Advent Calendar Day 4: Telly in the Cover
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It's the cover of the Christmas edition of Radio Times, 1956, by Monica Walker.
If you look closer, the homely scene includes a television set - a fact reiterated by the magazine's introduction to the 主播大秀's Christmas programming:
"There was a time, we remember, when a conventional picture of Santa Claus showed an airborne sleigh, pulled by magical reindeers, coming in low over the rooftops to alight beside some gaping chimney. A brief, low-level flight round any of our cities, towns, villages, or even rural areas nowadays would, however, meet with a new and hazardous obstacle-the television aerial, be it H-shaped, X-shaped, or that other squiggly shape that sometimes appears."
The highlights of the Christmas TV programming included which featured many 主播大秀 personalities in cameos, and a comedy specially written for the 主播大秀 Television Service for Christmas Day by Arthur Macrae, telling the story of a girl engaged to a sailor who "is rather too much at sea for her liking" and ends up marrying... his father.
was scheduled to speak from the Royal Yacht in South Pacific waters as a prelude from the Queen's Christmas message, followed by a of the Variety Theatre of China and a of part of the Grand Circus from the Palais des Sports in Paris.