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Advent Calendar Day 8: Festive Frontispiece

Radio Times often commissioned decorative borders for Christmas listings pages, and other artwork, including this evocative full-page snow scene from the 1930 festive issue. It’s not the actual front cover, but a sort of visual frontispiece before the main part of the issue, to help listeners (there weren’t very many viewers in 1930) get in the festive mood. We hope it does the same for you!

And if this inside cover has sparked your interest, you can watch this BBC Arena clip  about the art of the Radio Times magazine, as seen by illustrator Eric Fraser. 

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