BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1947


  Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1947

  BBCTV

11.00am  Demonstration film

12.00        Closedown

  3.00pm  Film : The Young in Heart (1938)
                  starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Janet Gaynor

  4.30pm  Closedown

  8.30pm  Leslie Henson's Christmas Eve Party

  9.15pm   The Coventry Nativity Play

10.00pm  Christmas Carols  
                  sung by the London Singers

10.15pm    News
                  (sound only)

10.30pm  Closedown


  Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1947

  BBCTV

  3.00pm  The King`s Message to the Commonwealth and Empire
                  (sound only)

  3.15pm  A Grand Christmas Party
                 from the Star and Garter Home, Richmond

  4.00pm  Closedown

  8.00pm  Jasper Maskelyne and Company in "Hey Presto"

  8.45pm  Tons of Money
                 a farce by Will Evans and Valentino

10.15pm  News
                (sound only)

10.30pm  Closedown


  Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1947

  BBCTV

  2.30pm  Bertram Mills Circus
                  from Olympia

  3.00pm  Children's Christmas Party

  4.00pm  Closedown

    8.15pm  The Circus
                   from Olympia

    9.15pm  Kaleidoscope 
                   a magazine programme

10.00pm  Dorothy Pouishnoff
                  (piano)

10.15pm  News
​                (sound only)

10.30pm  Closedown