i always go up on the stage and think, "mind you, what a beautiful day." what a beautiful day for doing this. what a beautiful day for bouncing up and down in a big barrel of blancmange. how tickled i am by all this goodwill. what about you, missus? have you been tickled by goodwill? there was a showbusiness ken dodd, a thinking ken dodd, and hopefully there's an amusing ken dodd. i hope so anyway. # happiness! happiness! she sings there was television on and there was the group and freddie. they said, "what do you like more of spain?" and he was answering montserrat caballe. she is the best. that's why i listen to it. # barcelona!

# it was the first time that we met. he was a little shy at the beginning to sing with me. # the moment that you stepped into the room you took my breath away. # barcelona! # when we meet again someday. do you drink? not on duty, miss. do you smoke? not on duty, miss. well, do you mind if i smoke? of course not, miss. thank you so much. in movies, the way you begin, that's how you go on. if you start off playing one kind

of part, that's the kind of part you'll always be asked to do. in the end they almost don't give you a script. theyjust say be in it, you know. you practically wear the same costume. i'm blue. i'm beautiful. i'm the best. the funny thing is you can be much more round the corner with jokes with children. you can say something that's very tongue in cheek or very camp to a child and it will get the joke and a listening adult may not. the villain loses? that can't be! and the big bad wolf fell down the chimney? that's ridiculous. i am a villain and i always win. almost always. i have been invited to a royal garden party. ooh, a royal garden party! what's that, geoffrey?

# postman pat, postman pat, postman pat and his black and white cat. who else lives in the countryside? a postman. he travels around. he meets a lot of people, a friendly character. i thought this sounds quite likely. i don't think anybody‘s done it. ok, you go back to kendal and write an outline for 13 episodes. # a really happy man. tell you what. move it towards me a little bit. right, to you. to me. out. to me. steady. right, right. perfect. a frame should do it. you'll wear it out. nonsense. stupid thing. you could saw a bit off the cue. yawns. here is an illustrated summary of the news.

it'll be followed by the latest film of events and happenings at home and abroad. in those early days, newsreaders were never seen because it was feared that our facial expressions might not always look impartial. and worse still, that we might turn the news into a personality performance. police reinforcements have been brought to downing street tonight as the crowd outside number 10 built up to about 300. we are three friends, we're also bloggers, we all have one thing in common. we all have or we have had cancer. i'm basically writing down my whole life in a book for my little boy freddie, who is three. ijust really hope that through his life he will come back to that book and take comfort from it and feel like he knows the kind of person that his mother was.

# another mother's breaking heart is taken over. # the violence causes silence. # we must be mistaken. # you got me wrapped around yourfinger. # do you have to let it linger? # do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linger? # you know i'm such a fool for you. # you got me wrapped around yourfinger. # do you have to let it linger? # do you have to, do you have to, do you have to let it linger? the games of the 30th olympiad

in 2012 are awarded to the city of london. i am tessa jowell, olympic minister. what gives a life meaning is not only how it is lived but how it draws to a close. i hope that this debate will give hope to other cancer patients like me so that we can live well together with cancer, notjust dying of it. i will faithfully execute the office of

president of the united states, so help me god. read my lips. no new taxes. i can report to the nation, aggression is defeated. the war is over. # bring back nelson mandela. # bring him back home to soweto. # i want to see him walking hand in hand with winnie mandela. wilkins scores!

normally as a player you have one thing that you can do quite well and i would like people to say i could pass the ball well. whether it was sideways or forward, i'm not too sure. that was my philosophy of the game. keep the ball, make the opposition work, so that when they receive the ball, they're tired because they've had to work hard to get it back. don't give the ball away cheaply. ray wilkins scores for england. he's taken it well on the chest. lovely control by cyrille regis. what a great shot! what a goal. cyrille regis!

armfield, a perfect interception. people look back and say remember the world cup squad. it's not the same as being in the xi that played in the final. the point was it's better that they won. i had a moment of mixed joy and anguish, and my mind took over. it raced well ahead of my body and drew me compellingly forward. i felt that the moment of a lifetime had come. i collapsed as i crossed the tape, but then i recovered sufficiently to hear him announcing, "in a time which, subject to ratification, will be a new world record, three..." and after that the noise of the crowd obliterated the remainder of his announcement.

