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Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 10h

#Christmas 1965 TV Times: Featuring The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; Danger Man; This Week; Patterns Of Power; Goodnight; News Headlines; News; Criss Cross Quiz and Granada In The North

This is a page from a television and radio programme listings magazine for Granada Television. The listings include Criss Cross Quiz, Patterns Of Power, News, Danger Man, This Week, Granada In The North, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, News Headlines and Goodnight. There is an advert for Player's Gold Leaf cigarettes.

Featuring:

Criss Cross Quiz
Danger Man
Goodnight
Granada In The North
News
News Headlines
Patterns Of Power
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
This Week

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 11h

#Christmas 1983 TV Times: Editorial featuring Alphabet Zoo; The Snowman; Madabout Special; Matthew Kelly; Ralph McTell; Nerys Hughes and Irene Handl

This magazine page features articles about upcoming TV shows. One article asks if Father Christmas will forget to leave a present for Duster the Dog, and another invites viewers to watch The Snowman. Matthew Kelly will appear on Madabout Special.

Editorial featuring:

Alphabet Zoo
Irene Handl
Madabout Special
Matthew Kelly
Nerys Hughes
Ralph McTell
The Snowman

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 14h

#Christmas 1966 Radio Times: Featuring Top Of The Pops '66; Grandstand; Make Mine A Million; The Munsters; The Newcomers; Jonny Quest; The Corsican Brothers; Town And Around; Medicine Today; Laurel And Hardy: Beau Chumps; Today's Sport; The Glory Of Sail; Babar The Little Elephant and more

Listings for BBC-1 and BBC-2 on December 22 and December 27, 1966 are provided. The schedules include children's shows, films, sports programming, music, and series. Featured programs include Top Of The Pops '66 and Grandstand. Advertisements for Galleon holidays, Royal Navy recruitment, Clarksons holidays and Horizon holidays are present.

Featuring:

Babar The Little Elephant
Grandstand
Jackanory
Jonny Quest
Laurel And Hardy: Beau Chumps
Look
Make Mine A Million
Medicine Today
Play School
The Corsican Brothers
The Engineer In Wonderland
The Glory Of Sail
The Munsters
The Newcomers
Today's Sport
Top Of The Pops '66
Town And Around
Watch With Mother

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 18h

#Christmas 1938 Radio Times: Featuring The Babes in the Wood; The Kentucky Minstrels; The BBC Orchestra; Mer Pert'; Swing Music from France; Close Down; As Northern Ireland; The Daily Service; Orchestra and more

READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/a2213c6428384ec98f675faac267a538?page=92

Programme listings for various BBC channels across the UK, including North, West of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The listings feature a mix of news, music, drama, and children's programming. The BBC Chorus and Orchestras are described, along with information for potential amateur singers. Several adverts are displayed.

Featuring:

A Sonata Recital
As Northern Ireland
Close Down
Cotton and Wheat Prices
Cynghanau'r Oes Hon
Dance Music
Drych Y Mis
Glyn Samuel and his Dance Band
Gramophone Records
Mer Pert'
News Summary
News Talks and Sport
One Day This Week
Orchestra
Parry Jones and Orchestra
Pawb at Y Pentan'
Regional Programme
Swing Music from France
The BBC Orchestra
The Babes in the Wood
The Children's Hour
The Daily Service
The Fourth News
The Kentucky Minstrels
Weather Forecast for Farmers and Shipping
West of England Programme
Western Announcements and Market Prices

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 19h

#Christmas 1976 Radio Times (page 120)

This is a collection of images of envelopes received after historical events, from the first issue of the Penny Black in 1840 to Scott's Antarctic expedition in 1908. Also included is an advert for After Eight wafer-thin mints, linking them to envelopes received after the After Eight product launch in 1976. The images and text are presented to suggest that some envelopes have been better received than others, creating an advert.

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 23h

#Christmas 1962 Radio Times: Editorial featuring The Daily Service; The Badger Game; The Wild and the Willing; Let's Get Married; Russ Conway; Anthony Newley; Lord Reith and Acker Bilk

This is a page from Radio Times for December 27, 1962. It includes articles on religious broadcasting, the experience of release from institutions, and a review of the top pop songs of 1962. There are adverts for travel to Ireland and Continental Europe, and a page of programming for Your Weekend Sunday including Parkin's Primitives, Band Show and Music in Camera.

