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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1953

  Christmas Eve Thursday 24th December 1953 

  BBCTV

  3.15pm     About the Home
                    Introducted by Joan Gilbert
                    Floral Decorations
                    Frances Perry shows how to make decorations from your winter garden
                    Christmas Stockings
                    James Norbury tells how the practice of hanging up stockings at Christmas began
                    Dancing
                    Sydney and Mary Thompson teach the 'Sir Roger de Coverley'
                    Last-Minutes Hints
                    Margot Lovell suggests ways of adding to the pleasures of Christmas


  4.00pm   Watch with Mother  : Rag, Tag, and Bobtail

   4.15pm    Closedown

  5.00pm    Children's Television
                    Children's Newsreel 
                    A Time to be Born 
                    A Nativity play by P. D. Cummins 


  5.45pm   Closedown

   7.55pm  Weather Chart

  8.00pm  Newsreel

  8.15pm  Ballet Rambert in Peter and the Wolf
                 Prokofiev's fairy tale

  8.40pm  R.C.A.F. Christmas at North Luffenham
                 The Royal Canadian Air Force at North Luffenham Philip Robinson visits the Canadian
                  camp to meet one of the many Canadian airmen who, with his family, is celebrating
                  Christmas three thousand miles from his home town 


  9.10pm  Ray Martin and his Orchestra
                 with Joan Regan, The Television Toppers 

  9.40pm  Animal, Vegetable, Mineral ?
                 A special Christmas edition in which the chairman produces some seasonable objects to puzzle the
​                 experts. 
The Experts include : Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Hugh Shortt, 
Chairman : Glyn Daniel 


10.10pm  The Crib
                The Christmas story is retold on Christmas Eve in the quiet of a church crypt in the heart of London 
                 from St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London 

10.25pm  News
                 
(sound only)


  Christmas Day Friday 25th December 1953

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11.00am  Christmas Day Service 
                 from the Parish Church of St. Julian the Hospitaller, Wellow, Somerset

12.00        Closedown

  3.15pm   Christmas Journey Round the World
                  A flying journey Eastwards round the world to capture the festive spirit in which preparations are made
                  immediately before Christmas  
For this filmed programme a BBC camera team travelled more than 26,000
                  miles in five-and-a-half days and made twenty-two calls from Rome to Bangkok, from the beaches of
                  Australia to the shores of Honolulu, from the snows of Canada to the streets of New York.


  4.15pm   Watch with Mother : Andy Pandy
                
  4.30pm  Closedown

  5.00pm   Children's Television : The Walt Disney Christmas Show
                   A film of a Christmas party in an American Hospital
                   Introducing through a magic mirror artists and scenes from
                   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
                   Mickey Mouse and the Band Concert
                   Uncle Remus
                   Donald Duck the Plumber
                   Bambi


  5.55pm  Closedown

  7.25pm   Weather Chart

  7.30pm  Christmas Party    
                 Your Hosts McDonald and Leslie Michell,
                 Among the guests who have accepted invitations are
                 Terry-Thomas, Norman Wisdom, Arthur Askey,
                 The Beverley Sisters, Julie Andrews, Chan Canasta,
                 Shirley Abicair
,
John Slater and Max Bygraves

  9.15pm  Newsreel

  9.30pm  Interlude

  9.40pm  Dear Octopus
                  A comedy by Dodie Smith.
                  Starring Helen Haye, Malcolm Keen and Rachel Gurney

                  The action of the play takes place at the Randolphs' country house in
                  North Essex during a weekend in late autumn


11.25pm    News
                  (sound only)

11.40pm  Closedown


  Boxing Day Saturday 26th December 1953

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  1.10pm  Racing from Kempton Park

  2.35pm  Amateur Rugby League Football : 
Yorkshire v Lancashire
                 County Championship match. From the Parkside Ground, Hunslet, Leeds

  3.45pm  Alpine Patrol
                 Swiss film about the work of a mountain frontier patrol

  5.00pm  Children's Television : Toad of Toad Hall
                  by A. A. Milne From Kenneth Grahame's book 
                  "The Wind in the Willows"
                  Before an invited audience of children at the Television Theatre 


  6.30pm  Closedown

  7.00pm   The Week's Newsreel
                  This week's Television Newsreels (shortened versions) repeated at the following times: 
                  Monday's edition. 7.00 app. Tuesday's edition. 7.14 app. 
                  Wednesday's edition, 7.28 app. Thursday's edition, 7.42 app. Friday's edition, 7.56 app.


  8.10pm  Weather Chart and Interlude

  8.15pm   Garrison Theatre
                  from the a Royal Canadian Air Force Station
                 North Luffenham with Lind Joyce, David Hurst, Cal McCord, Fran Dowie and Candy Kane

                 Tommy Reilly, The Kordites introduced by Bob Monkhouse

  9.30pm  The Teckman Biography
                  Part 1- The Proposition
                   a serial in six parts by Francis Durbridge, part 1- The Proposition

10.00pm  Maurice Chevalier 
                  attends a special party in his honour at Cafe Continental

11.00pm    News
                   (sound only)


  Sunday 27th December 1953

  BBCTV

  5.00pm  Children's Television
                  Muffin the Mule with Annette Mills
                  You are invited to
 Jack Hylton's Circus
                  Join Brian Johnston at Earls Court where a special audience of children are watching part of
                  this exciting show 
                 
The Enchanted Garret 
                   A play for Christmas by Antonia Ridge 

  6.20pm  Closedown

   7.55pm  Weather Chart

  8.00pm  What's My Line
                  with Pat Kirkwood, Lady Barnett, Michael Denison and Gilbert Harding trying to
                  find the answers and Eamonn Andrews to see fair play


  8.30pm  The Rose Without a Thorn
                  starring Basil Sydney, Barbara Jefford and Tony Britton

10.20pm  Epilogue
                 Good News for the New Year The Rev. Dr. Donald O. Soper,
                 President of the Methodist Conference, speaks on the challenge of our time


10.30pm  News
                 (sound only)

  Monday 28th December 1953 (Bank Holiday)
 
  BBCTV

  3.15pm  Film : The Phantom Shot (1948)
                 starring John Stuart, Olga Lindo, Howard Marion-Crawford, Louise Lord

 4.00pm  Salzburg, City of Festival
                 This BBC television film tells the story of Salzburg, the birthplace of Mozart, 
                 and the festival of his music held there every year


  4.15pm  Closedown

  5.00pm  Children's Television : Film : Laurel and Hardy in "Swiss Miss" (1938)

  6.10pm  Closedown

  7.55pm   Weather Chart

  8.00pm  Newsreel


   8.15pm  All Your Own 
                 A special edition of the Children's Television programme in which children from all over the country are
                 invited to take part. 
Edited and arranged by Cliff Michelmore 

  9.00pm  The Moving Spirit 
                  cartoon film, made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company by Halas and Batchelor,
                  showing the development of the horse-less carriage

  9.20pm  The Carnival of the Animals 
                  a fantasy, with the Ballet Rambert

  9.40pm  International Survey : 4-The Changing Pattern in the West
                  A series of programmes on international affairs in which Alan Bullock analyses developments in Europe 
                    
10.20pm  News
​                 (sound only)

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