Diamonds in the Sky.
Professor Chris Kitchin joins Patrick Moore to discuss the phenomenon of white dwarf stars. Shown last Sunday on BBC1

Classic love story starring
Ronald Colman , Greer Garson
1918: escapingfrom an asylum, soldier with amnesia finds his way into town and meets Paula, who christens him "Smithy" and falls in love. Their life together is blissfully happy until he goes to Liverpool - and doesn't return.
Director Mervyn LeRoy (1942)
Black and white ..............................
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Another chance to see the result of the viewers' voteforthe 1997 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. With Desmond Lynam , Steve Rider and Sue Barker.
Executive producer Malcolm Kemp ; Editor Dave Gordon Shown last Sunday BBC1 Stereo Subtitled457

The latest news of the third leg, which takes crews from Fremantle to Sydney.
With Steve Rider , Richard Simmonds and Fenella George.

Reviews include Spiceworld- the Movie. Shown last Monday on BBC1
Films of the Yearwith Barry Norman is on Monday 29 December at 10.35pm

Rory McGrath and US country singer
Sara Evans present the ceremonyfrom Birmingham's International Convention Centre that honours the best British and international country performers.
Among the artistes featured are Dolly
Parton, Vince Gill , Daniel O'Donnell ,
Crystal Gayle , Billy Ray Cyrus and Glen Campbell , with music from the Cheap Seats, Adam Cauldwell , Phil Pope 's Death by Country and, from America, Kathy Chiavola and Dale Watson. Director David Weir : Producers David Weir and Beverleigh Wildman Stereo..........

Cecil B DeMille's epic drama begins a season of films in tribute to James Stewart who died earlier this year. Also starring Charlton Heston

With a massive three-ring circus about to start a nationwide tour, tensions under the big top are running high.
(1952, U)
(The season of James Stewart films continues with Harvey tomorrow at 1pm)
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Double Take. A business tycoon claims he is being impersonated by a perfect double who is trying to ruin him.
First shown on ITV ............................

Memories from the Top of the Pops archives, plus today's hits. Top of the Pops is on Christmas Day BBC1 at 1.15pm

An enduring legend was created by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai
(showing at 9.10pm) about the building of a bridge across a river by prisoners of war. This film recounts the harrowing story, using the testimony of the Bridge Camp commander Lt Col Toosey, an astonishing correspondence he kept with his Japanese captor after the war, plus eyewitness accounts.
Producer Paul Elston ; Editor Laurence Rees
Repeat Stereo Subtitled .........

The extravagant, exotic images of neon violins and dancinggirls waving huge bananas were the creative hallmark of Busby
Berkeley, a unique figure in the history of American film.
At Warner Bros in the thirties, he was the architect of the elaborate dance numbers in such films as 42nd Street and Gold Diggers of 1933. Unprecedented access to film clips and backstage footage creates a portrait of the complex man who lay behind the inspirational choreographer. Producer Margaret Smilow ; Director
David Thompson A Busby Berkeleyfilm season begins with FootlightParade -Christmas Eve 8.55am

Appearing in music hall aged just nine, Hughie Green made his first film four years later. But it was on the small screen that he made his name. From the fifties until the seventies, hit shows such as Double Your Money, The Sky's the Limit and Opportunity Knocks made him one of the biggest stars to appear on British television.
But, by the late seventies, Green's failure to adapt to new television ideas saw him frozen out. The last in the series reveals the man behind the face of TV entertainment. The series is set to return in the spring.
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Presented by Boris Johnson of The Daily Telegraph.

Justinian - the Last of the Romans. Born a Serbian peasant, Justinian became the last truly great Caesar, ruling the eastern half of the Roman empire from Constantinople for over 40 years. In AD 536, he succeeded in reconquering
"fallen" Rome from the Goths, but his dream of a permanent reunification was to prove elusive. Last in the series.
Directors Phil Grabsky and Peter Nicholson Producer Phil Grabsky BBCBOOK: I.Caesar. price£17.99

Janet Leigh recalls a scene from The Naked Spur, which is showing tomorrow at 2.40pm, in the first of a series in which stars choose favourite moments from
James Stewart 's film career.
Producer Nick Freand Jones Stereo

David Lean 's acclaimed
Second World War drama opens the British at War season. Starring William Holden Alec Guinness , Jack Hawkins
Held in a Japanese PoW camp in Burma, disciplinarian Colonel Nicholson finds himself on a collision course with Colonel
Saito, the camp commander, when orders are given to build an important railroad bridge. Showing in widescreen format.
(1957, PG) Stereo Subtitled.. The season continues on Christmas Eve at
2.30pmwith ReachfortheSky
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Sci-fi thriller starring
Christopher Walken
Natalie Wood , Cliff Robertson
Two scientists achieve a breakthrough with a device that is capable of recording human sensory experiences.
Showing in widescreen format.
Director Douglas Trumbull (1983.15)
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Opening a season of fities sci-fi films. An astronaut returns to Earth impregnated with a creature from outer space that needs human blood to survive.
Director Robert Day (1958, PG)
Black and white The season continues with Invasion of the Saucer Men tomorrow at 1.20am
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