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主播大秀 Television Christmas highlights 2005 Other Christmas programming
Please note that these programmes, looked after by 主播大秀 Television Publicity's Front Desk, will not have preview DVDs available - but information is below.
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主播大秀 ONE
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All Time Greatest Party Songs
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主播大秀 ONE brings you the third All Time Greatest... show, but this time it's party songs that are getting the all-star treatment.
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The show will feature the original superstars performing their party classics from the last three decades of pop.
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Eighties favourites Rick Astley and Bananarama will be there to perform, along with the smoochtastic Il Divo; "giving love in a family dose" will be the reunited The Nolans; and there'll also be classic numbers from the Sugababes, M People, the magnificent Jocelyn Brown, Simply Red, Seventies rocker Suzi Quatro, Liberty X and Tony Christie.
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Your hostess with the mostest will be Tess Daly, who'll be there to guide us through the party songs and karaoke favourites - the show is fully interactive - that made you dance, cry and even helped you pull.
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All Time Greatest Party Songs is a good time guaranteed at the ultimate pre-Christmas knees up.
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Celebrity Mastermind
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John Humphrys asks the questions in this Christmas run of programmes, where well-known celebrities take to the famous black chair.
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They will compete in general knowledge rounds and their chosen specialist subject.
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Famous faces include actress Wendi Peters (Kander and Ebb Musicals); garden designer Diarmuid Gavin (The Music of U2); broadcaster Paul Ross (The Life and Works of Ezra Pound); Lembit Opik MP (Japanese Motorbikes and Their History); writer Iain Banks (Malt Whisky and the Distilleries of Scotland); impressionist Alistair McGowan (The Life and Works of Erik Satie); author and broadcaster Sid Waddell (rock 'n' roll 1955-65); and classical pianist Myleene Klass (Sex and the City Series Three).
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Last of the Summer Wine - Christmas Special
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Merry Entwistle and Jackson Day
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In the days leading up to Christmas, Clegg and Truly (Peter Sallis and Frank Thornton) find themselves coping, not only with the latest scheme of Howard (Robert Fyfe) to escape from the tyranny of Pearl (Juliette Kaplan), but the problem of what to do with an inebriated Father Christmas.
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Having gone too far in their attempts to revive Smiler (Stephen Lewis), following his somewhat unexpectedly strenuous activity as Santa while advertising Auntie Wainwright's (Jean Alexander) Christmas Bazaar, they find that transporting his limp body around town arouses much interest - especially from the local constabulary (Ken Kitson and Louis Emerick).
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Meanwhile, Nellie (June Whitfield), an old schoolchum of Nora (Kathy Staff) and Ivy (Jane Freeman), has returned to the fold with her unseen doting husband. Thanks to the wonders of the mobile phone, he is never far away from her.
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Also in the episode: Alvin (Brian Murphy), Billy (Keith Clifford), Entwistle (Burt Kwouk), Marina (Jean Fergusson), Miss Davenport (Josephine Tewson), Tom (Tom Owen), Barry and Glenda (Mike Grady and Sarah Thomas), and The Golf Captain (Trevor Bannister).
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Antiques Roadshow - The Next Generation
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Michael Aspel and the team welcome the next generation of young collectors as they descend on The Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol with their collections and family heirlooms for Antiques Roadshow - the Next Generation.
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Outtake TV - Christmas
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Anne Robinson brings a sackful of new outtakes to 主播大秀 ONE this Christmas with two helpings of mistakes, bloopers and pratfalls from 主播大秀 programmes.
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Even the time-travelling Christopher Eccleston doesn't escape from Anne Robinson's grasp in this Christmas feast.
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Test the Nation - Christmas 2005
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The Nation's favourite test is back to see what you can remember about the events of 2005...
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Who were the new faces, who'll be sadly missed, what were the stories that shook the world?
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Anne Robinson and Phillip Schofield will test your knowledge of the past 12 months and remind you of some of the highs as well as some of the lows.
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Among the groups are newlyweds, cricketers, postal workers, male voice choirs and dinner ladies not to mention a team of celebrities including Britain's Paralympic champion Tanni Grey Thompson.
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In part two (after the news), catch all the answers and your own individual score - and see how you match up with the rest of the country.
The web address is bbc.co.uk/testthenation.
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What Not To Wear - Christmas Special... When You're The 'Plus One' Guest
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It's Christmas time again. and another round of festive parties awaits.
They should be jolly occasions, a chance to let your hair down and enjoy yourself, but there's always the nightmare of what to wear.
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It's bad enough when it's your own work bash, but for many women there's one invitation they dread receiving: the one inviting your husband/partner and a 'plus one' guest to his company's party.
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There's no escape. He expects you to be there. You don't know anyone - he knows everyone. You never know what to wear - and all his colleagues are scrutinising you.
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Trinny and Susannah take pity on seven 'plus one' women in this Christmas special, and save them from their sartorial nightmares as they prepare for their partners' Big Nights...
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Our cast is probably the most diverse What Not to Wear has ever tackled: five butchers' wives from Yorkshire preparing for the big Butchers' Dinner in Bradford; the shy wife of a managing director in Darlington who has to meet the entire staff and clients at her husband's biggest corporate do to date; and Ingrid Tarrant, wife of Chris, whose bizarre dress sense when she accompanies Chris to functions has made her a legend.
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Will Trinny and Susannah succeed in getting them all scrubbed up and turned out in time for their Big Nights? Will any of their husbands recognise them after they've been through the What Not to Wear treatment? And what will Chris Tarrant say when he sees what they've done to Ingrid?
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主播大秀 TWO
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Rick Stein - Christmas
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For the festive season, Rick will throw further insight into where food comes from: where it is reared,
harvested and prepared.