music: chariots of fire. one, two, three, four, hup, two, three, four. # it's a long way to tipperary # it's a long way to go # it's a long way to tipperary # to the sweetest girl i know # goodbye, piccadilly. ..#. i said, "i am the pilot". they didn't believe me and they actually went in the aeroplane and searched it to find a pilot. and they came back and said, "there's nobody there. you must be". i flew 400 spitfires and occasionally i would take one up and go and play with the clouds, which was so delightful and lovely. the crew of apollo 12, the second

manned landing on the face of the moon. five, four, three, two, one... zero. all engines running. commit. lift off. i can see the surface. i think probably i'm the luckiest guy you've ever met because i lived my whole life just doing things that i thought would be the most fun to do. in the ready room, near launching pad 19, they get into their spacesuits, the final mission briefing behind them. the commander, john young. roger all. i'm sure looking forward to getting people off this planet because i think it will be very helpful to get the future done right for the kids of tomorrow, our children and grandchildren. that would be a lot of fun.

music: nights in white satin by the moody blues. # i will take the stars out of the sky for you # stop the rain from falling if you ask me to # i'd do anything for you, your wish is my command # i could move a mountain when your hand is in my hand #. # you've got wonderful arms # you've got charm...#. i remember ringing up dave and i said, "let's go out for a pint. i've got an idea of writing songs about things that i know about and singing in my own accent". # now i don't mind having a chat

# but you have to keep giving it that #. # now if you think i don't mean what i say, and i'm only bluffin' # you got another think comin', i'm tellin' you that for nothin'. # cos darlin' i'm leavin', # that's what i'm gonna...do—oo—oo#. # and if i start a commotion # i run the risk of losing you and that's worse # ever fallen in love with someone ever fallen in love # in love with someone # you shouldn't have fallen in love with?#. # i can't be a man with all the powers i possess # cos girl, you're the key to my happiness # and oh, ooooh # i can't get next to you #. painters paint their environment

and their times but they don't illustrate it. if they do, it becomes literary and sentimental. certainly, i used to take great big handfuls of paint and swoosh them, yes, and they were very physical. and to make it work, you simply wind the cube, and now, you'll see it slowly unwind, so if i put the radio on... you see, it produces that volume of sound. so i can't go in there. i can't go in there? i want to come in. # practical cats, dramatical cats # pragmatical cats, fanatical cats #. it's only by doing it flat out that you suddenly find a release happening. suddenly, something happens to your spirit. suddenly, a lead can do something it never did before. you don't find that by saving for the performance.

ever. # allegorical cats, metaphorical cats # statistical cats and mystical cats # political cats, hypocritical cats # clerical cats, hysterical cats # cynical cats, rabbinical cats # jellicle songs forjellicle cats jellicle songs forjellicle cats # jellicle songs forjellicle cats # jellicle songs forjellicle cats #. i was never actually told that i had only two years to live but i could see the doctors didn't think my prospects were good. too often, they are told that these are stupid questions to ask but this is said by grown—ups who don't know the a nswe i’s , and don't want to look silly by admitting they don't know. as you can imagine, i am very excited. i have been wheelchair—bound for almost four decades. and the chance to float free in zero g will be wonderful.

i just came to see if you're all right, not scared by the lightning and winds and everything. that's all right, thanks, alice. i'm not. neither am i. she screams. may ijust say that i think you look gorgeous in that frock that you were wearing the last time you were here. yes, right, ok. here she is. loads of love. abyssinia! who is it? the bishop. it's one of those key moments in life when it's possible that you can be really genuinely cool and i utterly adore you. i think it was the nicest i2 weeks i've ever had.

i cried at the end because i'd loved it so much. i just laughed for 12 weeks. # she may be the reason i survive # the why and wherefore i'm alive. # the one i care for through the rough and ready years. # me, i'll take her laughter and her tears. # and make them all my souvenirs. # for where she goes i've got to be. # the meaning of my life is she. # she! # oh, she. look up there. what the hell's that? easy, miss. i've got you. you've got me? who's got you?

he is exactly like you in every way. except one eighth your size. breathtaking. i shall call him mini—me. i'm going to play the nice guy but deep down i'm gonna be evil. music: lawrence of arabia — theme. # spider—man, spider—man. # does whatever a spider can. i would be writing these stories, along with the artists

we would be working with, and we would all be hoping somebody would buy the comic books so that we could keep ourjobs and pay the rent and not be thrown out in the streets. invitation, sir? i should be on that list. name? stan lee. yeah, nice try, buddy. nice try. no, really. i'm stan lee. you know, i guess one person can make a difference. straighten out, straighten out.

