The Unanswered Question 2: Musical Syntax
Leonard Bernstein pursues further comparisons between language and music and digs beneath the surface to uncover the ' deep structure' of music. The point is made effectively and humorously by the performance of a ' prose ' version of part of Mozart's Symphony No 40 specially written by LEONARD BERNSTEIN and performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
The most brilliant, persuasive and stimulating music series we have yet seen in this country, a tour de force which instructed, bothered and moved many who watched. (NEW REVIEW) An AMBERSON VIDEO PRODUCTION recorded by WGBM Boston
(Programme 3 is tomorrow at 12.15 pm)

A feature film starring
David Niven , Robert Newton Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine
Phileas Fogg , a member of the Reform Club, makes a £20,000 wager with his fellow clubmen that he will go round the world in 80 days ...
Screenplay by s. j. PERELMAN , JAMES POE and JOHN FARROW from the novel by JULES VERNE.
Producer MICHAEL TODD
Director MICHAEL ANDERSON. Films: pp 16-17

A puppet film about the Prince who is turned into a nutcracker by the evil Mouse Queen, based on the story by E. T. A. HOFFMAN , with music from TCHAIKOVSKY'S Casse Noisette.
Voice of Drosselmeyer GEOFFREY BAYLDON
Narration KATHRYN HARRIES
Animation BURA AND HARDWICK Puppets and direction ALAN PLATT
Producer ELIZABETH BENNETT

Christmas is Coming starring Brian Cant with Julie Stevens, Tony Robinson, Anita Dobson, Jonathan Cohen and the Play Away Band
Executive producer CYNTHIA FELGATE
Producer ANN REAY
Director JUDY WHITFIELD
A stage version of Play Away, presented by BBC Enterprises, is running at Riverside Studios, London W6, until 7 Jan

A fairytale opera by ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
Adapted by ADELHEID WETTE from the Grimm Brothers' version of the traditional tale and sung in a translation by NORMAN KELLEY starring
Ann Howard as the Witch
Elizabeth Connell as the Mother Benjamin Luxon as the Father with Patricia Parker as Hansel Elizabeth Gale as Gretel
An enchanting television version of Humperdinck's opera in which Hansel and Gretel are lost in a wood, terrorised by flying hobgoblins, befriended by a Sandman and transported down a magic river to the Land of Cobwebs and Sugar Ice, where the Witch ensnares them ...
David Lloyd-Jones conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra leader CARL PINI
Children from Whitgift School, Dr Challoner's Grammar School and Finchley Children's Music Group Hansel and Gretel is full of wonderful visual ideas, enough to enchant any child (DAILY EXPRESS) ... a racishingly beautiful production
(DAILY TELEGRAPH)
Associate conductor ANTHONY HOSE Choreographer BOB HOWE Designer KEN SHARP
Producer BRIAN LARGE

Introduced by James Cameron
Forty years ago you almost certainly wouldn't have been sitting down to an evening of Christmas television. But you might have been looking forward to an evening of home cinema - and just possibly you might even have been making your own film for Christmas. Quite a few people did and their home-movies can make the Christmases of the 20s and 30s live again today, with all their tin-plate toys, uncles and aunts, seasonable snowfalls and home-made plum puddings.
Executive producer DAVID COLLISON Produced by PAUL JORDAN

Three Nashville entertainers
Ronnie Prophet, Barbara Fairchild and Larry Gatlin get together at The Snape Maltings to sing a variety of Country Music songs especially for the Christmas holiday.
Musical accompaniment by THE GATLIN BROTHERS BAND and THE BILL CLARKE 5
Director RICK GARDNER Producer DOUGLAS HESPE

Glen Campbell is the host for this special programme starring one of America's most remarkable and dynamic young magicians, whose theme is Nothing is Impossible. Doug Henning performs every kind of magic, from a baffling cigarette-paper illusion to walking through a solid brick wall. Guest star Sandy Duncan
Produced and directed by WALTER C. MILLER

Weather

More zany comedy from Mike Harding and seasonal songs from Fivepenny Piece in the festive surroundings of Stockport's Poco-a-Poco Theatre Club.
Sound ALAN FOX
Lighting JOHN CROWTHER Producer BARRY BEVINS BBC Manchester

This dazzling international virtuoso has just completed a fantastically exciting and successful year-worldwide concert appearances - Annie's Song at the top of the popular record charts, and the publication of his autobiography. Tonight he is joined by some friends for a celebratory musical evening.
His special guests John Williams and Mary O'Hara also introducing
The Cambridge Buskers Members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra leader BARRY GRIFFITHS conducted by David Measham
Sound PETER ROSE
Lighting KEN MACGREGOR Designer MARTIN COLLINS
Production YVONNE LITTLEWOOD

The first of a special holiday season of classic musical comedies starring
Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers
Peter J. Peters , alias Petrov the ballet dancer, falls madly in love with comedy star Linda Keene. Despite complications naturally all ends happily, after a comic and tuneful romance.
and HARRIET HOCTOR
Screenplay by ALLAN SCOTT and ERNEST PAGANO
Music and lyrics by GEORGE and IRA GERSHWIN
Produced by PANDRO S. BERMAN Director MARK SANDRICH
. Films: pages 16-17

The second of five horror stories on the theme of childhood.
Read by Tom Baker.
Tonight: The Photograph by Nigel Kneale.