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Christmas 1956

 Christmas Eve 1956 - Monday 24th December 1956
BBC Television
3pm Mainly for Women
3:45pm Watch With Mother
5pm Children's Television
7pm A Christingle for Christmas (film from Northern Ireland)
7:15pm Film "Stagecoach" directed by John Ford
8:45pm "This Is Your Life"
9:15pm Panorama
10pm Off the Record
10:30pm Dylan Thopmas's "The Outing" told by Dyland Thomas
10:45pm News
11pm Menotti's opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors"
11:50pm First Communion of Christmas Day in York Minster
1am Weather

Christmas Eve 1956 - Monday 24th December 1956
ITA - Associated Rediffusion (London)
4pm Monday Club
5-6pm Jolly Good Time
6:30pm Carol Service
7pm Time and News
7:5pm Story: "A Bonus for Christmas with Max Bygraves
7:30pm Make Up Your Mind!
8:00pm "Boyd, Q.C" starring Michael Dennison
8:30pm Joan and Leslie
9pm "Frontier Doctor"
9:30pm "Two for the Money" with Bernard Braden
10pm Four Star Playhouse: Charles Boyer and Maureen O'Sullivan in "The Gift"
10:25pm Film "The Natvity of Jesus Christ"
10:46pm Time, News and Weather
11pm "Something in the City" starring Richard Hearne, Ellen Pollock, and Garry Marsh
11:55pm Pontifical High Mass from Westminster Cathedral

Christmas Day 1956 - Tuesday 25th December 1956
BBC Television
11am Service, from Warwick Road Congregational Church, Coventry
2:55pm The Duke of Edinburgh's Message (sound only)
3pm The Queen's Christmas Message (sound only)
3:15pm Variety Theatre of China (telerecording)
3:30pm Grand Circus (from Paris)
4:30pm "Puss in Boots" filmed story by Johnny Morris
4:50pm "The Lone Ranger"
5:15pm Max Wall in "Ice Crackers"
5:45pm Today's Sport
5:50pm Weather and What's On Tonight
6pm Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" Act II (from Germany)
7pm News
7:10pm Christmas Disneyland
7:45pm Pantomania or "Dick Whittington"
8:45pm "Home is the Sailor" by Arthur Macrae
10pm Music for You
11:15pm News and Weather

Christmas Day 1956 - Tuesday 25th December 1956
ITA - Associated Rediffusion (London)
11:30am-12:10pm Service. St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London
3pm The Queen's Message, followed by "Commonwealth Prospect"
3:30pm Musical Programme "Close Up"
4pm Film: "The File on Voronov"
4:30pm Buffalo Bill, Jr in "Six-Gun Symphony"
5-6pm Jolly Good Time
7pm About Religion
7:25pm News
7:31pm "Do You Trust Your Wife?"
8pm Eleanor Summerfield in "My Wife's Sister"
8:30pm Musical adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" starring Frdric March
9:30pm Play: "The Pay Off" with Edward Chapman and Avis Scott
10:46pm Time, News and Weather
11pm Epilogue

Boxing Day 1956 - Wednesday 26th December 1956
BBC Television
1:30pm Horse Racing from Kempton Park
3pm Film: "The Kansan"
4:30pm Watch With Mother
4:45pm Children's Television
5:45pm Today's Sport
7pm News
7:10pm Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly
7:40pm Bobby Howes, Sally Bazely and Leslie Phillips in "Beauty and the Beast"
9pm "The Light of Heart" by Emlyn Williams
10:30pm Old-Time Music-Hall
11:30pm News and Weather

Boxing Day 1956 - Wednesday 26th December 1956
ITA - Associated Rediffusion (London)
4pm "Folics on Ice"
5pm Jolly Good Time
5:55-6pm Sport
7pm Time and News
7:12pm Weather
7:14pm Sporting Outlook
7:30pm "Double Youe Money
8pm Play: "Action for Slander" starring Clive Brook and Ann Todd
9:30pm "My Wildest Dream"
10pm "Two's Company"
10:30pm "It's Song Time"
10:46pm Time, News and Weather
11pm Epilogue

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