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 Jack and Jill
a
pantomime, excerpts from Emile Littler's Pantomime
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
from
St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham
10.15pm Weather
Forecast and News (sound only)
Christmas Day
Thursday 25th December 1952
BBCTV
11.00am Christmas Day
Service
from
St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney
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
featuring Norman Wisdom, Ethel Revnell, Arthur Askey, Betty Driver,
Tommy Cooper,
John
Slater and Frankie Howerd
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 Cicely Courtneidge in Ivor Novello's Gay's the
Word
with
Thorley Walters based on an idea by Jack Hulbert
10.00pm Pouishnoff
at the
Piano
10.20pm Weather
Forecast and News (sound only)