Editorial featuring:

Acker Bilk
Anthony Newley
Let's Get Married
Lord Reith
Russ Conway
The Badger Game
The Daily Service
The Wild and the Willing

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 1d

#Christmas 2007 Radio Times: Featuring AFI's 100 Years...100 Greatest Movies; House Weekend; Robin Hood; Casualty; Masterpieces of Vienna; Three Men and a Baby; Hot Fuzz; Lost Chords; Identity; Children; Something to Talk About; Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs; Mornings; Fimbles and more

The page features TV listings for December 29, 2007, including shows on BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4 and Five. It highlights some of the day's choices and feature articles on the shows.

Featuring:

40 Guns to Apache Pass
A Grizzly New Year's Tale
AFI's 100 Years...100 Greatest Movies
American Dragon
Any Dream Will Do: the Winner's Story
BBC News Regional News; Weather
Bernard
Best of Friends
Breakfast
CBBC
CBeebies
CITV
Casualty
Celebrity MasterChef
Children
Chuckle Vision
Come Dine with Me
Coronation Street
Dancing Cranes of Sweden
Dennis the Menace
Dogstar
Doodlebops
Dora the Explorer
Emu
Everybody Hates Chris
Fimbles
Final Score
Flog It!
Football Focus
Football Italiano Highlights
Franklin
Friends
GMTV
Goalissimo
Hana's Helpline
Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Hider in the House
Horrid Henry
Hot Fuzz
House Weekend
ITV News; Weather Regional News; Weather
Identity
Jim Jam & Sunny
Kim Possible
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Lost Chords
Masterpieces of Vienna
Meerkat Manor
Milkshake!
MobileAct Unsigned: the Live Final
Mornings
My Parents Are Aliens
News Watch
News; Weather
Noah's Ark
Pocoyo
Racing
Ready Steady Cook
Robin Hood
Rugby World Cup Review
Saturday Kitchen
Shaun the Sheep
Something to Talk About
SpongeBob SquarePants
Step Inside
Stupid
Sunrise
Supernormal
T4
The Beeps
The Cat in the Hat
The Hoobs
The Morning Line
The Replacements
The Story of Tracy Beaker
The Treacle People
Thomas-Calling All Engines
Three Men and a Baby
Thunderpants
Tikkabilla
Toonattik
Totally Doctor Who: The Infinite Quest
Wakey! Wakey!
Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave
Watch My Chops
Weakest Link
What's New Scooby Doo?

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 1d

#Christmas 1988 TV Times: Featuring Remembering Marilyn; Run The Gauntlet Christmas Special; Othello; Tina Turner Break Every Rule; Movie Premiere: The Hound Of The Baskervilles; The Cosby Show; Fritz Lang: Fury; Battleflag; Executive Stress; Faerie Tale Theatre; With Hilarious Consequences and more

This is a television listings page from TVTimes for Christmas Tuesday on Anglia and ITV. It includes a variety of shows, films, and specials. Highlights include Remembering Marilyn, Run The Gauntlet Christmas Special, Othello, Tina Turner Break Every Rule, Movie Premiere: The Hound Of The Baskervilles, and The Cosby Show. There are also articles and advertisements throughout the page.

Featuring:

America's Top 10
American Football
Anne Of Green Gables
Battleflag
Boon
Brookside
Executive Stress
Faerie Tale Theatre
Fifty Years On
Fritz Lang: Fury
ITN News
Movie Premiere: The Hound Of The Baskervilles
News Summary and Weather
Othello
Prove It
Remembering Marilyn
Run The Gauntlet Christmas Special
Shane
The Bill
The Cosby Show
The Match
Tina Turner Break Every Rule
With Hilarious Consequences

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 1d

#Christmas 1982 Radio Times: Featuring The Saturday Film: The Magnificent Seven; Saturday SuperStore; Saturday Cinema: It's a Wonderful Life; Grandstand; World Darts; Rod and Emu's Saturday Special; New Year's Day Concert; Jane; The All-New Pink Panther Show; Common Sense; Final Score; News and more

This is a page from a television and radio programme listings magazine, detailing the broadcast schedule for New Year's Day 1983. It includes shows on BBC1 and BBC2, covering sports, children's programming, films, and news. The page also features advertisements for travel and photography services, showcasing destinations like Denmark and Eastbourne. A number of celebrities appear in these programmes, with several of them featuring as presenters.