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The food heroes will focus on favourites such as turkeys, geese, well-hung beef, cheeses, wine, smoked salmon, pickles and chutneys.
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Dead Ringers - Christmas Special
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A mixture of topical sketches and spectacular spoofs are brought to 主播大秀 TWO by the Dead Ringers team.
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Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Phil Cornwell, Mark Perry and Kevin Connelly bring their mimicry skills in this end of the year show.
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Don't Panic About. Christmas Shopping
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Only 50 hours left to Christmas Day. You may not have bought a single present but - there is no need to panic! Contrary to popular belief, last minute shopping is not only possible but preferable.
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The programme brings scientific proof and expert insight to show us how to shop fast, efficiently and very, very late.
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In fact, you can buy all your presents between 2.00 and 4.00pm on Christmas Eve.
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The show stars members of the public who've perfected the art of Christmas Eve shopping and others who have harrowing tales of gifts gone wrong.
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Plus the best stories from the front-line troops of festive retail: lingerie sales assistants.
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Learn the perils of buying a compost bin for your wife. Acquire the art of the casual hint. Find out how the bra and knicker set can trap the unwary. See why women need to shop like men. Hear the worst crimes the present-giver can commit.
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Relax, chill - by the end of the programme you still have 49.5 hours before you need to hit the shops.
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Gardeners' World - Christmas Special
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This year's Christmas special sees Monty Don and the team celebrating all that is green at Yuletide.
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Monty will be finishing off the new conifer garden and showing different ways to light the garden at Christmas.
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Monty will also be giving lots of tips on how to have a 'green' Christmas, including what to do with your Christmas tree once you've finished with it.
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Sarah Raven has been to Kew to take part in their Christmas pudding walk to discover where all the ingredients for this great British dessert come from.
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She is also showing us tricks and ideas for easy-to-make Christmas decorations from plants found in the garden.
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Carol Klein has spent the year following the development of one of the largest Christmas garlands in the country, at the National Trust's Cotehele garden - from choosing the plants to grow through to the drying stages and making the garland, Carol has been on hand to see the transformation.
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And Joe Swift will be giving you lots of ideas on how to dress up your front door, arguably the most important part of the garden at Christmas.
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Toy Stories
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Many parents will have just spent a small fortune on their kids' presents this Christmas as they sit down to watch this festive treat.
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As they wrap up the latest computer game, Robosapian character or Bratz Stylin' Salon, every mum and dad wonders (they do every year) which toys will be five-minute wonders and which will stand the test of time.
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This programme is a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, presented by a man who still plays with them.
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When James May was three, his father gave him a toy car for Christmas, and a life behind the wheel and under a bonnet became his destiny.
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His love of engineering and building things has shaped the ingredients of his entire toy cupboard... and there's not a microchip in sight.
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Forty-two-year-old James takes us on a tour of his childhood mind as he rifles through his boy toy favourites, which include Meccano, Lego, Scalextric, Airfix and his all-time number one toy - the train set.
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He still plays with his toys - still loves building things with his various sets. Each toy prompts a story - a history told via archive, anecdote and obsessive collector.
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There are thrills and spills along the way...
Will Action Man's parachute open when James throws him from a helicopter at 150 feet?
Can James break the Measured Mile landspeed record. in a Scalextric car? This is the first time this has ever been attempted
anywhere in the world.
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Will a group of 11-year-olds be able to build an original Meccano crane by following the Fifties instruction manual? It baffled most children then... Will today's lot prove brighter?
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Will James outbid hardbitten collectors in his quest for a Triang train at auction?
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He reckons all toys are to be played with. not kept in their original boxes by grown-ups who should know better.
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As we follow James through this quirky tale, he expounds his theory that toys tell us as much about the nation that embraced them as any history book.
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And as a gesture to the girls - and his older sister - we get a brief assessment of Sindy's place in the cannon of doll history.
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It's a cornucopia of weird facts and eccentricities wrapped up in a nostalgic glow which will appeal to all generations.
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James May has been on Top Gear for the last five series, and is in the middle of filming the sixth. He writes a weekly motoring column for the Daily Telegraph.
He owns four cars, three motorbikes and four pushbikes - all of which he "tinkers with".
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What Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond probably don't know is that he also possesses more than 120 model locomotives, 150 toy cars, 50 Scalextric cars, 24 Airfix models and two Meccano sets.
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主播大秀 FOUR
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Advent Calendar
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This series of 24 short programmes is a musical celebration for Advent 2005.
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Each day, we open a window of the calendar for a five minute programme featuring the cream of the 主播大秀 music archive.
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The series will be a real m锚l茅e of musical styles and we'll share Christmas traditions from around Europe and the world.
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The specially-shot material for the series will include a children's choir performing a carol in Welsh from the village of Bethlehem in West Wales.
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In contrast, it will also feature a children's choir in the urban landscape of the docks in Cardiff Bay, performing a piece which highlights the rich historical ethnic mix of the old Tiger Bay.
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The music featured will vary widely: some humorous, some deeply sacred and some secular.
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Each short will have graphics running along the bottom of the screen with facts about Advent relating to varying religions and practices worldwide.
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For example, Protestant Christians concentrate Advent on the four Sundays, whilst Catholics have many Saints' Days and feast days during Advent, such as the feast of the Immaculate Conception on 8 December.
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In other parts of the world, December is a time of harvest and plenty. In Ghana, for example, they celebrate the bringing in of the cocoa crops in December; whilst in many European countries such as Sweden, Norway, France and Belgium the Christmas celebrations begin with a feast and the exchanging of gifts on Christmas Eve. 听
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