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)