Featuring:

Common Sense
Final Score
Football Focus
Grandstand
International Basketball
Jane
New Year's Day Concert
News
News and Sport
Racing from Newbury
Rod and Emu's Saturday Special
Rugby League
Saturday Cinema: It's a Wonderful Life
Saturday SuperStore
Sport/Regional News
The All-New Pink Panther Show
The Saturday Film: The Magnificent Seven
World Darts

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 1d

#Christmas 2009 Radio Times: Featuring Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols; My Alcoholic Friend; Sport Review of the Year; Live Sport; News at Bedtime; Midnight Mass; The Archers; Thought for the Day; Classic FM Christmas Concert at Rochester Cathedral; Organising Salvation and more

This page is from a radio listings magazine. It features the radio broadcasts for the Christmas Eve, including shows on BBC Radio and other stations like Talksport and Absolute Radio. The listings include details of various programs including news, music, comedy, and special holiday content.

Featuring:

2 Live Manilow at Proms in the Park
6mas 6 Mix Special
A Choral Fanfare
A Singular Passage
Adam and Joe
Adrian Durham and Darren Gough
Adrian Goldberg
Afternoon Play: Black Hearts In Battersea
Alan Brazil and Ronnie Irani
Alan Carr's Office Party
Andy Townsend and Mike Parry
Andy Zaltzman's History of the Third Millennium
Annon
Another Chance to Hear this Late-Night Jazz Prom
BBC Proms 2009
Bach
Beeethoven
Bimie Rock Replies
Brass and Carols
Breakfast With Alice US
Breakfast With Rob Cowan
Business Daily
Business News
Cbeebies on BBC Radio 7
Cerys Matthews
Cheltenham Festival Highlights
Chris Hawkins
Christopher Herrick and Jeremy Spurgeon
Classic FM Christmas Concert at Rochester Cathedral
Classical Collection
Composer of the Week: John Rutter
Craig Charles
Crossing Continents
Dancehall
Darren Reddick
Day-by-Day
Dennis Potter
Devotional Sounds
Dip in the Pool
Dippin Bhmarah
Doherty + List O Mania
Drive
Farming Today
Fearne Cotton
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Front Row
Gaggan Grewal
George Galloway
Greg James
Group of Three: TV chefs
Guy Garvey
Halton & Simpson-Sea
Hawksbee and Jacobs
Haydn
Haydn Sonata in E flat
In Our Time
Joan Bakewell Discusses Belief with Cambridge University Lecturer and Muslim Convert Tim Winter
John Humphrys and James Naughtie
Jon Boden in Leigh-on-Sea
Jonathan Orend
Keeping Tradition Alive at Christmas
Ken Bruce
Kissy Sell Out
LW Daily Service
Lark
Last Week's Interviewee
Late Junction
Live Breakfast
Live Sport
Liza Tarbuck's Christmas Wrapping
Mendelssohn Psalm 42
Midnight Mass
MistaJam
Morecambe and Wise
Murray and Lovejoy
My Alcoholic Friend
New Generations Artists
New in DJs We Trust
News Outlook
News Summary
and more

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 1d

#Christmas 2010 Radio Times: Featuring New Year's Eve Celebrations; Jools' Annual Hootenanny; Channel 4's Comedy Gala; EastEnders; Coronation Street; Glee; Shark Tale; Casablanca; Elizabeth: the Golden Age; Music Room: Howard Goodall with Dame Evelyn Glennie; Just William; Father Teds and more

This page contains television and radio listings for New Year's Eve. It includes a variety of programs, from comedy galas and soap operas to films and music specials. Several sports events are listed. There are also feature articles on some of the shows.

