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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 2002
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    Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 2002

  BBC1

   6.00am  CBeebies
                   Little Bear  

                   The friends wait for it to snow on 
                   Pudding Hill
 (Repeat)

   6.25am   Teletubbies Countdown to Christmas
                   Day 24 of the calendar (Repeat)
                   followed by 
                   Pingu
                   the little penguin builds a snowman (Repeat)

    6.35am  Bob The Builder 
                   as Spud skates on the duck pond, the ice
                   starts to crack
(Repeat)

    6.45am  Clifford the Big Red Dog 
                   Charley comes to realise that his friends
                   like him for what he is
(Repeat)

    7.00am  CBBC
                   Santa's Special Delivery  

                   Santa is horrified to learn that people
                   no longer believe in him
(Repeat)

     7.25am  Arthur  
                   a big blizzard comes to Elwood City 
                   and Arthur's teacher moves in with him
                 
 (Repeat)

    7.50am  Taz-Mania  
                   a double bill with the Tasmanian devil (Repeat)

    8.10am  Christmas Chucklevision  
                   Paul and Barry help out in Santa's workshop,
                   then Paul receives a ghostly visitation


    8.40am  The Woody Woodpecker Show 
                   Woody's Christmas gifts are stolen. 
                   Chilly seeks warmer climes, and Woody 
                   tries to impress Santa
 (Repeat)

    9.00am  Xchange Xtra 
                    S Club perform their latest single and
                    Joe spends a day at Santa School


    9.25am   Second Star to the Left 
                   
animation
                    a rabbit, guinea pig and hamster deliver
                    a gift to a little girl
 (Repeat)

   9.50am   The Scooby-Doo Show 
                   ghostly canine adventures (Repeat)

   10.15am  Christmas at the Club Blue Peter 
                    (Repeat)

   11.20am   Looney Tunes  
                    fun with Daffy Duck & Bugs Bunny (Repeat)

   11.25am  Film : Miracle on 34th Street (1994) 
                   Christmas fantasy starring
                   Richard Attenborough and Elizabeth Perkins.

                   A sceptical young girl asks a department
                   store Santa Claus for the family she has
                   always wanted followed by

                   Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions

   1.15pm    BBC News
                   Weather, Regional News


    1.35pm   CBBC
                   The Scooby-Doo Show 

                   Ghostly adventures (Repeat)

   2.00pm  Blue Peter Christmas Show
                   Including the story of the Christmas truce
                   during the First World War, plus gifts for
                   the pets and carols around the tree.
                   With Konnie Huq, Simon Thomas.
                   Matt Baker and Liz Barker


    2.30pm  Looney Tunes  
                    Sylvester and Tweety-Pie are snowed in
                   
 (Repeat)

     2.40pm  Celebrity Stitch Up! 
                    Handy Andy, Melinda Messenger and 
                    Daniel Macpherson are taken for a ride
                    in a special edition


     3.10pm  Film : Free Willy (1993)  
                    Wildlife adventure starring
                    Jason James Richter and Lori Petty.
                    An act of vandalism leads a young tearaway
                    to an adventure park. where he forms a
                    friendship with an orca whale called Willy


     4.55pm  Weakest Link Special  
                    a panto themed team including 
                    Bobby Davro are asked questions by
                    Anne Robinson


    5.45pm   Film : A Bug's Life (1998) 
                    animated adventure, featuring the voices
                    of Dave Foley,  Kevin Spacey, Phyllis Diller
                    and Roddy McDowall.
                    When daydreaming ant Flik accidentally
                    puts his colony in peril from a swarm of
                    warlike grasshoppers, led by the ruthless
                    Hopper, he sets off for the big city to win
                    even tougher bugs over to the ants' cause

                    Première

      7.15pm  BBC News with Anna Ford  
                    Weather with David Braine
                    Regional News

     7.30pm  EastEnders  
                    Phil despairs as options fade for Jamie.
                    Meanwhile a familiar face returns to Walford
                    and is greeted by a lot more than just family
                    preparations for Christmas


