Christmas Eve Saturday 24th December 1938
BBCTV
11.00am Film for
Demonstration Purposes
3.00pm Charley's Aunt, by Brendon Thomas, produced
by Desmond Davis, with
Harold Scott, Sydney King, Holland
Bennett, John Wood, Ena Dorne,
Helen
Perry, AR Whatmore, William Stephens, Joan Henley and Peggy Simpson
4.30pm Closedown
9.00pm La Chauve-Souris (The Bat Theatre),
in
selections from their repertoire, presented by Philip Bate
9.30pm British Movietone News
9.40pm Christmas Cards I should like to have sent,
by Nicholas Bentley
9.55pm Cartoon film- Whoopee Party
10.00pm Old Time
Music Hall- A Christmas Party, presented by Harry Pringle, with
Charles Coborn, Harry Champion, Vesta Victoria, Marie Lloyd Jnr, Daisy
Darmer,
Arthur
Reece, Marie Kendall, Charlie Lee (dancer), Ada Cerito; chairman Peter Popp
10.40pm News
11.00pm Closedown
Christmas Day Sunday
25th December 1938
BBCTV
2.30pm Moonshine, a fantasy by Laurence Housman,
produced by Jan Bussell, with
Hugh
Casson. Lawrence Hanray, Frank Reynolds, Leonard Sachs and
String, Shadow and Glove Puppets, manipulated by Ann Hogarth, Kitty
Tyzac,
Victor
Hotchkiss and Don Gemmell
2.50pm A Christmas Party in the Children's Ward of
St George's Hospital;
FH
Grisewood and Margaretta Scott welcome guests including
Father
Christmas, Leonard Henry, Mac of the Children's Hour, Eric-Cardi and
a
troupe of clowns from Bertram Mills' Circus at Olympia
3.45pm Richard Hearne with George Nelson on Puddings,
Christmas
4.00pm Closedown
8.50pm News
9.05pm Hay Fever, a light comedy in three acts by
Noel Coward
11.00pm Closedown
Boxing Day Monday
26th December 1938
BBCTV
3.00pm Once in a Lifetime, a comedy by George S
Kaufman and Moss Hart, produced by Eric Crozier
4.30pm Closedown
9.00pm Cabaret cartoons, by Harry Rutherford
9.45pm British Movietone News
9.55pm The Cab, by John Taylor, produced by Fred
Donovan,
with
Charles Victor, Edgar Bruce, Janet Barrow and Gerald Jerome
10.25pm News
10.45pm
Closedown
Tuesday 27th
December 1938 (Bank Holiday)
BBCTV
3.00pm Richard of Bordeaux a play by Gordon Daviot
4.30pm Closedown
9.00pm Out of the Bag
9.30pm Gaumont British News
9.40pm Snow and Ice a winter sports programme
10.10pm Coffee Stall
(Christmas Edition)
10.25pm News
10.45pm Closedown