Featuring:

Casablanca
Channel 4's Comedy Gala
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Edwardian Farm
Elizabeth: the Golden Age
Father Teds
Friday Night Is Music Night
Glee
Jools' Annual Hootenanny
Just William
Music Room: Howard Goodall with Dame Evelyn Glennie
NHL Ice Hockey: Anaheim Ducks v Philadelphia Flyers
NHL Ice Hockey: New Jersey Devils v Atlanta Thrashers
New Year's Eve Celebrations
Prince's Trust Rock Gala: the Highlights
Shark Tale
Ski Jumping: Four Hills, HS140 qualifying from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Wallace & Gromit's Family Film Ice Age

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 1d

#Christmas 1987 TV Times: Editorial featuring Inspector Morse; Colin Dexter; John Thaw and Kevin Whately

This is a magazine page promoting "Inspector Morse" starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately. It includes a short story by Colin Dexter and an advertisement for Canberra cruises, inviting readers to experience British culture while travelling to foreign destinations. The cruise ad describes ships as offering foreign travel at low prices. An excerpt from Dexter's short story is printed on the page.

Editorial featuring:

Colin Dexter
Inspector Morse
John Thaw
Kevin Whately

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 2d

#Christmas 1962 Radio Times: Featuring National Theatre; The Clitheroe Kid; The Arthur Haynes Show; Second Test Match; Inspector Scott Investigates; New Year Revels; Round-Up of Events; Housewives' Choice; Daily Service; Top of the Morning; Chester Harriott; The News; The Dales and more

This document contains radio and television listings for December 27, 1962. The listings include a variety of programmes across multiple channels, including news, music, drama, and sports coverage. There is also coverage of feature articles. This is a listing of entertainment options available on this day.

Featuring:

A Story At Bedtime
Abroad Last Summer
Afternoon Theatre
As You Were
Big Ben
Chester Harriott
Concert Hour
Daily Service
Desert Island Discs
Five To Ten
For Dancing
Frontier America
German For Beginners
Housewives' Choice
How Now
How Now To Listen
Inspector Scott Investigates
Late News
Letter From America
Lift Up Your Hearts
Listen With Mother
Love In The Doghouse
Marching and Waltzing
Market Report
Market Trends
Melody On The Move
Melody Showcase
Mischa Elman
Morning Music
Morning Story
Mr. Acker Bilk Requests...
Music At Night
Music Ho!
Music While You Work
Music-Hall
National Theatre
New Year Revels
New Year's Eve
News
News And Radio Newreel
Programme Parade
Racing Results
Recital
Robert and Gaby Casadesus
Round-Up of Events
Roundabout
Sam Costa
Scottish Dance Music
Second Test Match
Sing Us The Old Songs
Singing Children
Snapshots
Sports Review
Talking About Music
Talking Children
Ten O'Clock
The Archaeologist
The Archers
The Arthur Haynes Show
The Best of Everything
The Clitheroe Kid
The Dales
The News
Third Programme
This Week's Composer
Today
Today's Papers
Top of the Morning
Watchnight Service
Weather
Weather Forecasts
Weather: News
Welcome Late News
Woman's Hour

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 2d

#Christmas 1953 Radio Times (page 52)

READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/02472f40ba8845c591f8bd817e564656?page=52

This is an advertisement for Cadbury's Roses chocolates, featuring two housewives visiting the factory. It highlights the rich ingredients, large-scale production methods, and the factory's garden setting with flower gardens and playing fields. The advert showcases various aspects of the chocolate-making process including the enrobing, the beginning of a 'centre,' and the gardens. It also mentions a swimming pool at Bournville.

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150 Years of Snark @snark150.bsky.social · 2d

I hope that the BBC will broadcast that radio play again latest around March/April 2026 on occasion of the 150th anniversary of #TheHuntingOfTheSnark.

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Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06sbrxh/

See also:
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Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 2d

#Christmas 1979 Radio Times: Featuring Abba in Concert; Carols For Christmas; Ed Stewart; Christmas Bells; The Queen; Kalejdoscope; Gwyn Thomas; Pete Murray's Christmas Show; Milton; Aeolian String Quartet; The Secret Garden; Christmas Appeal; Epilogue; Sir Orfeo; Peter Powell and more

These pages provide radio and television listings for Christmas Day 1979. They cover Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, and Radio 4UK, detailing the various programs scheduled throughout the day, from music shows and religious services to news broadcasts and special holiday programming.