    8.05pm   Film : The Mummy (1999)
                    Period horror adventure.
                    A party of archaeologists discover a tomb
                    containing the 3,000-year-old remains of
                    a murderous Egyptian priest, Imhotep.
                    When the mummy is accidentally disturbed,
                    he unleashes his terrifying powers on those
                    who have desecrated his resting place

                    Première

  10.00pm  The Christmas National Lottery 
                    with Dale Winton
                    EastEnders' Jessie Wallace joins Dale Winton
                    for the Christmas Millionaire Maker and
                    the Lotto draws


  10.15pm   Parkinson at Christmas
                   Guests on this bumper edition of
                   Michael Parkinson's talk show include
                   musician Tom Jones, impressionist
                   Alistair McGowan, Dame Edna Everage,
                   actor Nigel Havers, magician Marc Paul
                   and poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
                   Music comes from Martine McCutcheon
                   and soul diva Mica Paris, in performance
                   with the London Community Gospel Choir

                   followed by

                   National Lottery Update
                    
  11.30pm  BBC News with Anna Ford  
                  Weather with David Braine
                  Regional News

  11.40pm  Midnight Mass 
                   from Wells Cathedral in Somerset,
                   where worshippers gather for a celebration
                   of the First Communion of Christmas, a live
                   service led by the Dean of Wells, the
                   Very Rev Richard Lewis, with the Bishop
                   of Bath and Wells, the Rt Rev Peter Price,
                   giving the address.
                   Music from the cathedral choir includes
                   Once in Royal David's City,
                   It Came Upon the Midnight Clear,
                   Sing of a Maiden and
                   Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

               

  12.50am  Film : Carry On Cleo (1964)
                   comedy starring Sid James, 
                   Kenneth Williams and Amanda Barrie. 
                   Mark Antony falls for Cleopatra's charms
                   and together they begin plotting against
                   the hapless Julius Caesar


     2.25am  Sign Zone
                   Fame, Set and Match 
                   following some of the artists who took
                   part in Band Aid
(Repeat)

    3.25am  The Life Laundry 
                   the team clears out clutter from a  London flat
                   
(Repeat)

    3.55am  Pyramid 
                   the story of the construction of Egypt's 
                   Great Pyramid of Giza as it would
                   have appeared to those who built it
(Repeat)

   4.55-6.00am BBC News 24


  Christmas Day Wed 25th December 2002 

  BBC1 
 
    6.00am   CBeebies

                     Little Bear  triple bill  (Repeat)

    6.25am    Teletubbies Countdown to Christmas 
                     the countdown ends (Repeat) 
                     followed by
                     Pingu  
                     the clumsy penguin enjoys a family Yuletide
                     
(Repeat)

      6.35am  Bob the Builder 
                     Bob dons a Santa Claus outfit (Repeat)

      6.45am  Clifford the Big Red Dog 
                     Emily loses out to Jetta (Repeat)

      7.00am  CBBC
                     Snowden's Christmas Holiday Special 
                     a snowman and his friends try to go to
                     New York 
 

                     (Repeat)

     7.25am   Arthur 
                    
DW is upset (Repeat)

     7.50am  Taz-Mania
                   Taz delivers Christmas gifts to his friends
​                   
(Repeat)

   8.10am   Blue Peter Christmas Show 
                    (Repeat)

   8.40am  The Woody Woodpecker Show 
                   Wally, Woody and Mrs Meany
                   have a debate
 (Repeat)

   9.00am   Xchange Xtra  
                    Atomic Kitten jet off to Lapland

    9.15am   Looney Tunes 
                    Sylvester swaps round the gift tags (Repeat)

    9.25am  Donner  
                   animation, a reindeer has an ill-timed 
                   identity crisis


    9.50am  Choir of the Year 
                   twelve children's choirs compete to appear
                   in the grand final in London
 


