Comedy about a feud between two rival cotton mill owners in Lancashire. With Will Fyffe,
Stanley Holloway and Jimmy Hanley. Director Bemard Vorhaus (1937)
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Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire star in the musical comedy that, among some memorable Irving Berlin songs, first had the world "dreaming of a white Christmas". (The remake can be seen tomorrow at 8.50am.) (1942) (B/W)
The last of this week's documentaries. An amusing look at European and American stereotypes of each other. Rpt
Britons who have moved abroad. Today living in Belgium.
Today: Carols rediscovered.
One of the most successful British comedies ever made, starring Kenneth More Two couples taking part in the London-to-Brighton car rally suffer various misadventures when personal rivalries emerge.
Director Henry Cornelius
(1953)
The 4077th is visited by three members of a UN delegation. Rpt
A fond and nostalgic look at baseball.
Animated tale with music from Clannad.
The sporting winners of the year. Rpt Subtitled
Comedy starring Pee-Wee Herman, Kris Kristofferson
Pee-Wee and his faithful talking pig Vance are joined on their wacky farm by an assortment of performers and animals from the circus.
Director Randal Kleiser
(1988)
The choir of King's College Chapel,
Cambridge, celebrates
Christmas with 13 carols interspersed with four
Christmas readings in a service recorded specially for television.
Baritone Paul Robinson and cellist Peter Dixon join the choir for Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on Christmas Carols, and other highlights include the Polish carol Bogoroditse Dyevo(lnfant Holy). The Director of Music is Stephen Cleobury. Producer David Kremer
Executive producer Helen Alexander
The spectacular central desert of Australia is the stage for this year's "animal drama" from
John and Simon King. Inura is a young female dingo struggling to survive in one of the harshest environments on earth. With prey hard to come by, a remarkable relationship develops between the dingoes and the wedge-tail eagles.
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McLaren has everything to play for in the last race of the season. The championship is lost, but a win here will make them the most successful team in Formula 1 history. Director Tony Salmon
A John Gau production for BBCtv
The final programme remembers 1945. Winter brought the worst fuel crisis of the war, so Ruth Mott uses a steamer and cooks rabbit, while Harry Dodson cultivates haricot beans.
Producer Keith Sheather
Bob Geldof and Griff Rhys-Jones are the guests in a last-of-the series, end-of-year special. Producer Colin Swash
A Hat Trick production tor BBCtv
A fantasy combining singing with spectacular dance, both baroque and contemporary. Kiri Te Kanawa performs seven Handel arias which tell the story of the enchantress Alcina and her love for the mortal Ruggiero. Christopher Hogwood conducts the Academy of Ancient Music while dancers interpret the stories. With the Scapino Ballet and Opera Atelier.
Kiri Te Kanawa's Kind of Day: page
Tonight's account of the siege is compiled from the stories of a mixed Bosnian community who refuse to fight each other.
Romance starring Susan Sarandon
James Spader
When yuppie widower Max Baron falls for a 43-year-old waitress, he starts to enjoy life.
Director Luis Mandoki (1990)
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The Treasure of Abbot Thomas A window holds a clue to hidden treasure. With Michael Bryant , Sheila Dunn , Anne Blake ,
Frank Mills , Virginia Balfour , Paul Lavers , John Herrington and Peggy Aitchison. Dramatised by John Bowen , from the story by M R James Producer
Rosemary Hill
Director Lawrence Gordon Clark
A short, dark festive season - Black
Christmas - begins with a horror starring Vincent Price A scientist uses a matter transmitter without realising that a fly is caught in it.
Director Kurt Neumann (1958)
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