Featuring:

A Musical Evening With Robert Tear
Abba in Concert
Aeolian String Quartet
Andy Peebles's Disco
Attenborough
Author's Mother
Byrd's Gradualia
Böhm and the Vienna Philharmonic
Carols For Christmas
Caste
Children Talking
Christmas Appeal
Christmas Bells
Christmas Day
Concert
David Hamilton
Ed Stewart
Engelbert
Engelbert Humperdinck
Epilogue
Family Favourites Forces Special
Fresh Air on 4
Gwyn Thomas
Holiday Programme
Island Encores
Just a Minute
Kalejdoscope
Keith Chegwin
Mike Read
Milton
Much More Music
Music Quiz
New Morning
News
News Summary
Overture Verdi
Paul Gambaccini
People's Service for Christmas Day
Pete Murray's Christmas Show
Peter Powell
Puss-in-Boots
Quote...Unquote
R1/2VHF: 88-91
Shipping Forecast
Sir Orfeo
Stereo With Great Pleasure
Steve Jones
Tartini
Terry Wogan
The Archers
The Choice Is Yours
The Hornblower Story
The Living World Of Jesus
The Magic of Music
The Queen
The Secret Garden
The Spinners' Christmas Party
Tuesday Night Gala Night
Weather
Yuletide in the Music-Hall

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 2d

#Christmas 2000 Radio Times: Featuring Afternoon Play: The Hunting of the Snark; Darkness Visible; Choice Grenfell; Harry Redknapp's Reject Shop; Christmas Countdown; as BBC World Service; Correspondent; Morning on 3 AM; Meridian; Purcell O Sing unto the Lord and more

Radio and television listings are provided for December 27, 2000. Channels listed include BBC Radio 1-5, Classic FM and BBC World Service. The content covers a wide range of radio programmes including music, drama, news, sports, comedy, and cultural programmes. Highlighted shows include Afternoon Play: The Hunting of the Snark and Darkness Visible.

Featuring:

21st-Century Vox
5 Live Football
5 Live Sport
A Beginner's Guide to Reggae
Afternoon Play: The Hunting of the Snark
Alex Lester
Analysis
Bach Suite No 6 in D, BW1012
Belief
Berio Folk Songs
Beyond the Beltway
Book at Bedtime: The Woodlanders
Book of the Week: Mrs Slocombe's Pussy FM only
Borodin String Quartet No 2 in D
Brahms Gestille Sehnsucht, Op 91 No 1
Breakfast
Briefing
Business
Busoni Indianisches Tagebuch: Book 1
CPE Bach Heilig, Heilig, Wq217
Case Notes
Chart
Choice Grenfell
Choral Evensong
Christmas Collection
Christmas Countdown
Composer of the Week: Tchaikovsky
Correspondent
Curiouser and Curiouser
Daily Service LW only
Danzi Wind Quintet in G minor, Op 56 No 2
Darkness Visible
Dave Pearce
Dear Sarah Bernhardt
Debussy Minuet (Petite Suite)
Drive With Peter Allen and Jane Garvey
Edge
Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No 1 in A
English Chamber Orchestra
Europe
Evening Concert
Evening Session
Everywoman
Faith
Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Farming Today
Fi Glover
Front Row
Gardeners' Question Time
Gilles Peterson-Worldwide
Glinka Kamarinskaya
Granados The Maiden and the Nightingale
Harry Redknapp's Reject Shop
Health
Heart and Soul
JC Bach Quintet in G, Op 11 No 2
Janice Long AM
Jazz Legends
Joe Brown's Christmas
John Peel's Festive 50-Part 2
Johnnie Walker
Ken Bruce
Kirsty MacColl's Cuba
Korngold, after Mendelssohn
Larsson Pastoral Suite, Op 19
Late Night Live
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No 6 in D flat
Liszt Reminiscences on Mozart's "Don Giovanni"
Louis Vierne
Lynn Parsons AM
Marais Chaconne; Rondo
Mark Griffiths
Masterworks
Maurice Dela Violin Sonatine
Menuhin: the Music Lives On
Meridian
and more

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 2d

#Christmas 2001 Radio Times: Featuring The Day the Earth Stood Still; The Three Musketeers; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; All Quiet on the Western Front; A Clockwork Orange; The End of Eden; Solaris; BBK Society; Python; The Specials; The Pure Hell of St Trinian's; The Laughing; Attack Force and more

This magazine page features television and cable film listings for a Thursday. Several channels are represented, including Carlton Cinema, Film Four, and various Sky channels. There are film listings sorted by channel and film listings sorted by time. There are also some advertisements for other programmes.