  10.15am  No Room at the Inn ? 
                  a service at St Peter's Church in the
                  Bolton, Greater Manchester suburb of
                  Halliwell. Carols include 
                  0 Come, All Ye Faithful and
                  Hark! the Herald Angels Sing


  11.15am   Morecambe and Wise 
                  Britain's best-loved comedy duo in the
                  festive special from 1973

                  (Repeat)

  12.20pm  Film : The Santa Clause (1994)
                   fantasy with Tim Allen and Judge Reinhold.
​                   A divorcee steps into Santa's shoes when
                   the real one falls off his roof


    1.50pm  News ; Weather

   2.00pm  Top of the Pops
                   The year's top-selling singles and
                   the Christmas number one


    3.00pm  The Queen
                    Her Majesty's address to the nation
                    and Commonwealth


     3.10pm  Legend of the Lost Tribe  
                    Robbie the Reindeer and pals search
                    for a band of warriors in a family
                    animation with a star-studded cast of voices


    3.40pm   Bargain Hunt 
                    the show's own experts go head-to-head
                    in a festive special.
                    With David Dickinson


    4.20pm  Outtake TV  
                   comedic clips from the cutting-room floor,
                   with Paul O'Grady


    4.50pm  Film : Chicken Run (2000)
                    animated comedy, with the voices of
                    Julia Sawalha, Jane Horrocks, 
                    Miranda Richardson and Mel Gibson. 
                    A clutch of hens suffer life on a grim 1950s
                    egg farm. With the help of American rooster
                    Rocky, the birds hatch an escape plan

                    
Première

    6.10pm  BBC News with Huw Edwards
                   Weather with David Braine

    6.20pm  EastEnders 
                    In the first of two episodes tonight,
                    Ian has a surprise for Laura which
                    leaves her reeling


    6.55pm  My Family 
                   Ding Dong Merrily
                   Nick invites a lonely pensioner to share
                   the festive season with the Harpers


    7.25pm  Ground Force Goes Festive 
                   for the first time the team try one of
                   their transformations in winter,
                   on a playground at a special school in
                   East Sussex.
                   With Alan Titchmarsh, Charlie Dimmock
                   and Tommy Walsh


    8.25pm  The Big Impression 
                   comics Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona
                   serve up a mixture of familiar
                   impersonations, new characters
                   and unlikely sketches in their Christmas
                   special, which includes Sex and Man City
                   and an alternative EastEnders


    9.00pm  BBC News  with Huw Edwards
                    Weather  with David Braine

    9.05pm  EastEnders 
                   Billy's nerves almost get the better of him,
                   and Garry has to deal with a revelation.
                   Jamie and Sonia make a vow 

 
   9.40pm  Only Fools and Horses 
                   Strangers on the Shore
                   With the family fortune squandered,
                   the Trotters cook up a new rags-to-riches
                   scheme


  10.55pm  French and Saunders's Christmas Pudding
                   Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders
                   find themselves house-sitting for a rock star
                   over Christmas, during which time they
                   sample some television favourites and offer
                   a new angle on Monarch of the Glen and
                   Tipping the Velvet


   11.35pm  Film : The Wedding Singer (1998)
                   Romantic comedy starring Adam Sandler
                   and Drew Barrymore.
                   When wedding singer Robbie Hart's own
                   bride leaves him at the altar, his life - and
                   performances - go to pieces


  1.05am  There's Something About Mary (and Joseph)
                 Adam Hart-Davis and 
                 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
                 use their imagination to offer insights
                 into the Christmas story


  1.10am  Film : Steptoe and Son (1972)
                comedy starring Wilfrid Brambell and
                Harry H Corbett. Harold becomes engaged
                to a stripper


  2.50-6.00am BBC News 24

      
  Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 2002

  BBC1    

    6.00am  CBeebies
                    Little Bear
                    stars surprises and the North Pole (Repeat)

   6.30am  Pingu  
                   the petite penguin goes ice surfing 
                   (Repeat)

    6.35am  Bob the Builder 
                   Farmer Pickle's roof is in danger
                   (Repeat)
 
