BBC CHRISTMAS TV 1936
Christmas Eve
Thursday 24th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary
followed by Bransby Williams as Scrooge
3.15pm News Reel
3.25pm Interval, Weather,
followed by Christmas Party
Charlie
Lee
Ada
Cerito
Harry
Bedford
Lottie
Lennox
Tom
Leamore
Chairman, Bert Terrell
The BBC
Television Orchestra
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum
Presented by Harry Pringle
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Programme Summary
followed by Bransby Williams as Scrooge
9.15pm News Reel
9.25pm Interval, Time, Weather,
followed by Christmas Party
Charlie
Lee
Ada
Cerito
Harry
Bedford
Lottie
Lennox
Tom
Leamore
Chairman, Bert Terrell
The BBC
Television Orchestra
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum
Presented by Harry Pringle
Christmas Day Friday
25th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary,
followed by Christmas Turkey, a demonstration of carving by BJ Hulbert
3.15pm News Reel
3.25pm A Lonely Christmas Arctic by Ernest
Shackleton
3.30pm Picture Page (fourteenth edition) Christmas
Number :- a magazine programme
of
topicaland general interest ; produced by
G More
O'Farrell, with Joan Miller
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Christmas Carols: The Singing Boys from St
Mary-of-the-Angels Song School
9.10pm A Seasonal Tour through the Empire, with a
commentary written and spoken by
Cecil Lewis
9.20pm Some Unusual Christmases by Commander AB
Campbell
9.30pm News Reel
9.35pm Television Party
Distinguished artists from the stage and screen will be the guests of
the BBC.
Cecil
Lewis will act as host
10.00pm Closedown
Boxing Day Saturday
26th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary followed by Bruce McLeod's
Punch and Judy and
Sutherland Felce (conjuror and comedian)
3.15pm News Reel
3.25pm Variety
presented by Cecil Madden ; cartoons by Harry Rutherford,
variety by The Del Rios (rope-spinning), Marion and Irma (symphony in
motion),
Edward
Cooper (songs at the pianoforte), Nina Devitt (personality girl),
Larry
Kemble, Walker and Smart (comedy jugglers)
9.00pm Programme Summary followed by Bruce McLeod's
Punch and Judy
9.15pm News Reel
9.25pm Cabaret
SHERKOT
Silent
Comic
O'SHEA
AND
JOAN
Dancers
EDWARD
COOPER
Entertainer
ERNEST
SHANNON
Impressions
SUZANNE
McCLAY
Diseuse
MARION
AND IRMA
Symphony in Motion
THE
LUCERNE SKATERS
Presentation by CECIL MADDEN
10.00pm Closedown
Sunday 27th December
1936
No programmes
Bank Holiday
Monday 28th December 1936
BBCTV
3.00pm Programme Summary, followed by Irish
Players The Workhouse Ward, a comedy by
Lady
Gregory, with the Irish Players: Kathleen Drago, Fred O'Donovan & Tony
Quinn
3.25pm British Movietone News
3.35pm Variety
Joan Collier (singer), Rob Wilton (comedian), James Stewart,Wendy Toye
&
company, with the BBCTV Orchestra, conductor Hyam Greenbaum
4.00pm Closedown
9.00pm Programme Summary, followed by Irish Players
The Workhouse Ward, a comedy by
Lady
Gregory, with the Irish Players: Kathleen Drago, Fred O'Donovan & Tony
Quinn
9.25pm Gaumont British News
9.35pm Variety
Irene Prador (singer), Rob Wilton (comedian), Harry Scott (songs),
Wendy
Toye & co, with the BBCTV Orchestra, conductor Hyam Greenbaum