Featuring:

200 Cigarettes
A Clockwork Orange
A Cooler Climate
A Face to Kill For
A Kind of Hush
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
A Tale of Springtime
Africa Screams
Ain't Misbehavin'
Aliens
All Quiet on the Western Front
Astoria and Obelix
Attack Force
Attack Force Z
Avalanche
B.B.C. K Satyrion
B.B.C. Society
BBK Satyrion
BBK Society
Beer Money
Belle of the Yukon
Billboard Dad
Bloody Sunday
Casper Meets Wendy
Cry of the Werewolf
Disney Motionessed
Disney Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Donatello
Double Blood Street
Double Jeopardy
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Movie
Dusty
Dying to Live
F.I.S.T.
Francis Goes to the...
Hallmark X-Treme
Happy Face Murders
Here Comes the Son
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
In God We Trust
In the Company of Spies
Innocent Blood
International Velvet
Jawbreaker
Joe the Busybod
Just in Time
Kick
Kiss the Boys
Lady L
Living Blind Faith
Loretta
Loretta Claiborne
Love Letters
Malpractice
Man, Woman and Child
Message in a Bottle
Mistaken Identity
Mrs. Pollifax - Spy
Murder She Wrote
Murder She Wrote: A Story to Die For
Music of the Heart
My Teacher's Wife
Oliver Twist
One Hour the 25th
Perfect Body
Perfect Game
Plunkett and Macleane
Police Academy 4
Police Academy 5
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Postmortem
Prancer Returns
Python
Rocky VI
Runaway Virus
Shakes the Clown
Sid and Nancy
Sin of Innocence
Skin Deep
Smart Money
Solaris
Something to Sing About
Song of Hawaii
Spooky House
Tai-Pan
Target Earth
Terror on a Train
The 25th Hour
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
The Alarming
The Alarmist
The Black Legion
The Cheap Detective
The Darkling
The Day the Earth Stood Still
The End of Eden
The Faculty
and more

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 2d

#Christmas 1936 Radio Times: Featuring Christmas Songs from the Continent; Reginald Dixon; The Hastings Municipal Orchestra; A Christmas Morning Service; Weather Forecast; The BBC Dance Orchestra and more

READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/3a315e143b274640bbf429995143f7ee?page=86

This is a page of radio programme listings for Christmas Day, December 18, 1938. It includes schedules for the National Programme, Droitwich, London, West, and North channels. Featured shows include Reginald Dixon's organ recital, Christmas Songs from the Continent, The BBC Dance Orchestra, and The Hastings Municipal Orchestra. An advertisement for Exide and Drydex batteries is also present.

Featuring:

A Christmas Morning Service
A Programme of Gramophone Records
Christmas Songs from the Continent
Reginald Dixon
The BBC Dance Orchestra
The BBC Northern Orchestra
The Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra
The Hastings Municipal Orchestra
Weather Forecast

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 3d

#Christmas 1971 Radio Times (pages 104 and 105)

This magazine page features an advertisement for Martell cognac brandy alongside a feature article discussing the appeal of television and stage shows. The article highlights the abundance of thighs and bosoms, as well as the glamorous head-dresses and energetic performances of the entertainers featured on these shows.

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 3d

#Christmas 1969 Radio Times: Featuring Khavanshchina; Samuel Beckett All That Fall; The World at One; The Tony Blackburn Show; The Archers; Woman's Hour; News/Weather; The News; Programme News; Scandinavian Music; Music; New Ears for New Music; Story Time; Breakfast Special and more

This is a page from Radio Times listing programmes for New Year's Day 1969. It covers Radio 1, 2, 3 and 4. The listings include news, music, drama, comedy, and talks. Some shows are highlighted as likely to be of particular interest.