all right. i got it straight. oh, my god. bring it around. it really doesn't take a rocket scientist to be an actor. you just have to try and make it real. what do you do except drive fast? have fun. is this fun? driving? driving, talking to me. well, they're both a challenge. you come into my house, my party, to tell me about the future and the future is tape, video tape, and not film that has amateurs and not professionals? i'm a film—maker. that is why i will never make a movie on video tape. # wake me up when it's all over. # when i'm wiser and i'm older. # all this time i was finding myself. # and i didn't know i was lost. dale winton!

hello! thank you, thank you so much. hi there. welcome to supermarket sweep. forget blake. you have control of the liberator now. there is no more powerful ship in the galaxy. you have orac. avon, don't you see what that means? at this moment we can take history and shape it in our own image. the daleks have secured the self—destruct chamber. the station is safe. excellent. the daleks have taken the doctor prisoner. this, my sweet, is a letter

from my solicitor telling you that your husband has filed a petition for divorce. it also tells you to get yourself a solicitor pretty damn quick. happy christmas, ange. seven years i've been waiting for you to make your fortune, half a fortune, to get a job even. i've had jobs. yes, 273! oh, stop it, elsie. you shouldn't laugh at people. i can't help it. i'd never come out if i looked like him. i want you to get up out of your seat

right now and say i want my sin forgiven. i'm looking forward to death because i want to go into that glorious new world where i believe everybody that knows christ is going to go. i'm going to have all the answers that now i would like to have answers to. i love you but i'm the man and you are the woman and i'll make the decision concerning my life. you better think about what you're saying. you better to think about the consequences of your actions. oh, shut up, woman. # you better think. think! # think about what you're trying to do to me. think. think, think.

# let your mind go, let yourself be free. # let's go back, let's go back. # let's go way on, way back when. # i didn't even know you. # you couldn't have been too much more than ten. # when combing my hair now. # wondering which dress i'm going to wear now. # i say a little prayerfor you. # oh, yes, i do. # you make me feel. # a woman. # yeah! # oh, yeah! wii and christmas day on a mild and

cloudy note but at least the weather was mostly behaving itself. —— week and christmas day. as far as boxing day is concerned, it will stay mild in some sunshine in the forecast. here is the satellite image, the winds are also blowing out of the southwest and that is a mild direction sell out west at the moment temperatures are into the double figures in looking at europe, milder area starting to push in, deeperfurther milder area starting to push in, deeper further east into europe as well and pushing colder air towards russia which is where the really

freezing weather is at the moment. let's have a look at the forecast for the rest of christmas day in the early hours of boxing day. you can see the south—westerly winds freshening here and some rain on the way but for the vast majority of the country it is a dry night and after is at six, seven, 8 degrees which is the daytime temperatures for this time of year. a touch of frost in the very north of scotland and then boxing day itself, some sunshine and the forecasts and south coast east of the pennines and parts of wales and northern ireland, look at the temperatures. double figures pretty much right across the country, i! degrees in belfast, glasgow and edinburgh. chris the end of the week, high—pressure driving across western parts of europe, a bit more clout towards the northwest and

closer to atlantic weather fronts. scotla nd closer to atlantic weather fronts. scotland in the northwest there are a lwa ys scotland in the northwest there are always a bit more clout as we head into thursday. the south of that, thursday looks bright, it looks like cardiff is in for some sunshine and same goes for london and east of the pennines, some find whether. temperature is around 10 degrees which is colder in east anglia because we think the morning may bring a touch of frost of the temperatures might struggle through the course of the day. friday and into the weekend again more or less the same. a lot of cloud some sunny spells and temperatures around the 10 degrees mark. that is it for me. goodbye. this is bbc world news today. i'm ben bland. our top stories. indonesia lays out plans to build a new warning system capable of detecting underwater landslides, as the death toll from saturday's tsunami rises to 429. the pope appeals for peace in conflict zones like yemen

and syria in his annual christmas address from the vatican. in his christmas message, president trump says there'll be no end to the government shutdown until funding is secured for his us—mexico border wall. and from walls to calls, did the president put his foot in it by asking a seven—year—old if he believed in santa? hello and welcome to world news today.