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BBC TELEVISION 11.30am-12.30 Service from St Martins-in-the-Field 5.00pm For the Children 5.20-6.00 Children's Christmas Party 8.00 Newsreel 8.15 The Season's Greetings 9.00 A Christmas Carol 10.30-10.45 News (sound only) |
BBC TELEVISION 10.20am-11.20 Service from St Paul's Cathedral 3.20pm FILM: Wallaby Jim of the Islands 5.30-6.00 For the Children 7.30 Television's Christmas Party featuring Terry-Thomas, Jewel and Warriss, Norman Wisdom and Ethel Revnell 9.00 When We Are Married by JB Priestley, with Frank Pettingell and Raymond Huntley 10.45 Newsreel 11.00-11.15 News (sound only) |
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BBC TELEVISION 11.00am-12.00 Christmas Day Service from St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney 3.20pm FILM: Swiss Miss starring Laurel and Hardy 4.20 Interlude 4.30 Andy Pandy and The Flowerpot Men 5.00-6.00 Children's Television: One Way Genie A play 7.30 Television's Second Christmas Party featuring Norman Wisdom, Ethel Revnell, Arthur Askey, Betty Driver, Tommy Cooper, John Slater and Frankie Howerd 9.15 A Christmas Card from Korea 9.30 1066 and All That with Harry Locke 11.00-11.15 Weather and News (sound only) | 
BBC TELEVISION 11.00am-12.00 Christmas Day Service from Wellow, Somerset 3.15pm Christmas Journey Round the World 4.15 Watch with Mother 5.00-6.00 Children's Television 7.25 Weather Chart 7.30 Television's Christmas Party featuring Terry-Thomas, Norman Wisdom, Arthur Askey, John Slater and Max Bygraves 9.15 Newsreel 9.30 Interlude 9.40 Dear Octopus Dodie Smith's comedy 11.25-11.40 News (sound only) |
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BBC TELEVISION 11.00am-12.00 Morning Service from St Ann's Parish Church, Manchester 3.15pm-4.15 The Season's Greetings 4.45 Children's Television 6.00-6.05 Associated Football Results 7.25 Weather 7.30 News 7.45 Wireless for the Blind 7.50 Television's Christmas Party featuring Arthur Askey, Tommy Cooper, Fred Emney, Harry Secombe, Wilfred Pickles and Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin 9.30 A Party for Christmas A comedy by NC Hunter 11.00-11.15 News (sound only) | 
BBC TELEVISION 11.00am-12.00 Service from St Martin's Church, Birmingham 3.00pm The Queen's Broadcast (sound only) 3.15 A Christmas Visit to Disneyland 4.45 Watch with Mother 5.00-6.00 Children's Television 7.30 News 7.45 Music for You with Gigli and Miss Joan Hammond 9.00 Christmas Parties in Sheffield, Bournemouth and London 9.45 Bird in Hand John Drinkwater's comedy 11.15 Today in Bethlehem A film 11.25 News |
| | BBC TELEVISION 11.00am-12.00 A Family Service from Warwick Road Congregational Church, Coventry 2.55pm The Duke of Edinburgh speaks from the Royal Yacht Britannia in South Pacific waters (sound only) 3.00 The Queen (sound only) 3.15 The Variety Theatre of China 3.30 Grand Circus from Paris 4.30 Puss in Boots told by Johnny Morris 4.50 The Lone Ranger 5.15 The Ice Crackers with Max Wall | 5.45 Today's Sport 5.50 Weather and What's On Tonight 6.00 The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart. Act II, from Germany 7.00 News 7.10 Christmas Disneyland 7.45 Pantomania, or Dick Whittington by Eric Sykes, with Jean Kent, Sylvia Peters, Frankie Howerd, Hattie Jacques, Billy Cotton, Spike Milligan, Fred Emney, David Attenborough 8.45 Home is the Sailor by Arthur Macrae 10.00 Music for You with Eric Robinson 11.15 News and weather |
| | BBC TELEVISION 10.30am-11.30 Service from the recently reconsecrated Church of St Andrew, Plymouth 2.30pm Royal Prologue: Crown and Commonwealth 3.00 The Queen 3.15 Billy Smart's Family Party 4.00 Children's Television 4.20 FILM: Mrs Mike starring Dick Powell 6.00 News and weather 6.05 Today's Sport 6.15 Opera from Munich: Mozart's Don Juan Act I, sung in German | 6.55 Wireless for the Blind: An Appeal 7.00 News 7.05 Gene Kelly Songs and dances from the films of Gene Kelly 7.30 Pantomania presents The Babes in the Wood with Eamonn Andrews, Derek Bond, Kenneth Connor, Sam Costa, Peter Dimmock, Charlie Drake, Tony Hancock, Benny Hill, Sid James, Cliff Michelmore, Jean Metcalfe, Derek Hart, Bill Maynard, Jack Payne, Sylvia Peters, Ted Ray, Huw Wheldon, Peter Haigh 8.30 When We Are Married by JB Priestley 10.00 Music for You Singers and ballet 11.00 News and weather 11.10-11.20 Epilogue |
| | BBC TELEVISION 11.00am Service from Westbury Park Methodist Church, Bristol 11.50-12.20 Cerdyn Nadolig I Gymru Gyfan (Wenvoe, Blaenplwyf, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only) 2.30pm Royal Prologue 3.00 The Queen's Christmas Message 3.15 Billy Smart's Family Party 4.15 FILM: North-West Stampede 5.30 Plapp A film about a seabird 6.00 News | 6.05 On the Twelfth Day 6.25 Christmas Night with Variety Stars featuring The Charlie Chester Show, Tony Hancock, Charlie Drake In..., The Ted Ray Show, Whack-O! 7.40 Harry Belafonte 8.25 FILM: Top Hat 10.00 News 10.05 The Hurt Mind An appeal by Mr Christopher Mayhew MP 10.10 The Black Eye by James Bridie 11.40 The Candlemaker Film cartoon 11.52-12.00 Christmas Day Epilogue |
| | BBC TELEVISION 8.30am George Mitchell Glee Club and Dennis Wilson Quartet 9.00 The Queen (sound only) 9.03 Dartington Christmas Festival 9.30-10.00 Gwyl y Geni (Wenvoe, Blaenplwyf, Llandrindod Wells, Holme Moss, Sutton Coldfield only) 11.00 Morning Service from St George's Parish Church, Stockport 11.45 Programme from the International Pestalozzi Children's Villages 12.15pm Meet Mr Kringle Film comedy 1.00 News summary 1.15 Max Jaffa's Trio Alicia Markova and the Linden Singers 1.35 Days Before Christmas Canadian film 2.00 Boots and Saddles | 2.25 While Angels Watch 3.00 Chipperfield's Circus Festival 4.00 Billy Cotton's Christmas Party 4.45 Barrie's A Kiss for Cinderella 6.15 News summary 6.20 Christmas Night with the Stars featuring The Jimmy Logan Show, Charlie Drake In..., Whack-O! 7.35 Songs of Many Lands with Harry Belafonte 8.20 FILM: High Noon 9.45 News summary 9.50 Bleak House 10.20 Make Way for Music 10.50 Epilogue followed by Weather Report |
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