's inventiveness is revealed in tonight's programme, which includes some of the more unusual inventions patented in Britain and America over the last 100 years.
Most of the inventions have been specially constructed for the first time for this programme and will be tested out to see if they work the way the inventors intended. Also described is the 500-year saga of man's still-continuing attempts to invent and build a successful perpetual motion machine.
Presented by Kenneth Robinson
With Heinz Wolff, Janet Webb, Carole Allen, Christopher Serle, Jonathan Webb
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by Saul Bellow
[Starring] Sam Wanamaker as Solomon Ithimar, PhD, Miriam Karlin as Marcella Vankuchen
'According to certain ideas in the world there's nothing to me.' But, for Iggy, there is something extraordinary about Marcella. Something which has haunted him for 40 years.
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A Western adventure series with Hannibal Heyes and Jed 'Kid' Curry two of the roughest, toughest - nicest and kindest - outlaws who ever rode the West
Starring Pete Duel as Smith and Ben Murphy as Jones
with guest stars Sally Field, Don Ameche, Rudy Vallee and Keenan Wynn
No. Not that Clementine. And although this one may be a darling she does not exactly endear herself to Smith and Jones...
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A duel of words and wit between Patrick Campbell, Margaret Tyzack, Francis Matthews and Frank Muir, Angela Browne, Richard Briers
Referee Robert Robinson
(from Manchester)
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Starring Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire, Jean Peters, Louis Jourdan, Rossano Brazzi
Rome is the real star of this romantic story about three American girls who go to Italy in search of love. The men they meet include European heart-throbs Rossano Brazzi and Louis Jourdan.
(Christmas Films: pages 14-15)
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