Story: The Little Shepherd Boy by PEGGY BLAKELEY
Illustrated by BUNSHU IGUCH Presenters Sarah Long Stuart McGugan
Elizabeth Millbank
Book, Play School: Ready to Play, £1.50, from bookshops; Play On record (REC 332), cassette (zcm 332), Bang on a Drum, songs from Play School and Play Away, record (REC 242) or cassette (MRMC 004), from record shops

What was myrrh? How do you swaddle a baby? How did Mary and Joseph get to Bethlehem? Watch visits the Holy Land to find out, and retells the Christmas story with puppets and songs.

The feature film starring Vanessa Redgrave as Mary, Queen of Scots Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I

Two of Britain's most talented and powerful actresses play the central characters in the story of the ruthless struggle for power that was to end in the death of Mary Stuart and the triumph of Elizabeth Tudor. Vanessa Redgrave, as the ill-fated Mary, and Glenda Jackson, as Elizabeth, head a star-studded cast in this spectacular film.
Films: pages 16-17

with The Goldsmiths Choral Union conducted by Brian Wright
Recorded highlights of a concert from the Royal Albert Hall , London, attended by the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Mrs Margaret Thatcher , MP, in which carols for choir and audience are led by a choir which came into existence nearly 50 years ago at Goldsmiths College in London as a small choral evening class.
Special guest James Galway with PHILLIP MOLL (piano) Choir accompaniment by ANTHONY SAUNDERS and ROGER VIGNOLES (pianos)
CHRISTOPHER BOWERS BROADBENT (organ) and ROBERT HOWES (percussion)
Introduced by Richard Baker
Lighting BERT OATEN Sound GRAHAM HAINES Producer KEN GRIFFIN

A full-length animated feature continuing our festive season of films celebrating the most famous pop group of them all. starring
The Beatles
In the peaceful Kingdom of Pepperland the citizens are enjoying a concert by Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band when they are suddenly attacked by the Blue Meanies. Old Fred sets off in the Yellow Submarine to get help, and ends up in Liverpool, where he recruits The Beatles.
With the voices of JOHN CLIVE
GEOFFREY HUGHES , PAUL ANGELUS DICK EMERY and LANCE PERCIVAL
Directed by GEORGE DUNNING Films: pages 16-17

including a news summary with sub-titles for the hard-of-hearing, followed by Weather

by WALLY K. DALY
Music by JIM PARKER
The hit musical Nativity Play first produced by WENDY TOYE and designed by PETER WHITEMAN for the Chichester Festival Theatre and Lighting CLIVE THOMAS. Script editor BRENDA REID. Designer KEN SHARP Technical director JOHN GORMAN
Producer INNES LLOYD. Production devised and directed by WENDY TOYE

A filmed record of the celebrated Israeli violinist Itzhak Perlman in a memorable performance of Bach's D Minor Partita at a BBC Radio lunchtime concert in St John 's Smith Square, London. The Partita includes the famous Chaconne, Bach's virtuoso masterpiece for unaccompanied violin. Introduced for the radio audience by PATRICIA HUGHES
Film editor PETER HEELAS
Directed by CHRISTOPHER NUPEM Produced by ALLEGRO FILMS

A live programme of Christmas music. Eight nations brought together by that man-made star, the communications satellite, join in a global concert on Christmas Eve. from The Church of the Nativity. Bethlehem; The Monastery of Heiligenkreuz, Austria; The Mennonite Children's Choir, Canada; Silvacane Abbey, France; Lake Tekapo , New Zealand; The Arctic Cathedral, Norway; The Mormon Tabernacle, USA; Trinity Chapel in Canterbury Cathedral.
Narration written by CHRISTOPHER FRY. Spoken by CLAIRE BLOOM and TOM FLEMING
Associate producer NOBLE WILSON Producer JOHN VERNON

Weather

A special In Concert performance from The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, starring Alan Price , his singers and musicians, and featuring such hits as ' Don't Stop the Carnival', ' Lucky Man ' and ' The Jarrow Song
Producer PETER RIDSALE SCOTT
Director JOHNNIE STEWART. BBC Manchester

starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds with Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell, Cyd Charisse
The song-and-dance man who becomes first a stunt man and then a musical star was a role tailor-made for Gene Kelly in this satirical, tuneful and affectionate story of Holly-wood grappling with the problem of 'talkies'. The songs include 'All I Do is Dream of You', 'Make 'em Laugh', 'You are my Lucky Star', and, of course, the title song.
Screenplay by ADOLPH GREEN, BETTY COMDEN Produced by ARTHUR FREED
Directed by GENE KELLY, STANLEY DONEN Films: pages 16-17