The first in a season of classic films for the holiday featuring historical adventure and romance. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
One of the greatest of all Hollywood epics, Cleopatra is the story of the life and times of the famous Queen of the Nile. Under Mankiewicz's direction, the film emerges as a dazzling spectacle, with Elizabeth Taylor never more beautiful as the most famous femme fatale of all time.
Screenplay by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, RANALD MACDOUGALL and SIDNEY BUCHMAN
Based on histories by PLUTARCH, SUETONIUS, APPIAN, other sources and The Life and Times of Cleopatra by C.C.M. FRANZERO
Produced by WALTER WANGER
Directed by JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ
Films: pages 16-17
(Part 2 tomorrow at 3.25 pm)

The Play Away Carol Concert
Brian Cant and Jonathan Cohen present' Christmas is Coming ' from the Guildhall, Leicester with MARGARET SAVAGE, VICTY SILVA PETER OLSEN , CO-OPERATION children from schools in the city of Leicester and THE PLAY AWAY BAND
Musical director JONATHAN COHEN
Producer ANN REAY. Director JOHN SMITH

Decade
Horizon takes a final look over its shoulder at the last ten years.
Your guide Gordon Rattray Taylor

The last in the present series Something Else from Glasgow
Tonight's show has been master-minded by and stars The Glasgow Youth Theatre, with music from The Skids and The Revillos.
We see a revolutionary thing to do with a coke can, there's a fab wee story about the perils of a pencil skirt and there's plenty of muscle in the shape of some of the city's bouncers.
Made with the help of the COMMUNITY PROGRAMME UNIT

The last of 15 programmes Christmas at St David's

Continuing our festive season of films celebrating the most famous pop group of them all. starring The Beatles with Leo MeKern , Eleanor Bron Victor Spinetti , Roy Kinnear
Our four heroes get mixed up in some crazy adventures as they are pursued round the world by a mysterious Eastern sect. A dazzling and colourful entertainment produced in 1965 when Beatlemania was at its height.
Screenplay by MARC BEHM . CHARLES WOOD Produced by WALTER SHENSON
Directed by RICHARD LESTER. Films: pp 16-17

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starring Stan Laurel , Oliver Hardy Charley Chase and Buster Keaton A hilarious look at four of the cinema's great laughter-makers from the silent era.
We start with LAUREL AND HARDY'S early solo performances, recall some of their funniest moments together, take a look at another popular Hal Roach comic, CHARLEY CHASE, and end with the immortal BUSTER KEATON in scenes from one of his great films, Seven Chances. Narrator JAY JACKSON
Music MANNY ALBAN
Written and produced by ROBERT YOUNGSON Films: pages 16-17

A gala evening for Christmas 1979 from the Royal Hall at Harrogate with Dr Evadne Hinge Dame Hilda Bracket and THE STACKTON TRESSEL CHOIR
AND ENSEMBLE
Introduced by Corbet Woodall
Dr Hinge and Dame Hilda present a glittering gala of music including works by Verdi, Gilbert and Sullivan and Noel Coward.
Designer JOHN COLEMAN
Director HAZEL LEWTHWAITE
Producer PETER RIDSDALE SCOTT BBC Manchester

Hinge and Bracket (aka George Logan and Patrick Fyffe) present a musical evening with the Stackton Tressel Chorus. Show more

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Starring Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson
The sailor on shore leave was a favourite role for Gene Kelly, and in this famous musical the town he hits is Hollywood. Contributing to the spectacle are singing star Kathryn Grayson, pianist Jose Iturbi, and, in one of the high spots of the film, the immortal cartoon characters Tom and Jerry who dance with Gene Kelly.
Films: pages 16-17