18 December 1949
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BBC Television
Source: Radio Times (Midland Edition) 18-24 December 1949.
- 17.00-18.00 For The Children
- Muffin the Mule
- Muffin opens the Christmas season with a fancy-dress party. With Annette Mills (who writes the songs) and Ann Hogarth and Jan Bussell (who pulls the strings).
- Down The River
- An imaginary journey with music composed by John Farrnt, illustrated by Richard Lambert.
- Squirrel Goes Skating
- Another story of 'The Squirrel, the Hare, and Little Grey Rabbit' by Alison Uttley. Arranged and told by Ann Hogarth and Jan Bussel with their glove puppets
- Don’t Forget to Shut the Gate
- Syd Carter, a countryman who is well known to young listeners, talks about his favourite subject—gates.
- 20.00 How Television Came To The Midlands
- A film on the growth of the BBC Television Service, showing the planning and construction of the world’s most powerful television transmitting station and its official opening at Sutton Coldfield yesterday.
- 20.30 The Winslow Boy
- A play by Terence Rattigan.
- 22.30 Faith In Stone
- Two Films from France showing how cathedral art expressed the faith and aspirations of medieval man
- La Cathédrale
- Images Gothiques
- 22.45-23.00 News
- (sound only)