    6.45am  Clifford the Big Red Dog 
                   Tummy Trouble (Repeat)

    7.00am  CBBC
                   Christmas in Gaudinia 

                   chimney sweeps come to the rescue when
                   the Christmas star is stolen from the sky
                  
 (Repeat)

    7.25am  Arthur 
                  DW invents a friend, then Arthur loses a book
                  (Repeat)

    7.50am  Taz-Mania
                   the tale of the incredible Taz (Repeat)

    8.10am  Bring It On  
                   Canada's Rocky Mountain's welcome
                   the team for a Christmas Special


    8.40am  The Woody Woodpecker Show
                   Skiing, warm coats and tricks keep the
                   friends busy
  (Repeat)

    9.00am  Xchange Xtra 
                   H and Claire play their latest top tune

   9.15am    Looney Tunes  
                   Daffy v Porky Pig (Repeat)

    9.25am  The First Snow of Winter
                   Miriam Margolyes and Father Ted
                   star Dermot Morgan voice the tale
                   of a little duck
 
(Repeat)

    9.50am  The Scooby-Doo Show 
                   another spooky case (Repeat)
                                                                              
   10.15am  The CBBC Junior Great North Run Party 
                    Busted, S Club Juniors, and Blazin' Squad 
                    among the guests at the party


   10.40am  Serious Jungle 
                    Scorpions, spiders, tears and trauma loom
                    as the young adventurers face a night in
                    the rainforest


   11.10am   Looney Tunes 
                    more animated amusement (Repeat)

    11.15am  Film : Casper (1995)
                   comedy with Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman
                   and Eric Idle.
                   A wicked heiress hires a ghost specialist, 
                   Dr Harvey, to rid her house of its unwanted
                   inhabitants. But one befriends the doctor's
                   daughter


  12.50pm  Legend of the Lost Tribe 
                   Robbie the Reindeer's tale (Repeat)

    1.20pm  BBC News
                   Weather; Regional News


    1.40pm  Film : Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
                   Jennifer Saunders is among the guests in
                   an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's
                   tale. Jim Hawkins and chums think their
                   dreams have come true when they find a
                   treasure map


    3.10pm  Film : Babe : Pig in the City (1998)
                   fantasy sequel, starring James Cromwell.
                   Stranded in the city, Babe meets a group
                   of strange animals. But when the animal
                   control squad impounds Babe's new friends,
                   the pig sets out to help them
 Première   

   4.40pm  Final Score  
                   results roundup

    5.10pm  BBC News
                   Weather; Regional News


    5.30pm  Film : The Parent Trap (1998)
                   When Hallie and Annie meet, they find
                   they are twins separated years earlier
                   after their parents' divorce. They want
                   the family to be reunited, but are threatened
                   by a gold-digger intent on marrying their
                   father


    7.30pm  EastEnders
                   Martin faces up to the future, Sonia is
                   inconsolable and the Slaters discuss how
                   best to handle their new visitor


  8.00pm  Holby City 
                  Sins of the Father. 
                  Leslie Phillips guests as Tom's father whose
                  overbearing nature drives his son to the edge.
                  Meanwhile, Terry is told he will have to get
                  married in hospital and Chrissie's scan
                  confirms her worst fears


  9.00pm  Hound of the Baskervilles
                  Richard Roxburgh and Ian Hart head an
                  all-star cast as Holmes and Watson in
                  Allan Cubitt's dramatisation of Sir Arthur
                  Conan Doyle's classic tale. The mysterious
                  death of Sir Charles Baskerville leads the
                  detective duo to investigate an alleged family
                  curse and forces of evil at work on Dartmoor


 10.40pm  BBC News with Fiona Bruce
                  Weather with David Braine
                  Regional News

  10.55pm  Before They Were Famous 
                   Bond bombshell Halle Berry walks the
                   catwalk in tears; Will Young gets his degree
                   and Rio Ferdinand shimmies through an
                   end-of-school number in the seventh selection
                   of clips showing famous faces as never seen
                   before. 
                   Presented by Angus Deayton - in and out
                   of a rabbit suit


