In the bleak midwinter,
What happens to the rain...?
Today's story: 'The Snowy Day' written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats.

The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People by Professor Charles Taylor.

Sounds finish their journey when they reach our ears; but this is not the end of the story, for our ears play strange tricks.
In his final lecture Professor Taylor uses scientific models to explain the miraculous transformation made by our ears and brains. At this final stage, sound waves are transformed into the splendid and emotional experience of musical sound.

with Peter Woods; Weather

The people, the stories and the action behind the one commodity no one can do without - money.
The Money Minder, our up-to-the-minute news feature on the Stock Market, explores and explains the world of bulls, bears and boomlets.

The work of e e cummings ranges from lyric romanticism to barbed political satire. Each poem is designed to please the eye as well as the ear. Sir Alec Guinness and director James Cellan Jones have combined to present cummings's work in all its variety in a way that sharpens the understanding.
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(Next week: Alec Guinness with T.S. Eliot's "Little Gidding")

Topical arts magazine

Space Enough to Sculpt For
Imagine the staid and solemn galleries of the Royal Academy, marked up and let out to the sort of sculpture that creeps, crawls, stretches out into the air - iron bars, steel rods, bits of machinery, sculpture far too big for any ordinary room or gallery!
Burlington House, tomorrow - and the opening of an exhibition based on the idea of 24 contemporary British sculptors.
Edwin Mullins looks at British Sculptors 72.

Tolkien in Oxford
J. R. R. Tolkien, 80 years old this week, retired Oxford don, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit - set books in Europe and Asia, cult books in The States, a craze amongst the young in Britain - so much so that one of the 'underground' pop music centres in London was even called 'The Middle Earth' after the country Tolkien invented.
A repeat showing of a film made in Oxford with Tolkien himself and the students who read him.
(David Jones is a member of the RSC)

Written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, with Tim Brooke-Taylor
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie.
Special guest Freddie Jones
and featuring Jonathan Cecil
with Gilly McIver

They don't go to doctors, they don't smoke or drink - but there's more than that to being a Christian Scientist. It is a way of life and one of its most crucial beliefs is that sin and disease are unreal. In this film they explain their religion which claims to have rediscovered the technique by which the miracles were performed. Reporter, Ruth Brandon

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