Advent Calendar Day 17: A Christmas Carol
From BBC Arts - a taste of A Christmas Carol, an opera adaptation from 1962.
Today's window opens up this archive gem: a clip from the first operatic version of A Christmas Carol, broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1962.
The opera was specially commissioned for BBC Television and starred Stephen Manton as Scrooge. The BBC Arts website released if for your enjoyment - along with clips of the 1935 film, Scrooge.
Don't forget you can find more BBC archive content by running a search on Genome and filtering the results by Programme Available. If you're feeling adventurous, just run an empty search and click on Programme Available, or click here. There are more than 11,000 programmes you can watch on those dark December nights...