  11.35pm   Film : Airplane II : the Sequel (1982)
                   starring Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty.
                   Disgraced pilot Ted Striker escapes from
                   hospital and boards the first passenger
                   shuttle to the Moon

   1.00am  Film : Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973)   
                  starring Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett and
                  Diana Dors. 
                  Harold's mission to buy a replacement
                  carthorse has an unintended outcome


  2.35am  BBC News 24
  Christmas Eve Tuesday 24th December 2002

  BBC2

    6.00am  Breakfast 

                    with Dermot Murnaghan and
                    Natasha Kiplinsky


    9.00am  Great Railway Journeys  
                    St Louis to Dogon Country
                    Actor Danny Glover travels through
                    Senegal into Mali on a journey to discover
                    whether such nations can have economic
                    advancement without a loss of African
                    identity
 (Repeat) 

    9.50am  The World at War
                   On Our Way 
                   How Roosevelt and Congress differed on
                   the necessity of halting Hitler - until he
                   declared war on America
 (Repeat)

  10.45am  The Desert  
                   The war in North Africa, culminating in
                   the meeting of the Afrika Korps and
                   Desert Rats at El Alamein 
(Repeat) 

    11.40am  Film : Mrs Miniver (1942)
                    Classic wartime drama.
                    The outbreak of war in 1939 sees an
                    ordinary woman become a quiet heroine
                    on the home front  
starring Greer Garson
                    (b&w)


    1.50pm  Film : They Were Expendable (1945) 
                   War drama, showing as part of the
                   John Wayne in ... strand. 

                   Manila 1941: navy lieutenant John Brickley
                   is in command of a squadron of US motor
                   torpedo boats used for sending messages.
                   But one officer feels the unit should play a
                   more vital role
 (b&w)


  4.00pm  Amahl and the Night Visitors 
                  The story of a shepherd boy, his devoted
                  mother and the event that changes their lives
                  for ever is told in this Christmas opera classic.
                  With the City of London Sinfonia, conductor

                  Richard Hickox and the Choir of  CM90


   4.55pm  Carols from King's  
                   a celebration of Christmas from the Chapel
                   of King's College, 
Cambridge.
                   The story of Christmas is told through
                   Bible readings and poems, while
                   carols include 
                   Once in Royal David's City,
                   O Little Town of Bethlehem,
                   Sussex Carol and
                   Hark! the Herald Angels Sing


    6.10pm  Film : White Christmas (1954)
                   Timeless musical.
                   Old army buddies Phil Davis and Bob 
Wallace
                   travel with the glamorous Haynes Sisters
                   to the Columbia Inn in Vermont.
                   There, Phil and Bob are reunited with their
                   old commanding officer, who is now
                   struggling to keep the hotel going.
                   The visitors decide there's only one
                   answer - to put on a show


    8.05pm  Christmas Under Fire
                   Alan Bennett narrates this documentary
                   on the experience of Christmas for those
                   at home and on the battlefield during the
                   Second World War.
                   Interviews, archive footage and dramatic
                   reconstructions recall events including
                   the Luftwaffe's bombardment of London in
                   1940 and the Christmas meal served up
                   during the siege of Leningrad in 1941 that
                   was made with joiner's glue


    9.35pm  Porridge 
                   No Way Out
                   another chance to see the Christmas special
                   of 1975. 

