BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1952
Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December 1952
BBCTV
3.00pm Newsreel and Films
4.00pm Closedown
5.30pm Children's Television : A Time to Be Born
A nativity play by P. D. Cummins
6.05pm Closedown
6.30pm The Night When Christ Was Born
an evening service from St Chad's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Birmingham
7.00pm Closedown
8.00pm Newsreel
8.15pm Her First Party
a new ballet from John Cranko
8.35pm Early One Morning
a Christmas film from Sweden
8.45pm Excerpts from Emile Littler's Pantomime Jack And Jill
9.30pm Toscanini
conducts Verdi's Hymn of the Nations, a film
9.40pm Solo Performance : Bransby Williams
as Scrooge in scenes from A Christmas Carol
10.00pm The Crib
"And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe, lying in a manger"
In the quiet of the Cathedral of St. Chad in Birmingham, the Christmas story is retold
10.15pm Weather Forecast and News (sound only)
Christmas Day Thursday 25th December 1952
BBCTV
11.00am Christmas Day Service
from the Church of St. Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, the Parish Church of the High Seas
12.00 Closedown
3.20pm Film : Swiss Miss (1938)
starring Laurel and Hardy
4.20pm Interlude
4.30pm For the Very Young
Maria Bird invites your small children to join in a special Christmas programme of songs and games with
Andy Pandy and afterwards to watch the adventures of
Bill and Ben, The Flowerpot Men
5.00pm Children's Television : One Way Genie
A Christmas play by Godfrey Harrison
6.00pm Closedown
7.30pm Television's Second Christmas Party
The guests include: Arthur Askey, Ethel Revnell, Norman Wisdom, Frankie Howerd, Petula Clark,
Betty Driver, John Slater, Eamonn Andrews, Tommy Cooper, Joe Stuthard and many others.
Music by Eric Robinson and his Orchestra
9.15pm A Christmas Card from Korea
Television outside broadcast cameras, with James Buchan , visit a family in Scotland
and bring greetings from their son serving with the Black Watch in Korea
9.30pm 1066 and All That
a musical comedy with Harry Locke
11.00pm Weather and News
(sound only)
11.15pm Closedown
Boxing Day Friday 26th December 1952
BBCTV
1.10pm Racing at Kempton Park
2.40pm Closedown
3.00pm Film : Little Men (1940)
starring Kay Francis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft
4.00pm Closedown
5.00pm Children's Television
gives a special Boxing Day party at a hospital for crippled children in Bromsgrove
introduced by Barrie Edgar and Jennifer with Ethel Revnell , Charlie Clapham
Harry Corbett and Sooty, Mundy and Earle, Danny Gray
6.00pm Closedown
8.00pm Newsreel
8.15pm Gay's the Word
starring Cicely Courtneidge in Ivor Novello's play with Thorley Walters
10.00pm Pouishnoff
at the Piano
10.20pm Weather Forecast and News (sound only)