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BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1961


  Christmas Eve Sunday 24th December 1961

  BBCTV

10.00am   Ar Gyger Heddiw'r Bore
                 
a programme of carols
                  
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Pa
lace)

10.30am    Morning Service 
                    from Monmouth Street Methodist Church, Bridgwater

 11.30am    Elsa, the Lioness
                   with Joy and George Adamson 

12.00         On the Twelfth Day
                   a film produced by George K. Arthur devised and directed by Wendy Toye with sets and costumes
                    designed by Ronald Searle, an 
amusing fantasy based on the traditional Christmas song

12.20pm    Seeing and Believing 
                   The Divine Guest
                   A Christmas theme illustrated by Margaret Tyzack
                   John Breslin , Philip Latham and The Galliards with Robin Hall and Jimmie Macgregor


12.40pm   Mountain Pastures 
                  second showing of the documentary film from Italy

  1.00pm   Welcome Christmas 
                  with David Hughes, Doreen Hume, Howell Glynne, Osian Ellis, The Fenland Singers 

  1.30pm    No Room for Wild Animals
                   What hope is there for wildlife in the face of advancing civilisation? A second showing of this notable film

  2.30pm    The Singing Years  
                    songs of the century

  3.00pm    Brian Rix presents...
                    "Flat Spin" a farce

   4.25pm   Quillow and the Giant 
                   starring Jeannie Carson also starring
                   Cardew Robinson, Dick Emery and Biff McGuire who wrote the story for television


   5.20pm   Overland Trail 
                    Vigilantes of Montana 

    6.10pm  The News

    6.15pm   A Festival of Carols 

                   from Britain, Denmark, Finland, Germany and Holland

    7.05pm  What Manner of Child...
                    a Christmas film

    7.25pm  What's My Line?
                   Chairman, Eamonn Andrews 
                   Panel : Isobel Barnett , Barbara Kelly, Arthur Askey 
                   Maurice Edelman, M.F. and a mystery guest celebrity 


  7.55pm    Billy Cotton Band Show
                  with Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques

  8.40pm    Sunday Night Play
                   The Barretts of Wimpole Street

 10.25pm   The News

 10.30pm   Peter Ustinov 

                   Another chance to see an After Supper Conversation with Cliff Michelmore,
                   Derek Hart, Kenneth Allsop


  11.30pm   Tibor Varga 
                    violin recital with Geoffrey Parsons (piano), presented by Patricia Foy

  11.55pm   Midnight Mass of the Nativity 
                   from the Roman Catholic Church of St Francis of Assisi, Gorton 

   1.30am   Closedown


  Christmas Day Monday 25th December 1961

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  9.00am    Gwyl y Geni-
                    a Christmas Service in Welsh
                    
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield, Crystal Palace only)

  9.29am    Headline News

  9.30am    Good Christian Men, Rejoice

                   A programme of Christmas carols, hymns, and music presented by the boys of 
                   Chethams Hospital School, Manchester 

10.00am   Sambo and the Snow Mountains
                  second showing of the BBC film of a story by Walter De La Mare with music specially 
                 
composed by John Addison 

10.30am   O Come, All Ye Faithful 
                  morning service from St Werburgh's Parish Church, Derby

11.30am    Max Bygraves
                  invites you to Meet the Kids in hospital this Christmas 

12.20pm    Citizen James
                   starring Sidney James

12.50pm    Be My Guest 
                   says Joan Regan

  1.25pm   Tenderfoot
                  Stranger in the Town 

  2.10pm   Appeal 
                  on behalf of the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, by Sir Malcolm Sergeant

   2.15pm   The Christmas Music 
                   from Messiah by Handel recorded at Llandaff Cathedral, Cardiff 

  3.00pm   The Queen
                  Her Majesty's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth 

  3.07pm   Billy Smart's Circus

  4.05pm   The World of Walt Disney

                   introduced by David Jacobs

   5.15pm   Film : Just William's Luck (1947)
                   with William Graham as William

  6.45pm  The News

  6.55pm   Christmas at Canterbury

                  The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Michael Ramsey gives a Christmas address in a Service of
                  Lessons and Carols from the Cathedral Church of Christ, Canterbury 


    7.25pm  This Is Your Life
                   with Eamonn Andrews

  8.00pm   The Black and White Minstrel Show
                    starring the Mitchell Minstrels

   9.00pm    Film : Rebecca (1940)
                     starring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine

  11.05pm   Late Night News

  11.10pm   Television Dancing Club

                   special Christmas edition

  11.55pm   The Power of Gentleness 
                   postscript to Christmas by the Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge

   12.00        The Weather Man
                    Closedown


  Boxing Day Tuesday 26th December 1961

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 10.55am  Telewele
                  
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only)

 11.20am  Headline News

 11.22am  The Red Balloon

                 another showing of this prize-winning film from France

 11.55am   Juke Box Jury
                  a new disc-a Hit or a Miss? 
                  Comments and opinions on the latest pop releases

 12.30pm   Boxing Day Grandstand 
                   including Motor Racing from Brands Hatch,
                   Racing from Kempton Park, Amateur Boxing from from Cardiff,
                   Ice Skating from Garmisch, Sports Results and News Service


  5.00pm   The Princess and the Pea 
                   musical play based on Hans Andersen 's story "The Real Princess"

  5.50pm   The News

   5.55pm   Today's Sport

                   introduced by Kenneth Wolstenholme 
                   Today's sporting headlines and the classified football results 


  6.00pm    Town and Around
                    news magazine for South-East England
                    
News from the South (Rowridge only)
                    Weather

  6.05pm    Here's Harry
                    starring Harry Worth
                    This week: 
                    The Last Train with Harold Goodwin, Reginald Marsh, Patrick Connor, Gerald Andersen 
                    Stuart Saunders, Tony Melody, Jack Woolgar, 
Leslie Clark 


  6.30pm    Cinderella
                    from the Wimbledon Theatre, London starring Dickie Valentine and Jill Day

  8.00pm    Brian Rix presents...
                    "Will Any Gentlemen?" a farce

  9.30pm    The News

  9.40pm    Maigret 

                    A Crime for Christmas

 10.30pm    Film: I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
                     starring Ginger Rogers Joseph Gotten with Shirley Temple 

  11.55pm    The Weather Man
                    Closedown
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