                   An escape plan is being hatched and
                   Fletcher wants to stay well out of it.
                   Perhaps spending Christmas in the prison
                   hospital may help to keep him out of trouble

                   (Repeat)

  10.15pm  Have Yourself a Merry Eighties Christmas 
                  A light-hearted tribute to Christmas singles
                  of the 1980s.
                  From Jona Lewie's Stop the Cavalry in 1980
                  right the way through to Do They Know It's
                  Christmas by Band Aid 2, this is the story of
                  the decade when everyone dreamed of a
                  seasonal smash. David Bowie and Bing Crosby
                  formed an unlikely duo to bring Peace on
                  Earth, Fatboy Slim could be seen singing an
                  a cappella version of Caravan of Love, and
                  the Pretenders, Bruce Springsteen and
                  even Run DMC got caught up in the
                  Christmas rush


  10.55pm  The Office  
                   Training
                   To counter staff disillusionment, a
                   training day is run. While Brent starts
                   undermining the management consultant,
                   Gareth reveals rather too much in a
                   motivational exercise. All this proves too
                   much for Tim, who resigns


  11.25pm   Never Mind the Buzzcocks 
                   Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff, Sheila Ferguson
                   of the Three Degrees, comedian Steve Frost
                   and presenter 
Lauren Laverne join host
                   Mark Lamarr and regular team captains
                   Phill Jupitus and Bill Bailey
 (Repeat)

  11.55pm   I Love 1983  
                   Roland Rat celebrates the year he rescued
                   TV-am. Diana Moran - the Green Goddess
                   and Lizzie Webb urged 
Britons to change
                   into leotards and legwarmers,
                   Michael Jackson released the innovative
                   music video Thriller, 
Wham! topped the
                   charts with Club Tropicana and the film
                   Flashdance had people flocking to the
                   cinema
 (Repeat)

    1.25am   Re : Covered  
                   Bluetones perform TLC's Waterfalls,
                   Mis-teeq offer Roll On and Hey Mr DJ
                   plus Montell Jordan's This Is How We Do It
                   and Starbucks play David Lee Roth's
​                   Just like 
Paradise. 

                   Host Dermot O'Leary interviews the artists 

     1.55am  Closedown

 




































 












 

   
Christmas Day Wed 25th December 2002 

  BBC2

     6.00am  Breakfast 
                     
presented by Bill Turnbull


    9.00am  Great Railway Journeys 
                    Halifax to Porteau Cove,
                    mountaineer Chris Bonnington 
travels 
                    
across Canada by train

     9.55am   The Simpsons  
                     American animation chronicling the lives
                     of the Simpson family
 (Repeat)

    10.20am  Fresh Prince of Bel-Air 
                     'Twas the Night before Christening'
                      Will promises that Boyz II Men will 
​                      
perform at a christening (Repeat)

     10.45am  Queen and Country 
                      a repeat of the four-part series from
                      spring this year in which 
                      
William Shawcross tells the story of
                       the Queen's 50-year-reign through
                       personal recollections, archive film
                       and new footage. 

                       1) Servant of the People 
                       A look at the Queen's relationship with
                       her people during a period of
                       unprecedented social change.
                       Includes an interview with the
                       Princess Royal 
(Repeat)

      11.45am   Queen and Country
                       
2) Private Passions 
                       Identifying who has most influenced
                       the Queen, and how she handles problems
                       within her family, featuring home movie
                       footage 
(Repeat)

      12.45pm  Queen and Country
                      
3) Enduring Loyalties 
                      Assessing the Queen's role as head of
                      the Commonwealth and her skills of
​                      diplomacy


      1.45pm   Queen and Country
                     
4) My Government and I 
                     As head of state, Elizabeth II has
                     presided over the terms of office of
                     prime ministers, five of whom are
                     now dead. This episode examines
                     the Queen's relationship with
                     her governments
 

       2.45pm  Swan Lake
                      Deborah Bull introduces a performance
                      from Stockholm's Royal Opera House of
                      the Director Laureate of Birmingham
                      Royal Ballet, Sir Peter Wright 's revised
                      version of Petipa's classic Tchaikovsky
                      ballet. 

