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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1956

   
  Christmas Eve Monday 24th December 1956

  BBCTV

  3.00pm  Mainly for Women Christmas Party
                  George Moon and Jon Pertwee with Roma Fairley, Joan Gilbert. Betty Lait, Vera McKechnie,
                  Carmen del Rio, Barry Bucknell, James Drake, Billy Milton and other regular contributors to afternoon
                  programmes 


  3.45pm  Watch with Mother : Picture Book 

  4.00pm  Closedown

  5.00pm  Children's Television
                  presents Gerald Campion in Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School by Frank Richards 
                  "
Bunter's Christmas Box" (Repeat)


  6.30pm  Loganberry Pie
                  Jimmy Logan invites some young friends to fun and games behind the scenes on the stage of the
                  Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow, between performances of "Babes in the Wood"


  6.40pm  A Christingle for Christmas 
                 in Gracehill, Co. Antrim, the children of the Moravian Church join in a ceremony which happens every
                 Christmas Eve


  7.00pm  News
                  Sports News Highlight introduced by Cliff Michelmore 
                  Weather

  7.15pm  Film : Stagecoach (1939) 
                starring Claire Trevor, John Wayne and directed by John Ford

  8.45pm  This Is Your Life
                 introduced by Eamonn Andrews 

  9.15pm   Panorama
                  Richard Dimbleby brings you Television's Window on the World 

10.00pm  Off the Record
                  Jack Payne introduces stars and personalities who are Off The Record
                  together with the latest news from the record industry featuring
                  Anne Shelton, Alma Cogan, Lonnie Donegan, and his Skiffle Group, Jill Day
                  Stanley Black, 
Tommy Steele with The Concert Orchestra and The George Mitchell Singers


10.30pm  The Outing
                  by Dylan Thomas, told by Emlyn Williams

10.45pm  News

11.00pm  Amahl and the Night Visitors
                 Christmas story with music by Gian-Carlo Menotti 

11.50pm  First Communion of Christmas Day
                 celebrated in York Minster by the Very Rev. Eric Milner-White , Dean of York 

  1.00am  Weather
​                 Closedown



  Christmas Day Tuesday 25th December 1956

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11.00am  A Family Service  
                 from Warwick Road Congregational Church, Coventry uniting with the Queen's Road Baptist Church

  2.55pm  His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh (sound only)
                 
speaking from the Royal Yacht Britannia in South Pacific waters
                 The final message in the programme "Voices Out of the Air" broadcast
                  throughout the Commonwealth as a prelude to A Christmas Message from

                  Her Majesty The Queen at 3.00pm


  3.00pm  The Queen's Christmas Message
                  (sound only)

  3.15pm   Variety Theatre of China
                  A BBC telerecording of some of the outstanding and unusual acts from the recent
                  London stage production

  3.30pm   Grand Circus 
                   from Paris, A direct relay of part of the Grand Circus from the Palais des Sports in
                   Paris including : aerial
acts, clowns jugglers, chimpanzees and the dance of thirty elephants

  4.30pm  Puss in Boots 
                  A new filmed story for children told by Johnny Morris
                  'Get me a pair of boots,' said the cat. The miller's son arranged for
                   a pair of cat's boots to be made and from that moment his fortunes change


  4.50pm  The Lone Ranger
                  Who is he? 
                  What is he? 
                  Why is he masked? 
                   In this exciting film of the wild West the Lone Ranger and Tonto,
                   his faithful Indian friend, fight a gang of bank robbers and come to the rescue of a lonely
                   family at Christmas


   5.15pm  Max Wall in : Ice Crackers 
                  A Christmas party on ice featuring young British skating stars from Queens Ice Club, London
                  Introduced By: David Jacobs


  5.45pm  Today's Sport
                  Kenneth Wolstenholme gives today's football and major sporting results

  5.50pm   Weather followed by 
                  What's on Tonight
                   with Michael Barry, Patricia Foy and Ronnie Waldman

  6.00pm   Opera from Germany: Act 2 of The Marriage of Figaro
                   An opera by Mozart to a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte after Beaumarchais 
                   (Sung In German) 

   7.00pm   News

    7.10pm   Christmas Disneyland
                   Walt Disney brings along some old friends and invites you to meet some new ones in a
                    film programme specially prepared for BBC Television's Christmas Day


   7.45pm   Pantomania or Dick Whittington 
                   by Eric Sykes, with Jean Kent, Sylvia Peters, Frankie Howerd,
                   Hattie Jacques, Billy Cotton, Spike Milligan, Fred Emney and David Attenborough


   8.45pm   Home is the Sailor 
                    A comedy specially written for the BBC Television Service for Christmas Day by Arthur Macrae 
                    starring Brenda Bruce and Charles Victor

 10.00pm   Music for You
                    introduced by Eric Robinson

11.15pm     News Summary and Weather
                   Closedown



  Boxing Day Wednesday 26th December 1956

  BBCTV

  1.30pm  Racing at Kempton Park 

  3.00pm  Film : The Kansan (1943) 
                  starring Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt

  4.30pm  Watch with Mother : Andy Pandy

  4.45pm  Children's Television presents The Goose Girl
                  fairy tale based on the story by the Brothers Grimm by Clifford Williams and Donald Johnson 

  5.45pm  Today's Sport
                  Kenneth Wolstenholme gives today's football, racing, and major sporting results followed by 
                  The Weather

  7.00pm  News

   7.10pm  At Home on Boxing Day with Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly
                  with their Children at their home in Shepperton, Middlesex 
                  introduced by Hywel Davies 

  7.40pm   Bobby Howes, Sally Bazely and Leslie Phillips in "Beauty and the Beast"
                  with Inia Te Wiata and David Hughes. Musical play specially written for BBC Television 

  9.00pm  The Light of Heart  
                  by Emlyn Williams starring John Longden and Maxine Audley

10.30pm   The Good Old Days
                   Christmas Edition of Old-Time Music-Hall 

11.30pm    News Summary, Weather
                  Closedown
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