with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather on 2
A cartoon version of CHARLES DICKENS'S story in the style of the original illustrations by ' Phiz
Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave with the voices of and Producer and director Richard WILLIAMS
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From the fruits and nuts In the early dawn stocking to the after-math of Boxing Day, food is at the heart of the English Christmas. Traditionally it is the one time in the year that everyone unbuttons and eats his fill. A look at Christmas fare in town and country. Introduced by Derek Cooper
Producer ANDREW SNELL. BBC Manchester
A celebration of John Betjeman
Few writers in our time have gained a wider audience than the Poet Laureate SIR JOHN BETJEMAN. This special programme includes excerpts from some of Sir John's most enjoyable television programmes over the past 20 years, and brings together a number of close friends who talk with affection of a much loved enthusiast whose ' basic honesty', as Philip Larkin puts it, ' ensures that he will always be taken seriously '. with Sir Osbert Lancaster
John Sparrow , Philip Larkin Prunella Scales , Judi Dench and Patrick Garland
Film editor ROBIN SCALES
Producer MARGARET MCCALL
or the story of The Magic Lantern Horizon presents a nostalgic, colourful Christmas entertainment. Laughter, joy. sadness: all the wisdom of centuries; riddles that have puzzled kings; angels, witches, pirates, sirens - they are all in the magic box of the itinerant Magic Lantern Showman.
Editor R. w. REID. Producers
TOM SCOTT ROBSON , ROBERT VAS
A series of six plays by FREDERIC RAPHAEL 4: A Country Life
1964: Alan Parks , now a notorious television interviewer, decides to visit the country with his wife Barbara. They descend on their old Cambridge friends Joyce and Dan Bradley - disrupting their quiet lives.
Best dialogue on television (DAILY EXPRESS) Producer MARK SHIVAS
Director waris HUSSEIN
with The Salvation Army Introduced by RAY MOORE featuring
THE INTERNATIONAL STAFF BAND
OF THE SALVATION ARMY conducted by RAY BOWES
THE LONDON SALVATION ARMY CHORUS chorusmaster RAY STEADMAN-ALLEN
THE NORWICH CITADEL SINGING
COMPANY, directed by BERYL MANN and timbrels and trombone ensemble
From the Main Exhibition Hall of the Commonwealth Institute in London and from the elegant Sunbury Court by the Thames in Middlesex; over 400 singers and musicians of the Salvation Army join together to sing and play music for Christmas.
Sound GRAHAM HAINES
Lighting JOHN MASON SAM BRANTER Producer KF.N GRIFFIN
(Singing for Glory 1976, favourite carob sunn bu Salvation Armu members, tomorrow, R4, 8.45 pm, not Wales)
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by ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS: part 2
PAUL SCOFIELD reads
The Keeper of the Midnight Gate by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN
