Introduced by Joan Gilbert.

Floral Decorations
Frances Perry shows how to make decorations from your winter garden.

Christmas Stockings
James Norbury tells how the practice of hanging up stockings at Christmas began.

Dancing
Sydney and Mary Thompson teach the 'Sir Roger de Coverley'

Last-Minute Hints
Margot Lovell suggests ways of adding to the pleasures of Christmas.

For the very young
Charles E. Stidwill tells the story.
Sam and Elizabeth Williams make the pictures
(A BBC Television Film)
(to 16.15)

Children's Newsreel

A Time to be Born
A Nativity play by P. D. Cummins.
(Mark Dignam is appearing in 'Carrington V.C.' at the Westminster Theatre, London)
See page 17

(to 17.45)

A fairy tale danced to music of Prokofiev.
Adapted for television and produced by Patricia Foy.
[Starring] Ballet Rambert

The Royal Canadian Air Force at North Luffenham.
Philip Robinson visits the Canadian camp to meet one of the many Canadian airmen who, with his family, is celebrating Christmas three thousand miles from his home town.

with Joan Regan, The Television Toppers.
Dances directed by Jack Billings
(by arrangement with Jack Hylton and George Black and Alfred Black)

A special Christmas edition in which the chairman produces some seasonable objects to puzzle the experts.
The Experts include: Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Hugh Shortt
Chairman, Glyn Daniel

The Christmas story is retold on Christmas Eve in the quiet of a church crypt in the heart of London.
From St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London.
Introduced by the Vicar, the Rev. L. M. Charles-Edwards

(sound only)