                      A beautiful princess, Odette, is turned
                      into a swan by a maligned magician,
                      Rothbart. With the Royal Swedish Ballet
                      conducted by Michel Queval


      5.00pm  Bing Crosby : In His Own Words
                      A profile of singer, actor and American
                      icon Bing Crosby, chronicling his life from
                      birth in Tacoma, Washington in 1903,
                      via fame as a 1930s crooner in Hollywood.
                      Crosby made more successful recordings
                      than Sinatra and the Beatles combined -
                      to star of the big and small screens through
                      roles in White Christmas, High Society
                      and his own television show


       5.50pm  Film : It's a Wonderful Life (1946) 
                      Frank Capra's classic fantasy drama. 
                      George Bailey is a small-town businessman
                      who believes he has been a failure.
                      Contemplating suicide, George meets
                      his guardian angel and discovers what
                      life in the town of Bedford Falls would
                      have been like had he never lived (b&w)

 
      7.55pm   The Queen  
                     Her Majesty addresses the nation and
                     the Commonwealth.
                     With in-vision sign language


      8.05pm  Lesley Garrett Live at Christmas  
                     a special in which the soprano is joined
                     by South American opera star Jose Cura,
                     South African diva Sibongile Khumalo
                     and jazz trumpeter Guy Barker for
                     performance of seasonal tunes at the
                     Harrogate International Centre. 

                     With the Northern Sinfonia and the
                     Northern Spirit Singers conducted by
                     Philip Ellis, Garrett and guests perform
                     Lux Aetema, the choral setting of Nimrod
                     from Elgar's Enigma 
Variations, Some
                     Enchanted Evening, Abide With Me,
                     Baby It's Cold Outside, Little Drummer Boy
                     and Silent Night


     9.05pm  Film : Topsy-Turvy (1999)
                    Biographical comedy drama directed by
                    Mike Leigh. 
Following the relative failure
                    of their latest opera, Princess Ida, WS Gilbert
                    and Arthur Sullivan clash over the topic
                    of their next project and seem set to end
                    their partnership. 
But then Gilbert's wife
                    persuades him to visit an exhibition of
                    Japanese culture
   
Première

   11.40pm   The Office 
                     New Girl 
                     Brent hires a secretary using dubious
                     selection criteria. Later, it's beers all
                     round as the team go to Chasers, Slough's
                     premier nightspot, and Gareth manages
                     to attract a member of the
                     opposite sex 
(Repeat)

   12.10am   Never Mind the Buzzcocks 
                    guests joining moderator Mark Lamarr
                    and team captains 
Phill Jupitus and
                    Bill Bailey are singer-songwriter 
Billy Bragg,
                    founder member of the Small Faces
                    Ian McLagan, comedian and journalist
                    Mark Steel and Gay-yee Westerhoff,
                    cellist with girl band Bond
 (Repeat)

    12.40am  I Love 1984 
                    Holly Johnson, lead singer with Frankie
                    Goes to Hollywood, recalls the year that
                    Relax was banned, thus ensuring its  success.
                    At the same time, Madonna was crowned
                    the queen of pop, Sade defined the concept
                    of coffee-table music and the film careers
                    of "Brat Pack" members Demi 
Moore,
                    Emilio Estevez and Rob Lowe were
                    
launched (Repeat)

     2.10am   Re : Covered
                    Ash perform Burn Baby Burn and
                    the Buzzcocks' I Don't Mind,
                    Idlewild play American English and
                    their take on the Cure's Boys
                    Don't Cry and A1 deliver their rendition
                    of Bryan Adams's Summer of 69 plus
                    their own track Make It Good.
​                    Presented by Dermot O'Leary


     2.40am  Closedown







 








​   Boxing Day Thursday 26th December 2002


   BBC2

   6.00am  Breakfast 

                   presented by Bill Turnbull

   9.00am  Great Railway Journeys 
                   Singapore to Bangkok,
                   actor Stephen Tompkinson enjoys the 
                   
Eastern and Oriental Express (Repeat)

   9.55am   The World at War  
                    Stalingrad 
                    
The legend of German mastery on land
                    was dispelled by their defeat at Stalingrad.
                    Many were killed as the army was beaten
                     for the first time. (b&w and Colour)
 
(Repeat)