Featuring:

A Book at Bedtime
Afternoon Theatre
Album Time
Bach and Mozart
Beethoven
Breakfast Special
Coastal forecast
Crossbow
Daily Service
Farming Today
Fresh Start Magazine
Giovanni Martinelli
Heather Mixture
Home This Afternoon
I Only Want an Answer
In Practice
Invitation to Music
Just A Minute
Kenya's Tribes
Khavanshchina
Late Night Extra
Listen with Mother
Midday Music
Midweek Portrait: Life with Queen Victoria
Morning Melody
Morning Story
Music
Music at Night
New Ears for New Music
News Summary
News/Weather
Night Ride
Orchestral Concert
Pete Murray
Pete Murray's Open House
Petticoat Line
Programme News
Radio 1 Club
Radio 4 Variations
Royal Brides
Sam Costa
Samuel Beckett All That Fall
Scandinavian Music
Schütz
Semprini Serenade
South-East News
Stephen Potter
Story Time
Ten O'Clock News
Ten to Ten
Ten to Ten Tonight
The Archers
The Dave Cash Radio Programme
The Diary of Fanny Burney
The Golden Salamander
The Jimmy Young Show
The News
The Terry Wogan Show
The Tony Blackburn Show
The World at One
The World of Books
Third Programme
Waggoners' Walk NW
Weather
What's New
Woman's Hour
Youth Orchestras of the World

Old UK Christmas Listings Mags @oldukxmaslistings.bsky.social · 3d

#Christmas 1932 Radio Times (pages 24 and 25)

READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/519d78f11e6e4068a3b4dfca3909677f?page=24

This page from Radio Times, dated December 23, 1932, features a short story titled 'Here Is an SOS...' by Andrew Soutar. The story follows multiple characters who are all trying to respond to the same SOS message, including Lord and Lady Tranett, a couple in Southampton, and a woman in Liverpool. One of the characters is William Fanshawe, also known as 'Trickey' Shadd, who is in a police station at the time.

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#Christmas 1988 TV Times: Editorial featuring Minder; Miami Memoirs; Ruby Wax; Dennis Waterman; George Cole; Roy Kinnear; Mark Farmer; Arthur Daley and Terry

This is a page from a television and radio programme listings magazine. It features feature articles about the shows Minder and Miami Memoirs, and the comedians and actors Ruby Wax, Dennis Waterman, George Cole, Roy Kinnear, and Mark Farmer. Advertisements are present for Holywell Bay Holiday Park, Cultured Pearls, and Sun Blessed Holidays.

Editorial featuring:

Arthur Daley
Dennis Waterman
George Cole
Mark Farmer
Miami Memoirs
Minder
Roy Kinnear
Ruby Wax
Terry

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#Christmas 1933 Radio Times: Featuring The Scottish Studio Orchestra; Troise and his Banjoliers; Television Transmission; The Birmingham Ladies' String Quartet; The BBC Orchestra; A Recital; An Organ Recital and more

READ: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/cda0c97e58824e83a1c5b919d84462ce?page=30

This page lists radio programmes for London Regional and Midland Regional, as well as Television transmissions. Programme highlights include orchestras, quartets, and variety performances. There are also articles on SOPRANOS.

Featuring:

A Recital
A Recital of Gramophone Records
An Organ Recital
Dance Music
Daventry National Programme
Ernest Parsons and his Orchestra
Midland Regional Programme
Television Transmission
The BBC Orchestra
The Birmingham Ladies' String Quartet
The Children's Hour
The Daily Service
The First News
The Northern Studio Orchestra
The Scottish Studio Orchestra
Troise and his Banjoliers

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#Christmas 1988 TV Times: Editorial featuring Butlin's Holiday Worlds; The Krankies; Jimmy Cricket; The Chuckle Brothers and Bernie Flint

This image is an advertisement for Butlin's Holiday Worlds in 1989. It promotes free children's club activities, free fun pools, free child listening, free soccer coaching, Jimmy Cricket, and free sub-tropical waterworlds. The ad features The Chuckle Brothers, The Krankies, and Bernie Flint. It highlights weekend and midweek breaks availability and advertises affordable holiday packages.

Editorial featuring:

Bernie Flint
Butlin's Holiday Worlds
Jimmy Cricket
The Chuckle Brothers
The Krankies