7 December 1941: Japan's attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor.
Festive fun.
It's Christmas!
Who's telling fibs?
News stories.
From turkey to trifle, Richard E Grant counts down the top 11.
Producer Helen Foulkes
Stunning table decorations and seasonal houseplants. See yesterday's choice, shown yesterday at 8pm Signed rpt Wed 28
December at 3.55am on BBC1
Michael Powell and Emeric
Pressburger's classic drama, which won an Oscar for its lush cinematography. Deborah Kerr stars as one of five nuns whose efforts to set up a Himalayan mission are threatened by secret passions. Review page 71.
(1946, U) Powell and Pressburqer's The Red Shoes is on Thursday 29 December at 12.20pm
Happy Returns. The staff plan a surprise for young Mr Grace.
Writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft
(RXS)
★★★★★ Classic mystery with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Is the family seat of the Baskervilles - an eerie mansion on Dartmoor - cursed? Sherlock Holmes investigates. Review page 71. Director Sidney Lanfield (1939, PG)
(BWXS) BBC4's Conan Doyle season begins with The Lost World at 8pm; The Master Blackmailer Thu 29 December at 6.15pm on BBC2
Travelling by rail, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train, and turns to her friend Jane Marple (Joan Hickson) for advice.
(At Bertrams Hotel, Holiday Tuesday 2.55pm)
It's a much loved tradition that, for many, heralds the true start of Christmas: the opening verse of Once in Royal David's City, angelically sung by a chorister of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. In this evocative service, the story of the Nativity is told through the words of the Bible and poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Richard Crashaw and Sister Mary Francis. Carols include Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; In the Bleak Midwinter, and God Rest Ve Merry, Gentlemen. Director David Kremer ; Producer James Whitbourn A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, from King's College, is today at 3pm on Radio 4 and tomorrow at 5pm on Radio 3
Got a tin of cigarette cards gathering dust at home? Want to know what they're worth? Now's the chance to find out as Paul Martin visits Bristol.
Whether wrapping presents or tearing up the dance floor, there's something for everyone in this moreish selection box of Christmas classics and party tunes. Featuring Slade, the Pretenders, the Pogues, Jackie Wilson , Bing Crosby , Wizzard, Wham!, the Darkness, John Lennon , Cliff Richard , Bros, KT Tunstall, Abba, Queen, the Rolling Stones, T-Rex, U2 and Kylie. Plus new music from Green Day and Bruce Springsteen. Producer Mark Hagen Repeated at 12.20am
Plans are afoot to erect London's largest ice rink in front of the Victorian Temperate House at the Royal Botanic Gardens, not to mention the tallest
Christmas tree after Trafalgar Square. Elsewhere, the ultimate boy's toy is used to drain Kew's mucky lake, and a quest for orchids takes a botanist to, appropriately enough, Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean. Alan Titchmarsh narrates.
Director/Producer Roger Huyton BBC Gardener of the Year is on Thursday 29 December at 8pm
Harold plans to spend Christmas in sunny Spain, leaving his cantankerous dad Albert to fend for himself in an old folks' home - all he needs to do now is tell him.
(First shown on Christmas Eve 1973)
Arena profiles Galton and Simpon tomorrow at 6.30pm, followed by another episode of Steptoe and Son at 9.30pm
Charlotte Church, Chas 'n' Dave and Una Stubbs are among the guests as stroppy teen Lauren auditions for Fame Academy and prissy Derek Faye is appalled by his panto part. See last Tuesday's choice.
Shown on Tuesday 20 December at 9pm Tate.... and bile: page 24
Shown at 7.30pm
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