  10.45am    The World at War
                     
Wolf Pack 
                     
Defeat in the Atlantic looms for the Allies
                     as Germany's attempts to starve Britain
                     by attacking ships bringing supplies from
                     North America prove successful.
                     (b&w and Colour)
 
(Repeat)


     11.40am   Film : Little Women (1949) 
                      Period drama adapted from Louisa May
                      Alcott's novel. New England,  1860s : with
                      their father away fighting in the Civil War,
                      the March sisters are left to be brought up
                      by their mother. Soon they are experiencing
                      the joy and pain of romance


      1.35pm   Film : In Harm's Way (1965)
                      Second World War action drama, showing
                      as part of the John Wayne in ... strand,
                      portraying the fortunes of two US Navy
                      officers. Captain Rockwell Torrey is sent
                      in search of the Japanese fleet, while his
                      friend Commander Paul Eddington
                      discovers a personal tragedy (b&w)


      4.15pm    Steptoe and Son
                      Men of Letters
                      The pair take up journalism.
                      Starring Wilfred Brambell and
                      Harry H Corbett
 (Repeat)

      4.45pm   Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em 
                      Learning to Drive  
                      Radio star David Jacobs guests as Frank
                      starts yet another new job in the 1975
                      Christmas special
(Repeat)


       5.15pm   Weakest Link Special 
                      Nine hairdressers take on the "queen of
                      mean" to win up to 
£10,000


       6.20pm  Film : The Alamo (1960)
                      continuing the season of films in the
                      John Wayne in ... strand with this historical
                      western, which is directed by and
                      stars Wayne.
                      A re-creation of events in the town of
                      San 
Antonio in 1836, when a band of  
                      Texans and their supporters battled
                      against overwhelming odds to defend
                      a Spanish mission from Mexican troops 


      9.00pm  Dead Ringers  
                      topical comedy as the quintet send up stars.                          Last in the current series

       9.30pm  Arena : Radio Ha!  
                      Double bill of documentaries that go
                      behind the scenes of two of
                      Radio 4's most popular comedy shows.
 

                      1) Meet the Dead Ringers
                      In a world of mimicry and satire, do
                      the Dead Ringers team know who they
                      really are? Meet Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens,
                      Mark Perry, Kevin Connelly and
                      Phil Cornwell, whose impressions of
                      everyone from Anne Robinson and
                      Sven-Goran Eriksson to George Bush and
                      Tony Blair recently made the move to TV


     10.30pm  Arena : Radio Ha! 
                      2)  It's Time for Just a Minute
                      Not many can talk for minute without
                      hesitation, repetition or deviation - but,
                      for 35 years, Just a Minute panellists have
                      done just that. Paul Merton, Clement Freud,
                      Linda Smith and Ross Noble continue
                      the story, with referee Nicholas Parsons
                      forever trying to keep the unruly quartet
                      under control


     11.30pm   The Office
                      It's bad news in the last of the first series,
                      as Brent hears his Slough branch is to be
                      merged. Though there will be losses, his
                      position is safe. Can he let his team down?
 
                      
(Repeat)

     12.00       Never the Mind the Buzzcocks
                     Tony Blackburn, Gary Moore, Mint Royale's
                     Chris Baker and comedian Jackie Clune
                     guest on another slice of the comic quiz,
                     featuring Mark Lamarr
(Repeat)

    12.30am   I Love 1985 
                     Miami Vice, Max Headroom and Live Aid
                     dominated TV screens,
                     Bruce Springsteen and Prince filled the
                     airwaves and hardy perennials Doc Marten
                     and Levi's ruled the roost in the fashion
                     world. Singer, model and Bond villain
                     Grace Jones hosts a look back at 1985


     2.00am  Re : Covered 
                    Gabrielle performs her own Out of Reach
                    and Carole King's It's Too Late, Mercury Rev
                    play their Little Rhymes and Black Sabbath's
                    Planet Caravan, and Travis offer their
                    Flowers in the Window and Queen's
                    Killer Queen.
​                    Host Dermot O'Leary interviews the artists


      2.30am  Closedown



   

  
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