Pour yourself a drop of brandy and prepare to get festive, with a special yuletide edition of the Throwback! We start at 4pm with some seasonal Ceefax, then move onto some kids programming with Watch and Play School. Festivities continue into the early evening with a gameshow gala of Bob’s Full House and Big Break. We join the staff of Easyjet for a Christmas episode of Airline, followed by an edition of Neol’s Christmas Presents from 1991. To finish off the TV block we join Moira Stewart for a BBC News report from Christmas Eve 1981.

I’m going to leave it open from 8pm onwards – depending on what transpires, there may be a film or two, some gaming, or more retro TV. We’ll see what happens!

4.00 Ceefax
4.15 BBC Schools: Watch – The Nativity (Parts 1 and 2)
4.50 Play School (1985 Christmas Special)
5.10 Bob’s Full House (1985 Christmas Special)
5.45 Big Break (1994 Christmas Special)
6.20 Airline
6.40 Neol’s Christmas Presents (1991)
7.40 BBC News
8.00 [TBA]