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 BBC'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 Pantomania or Dick Whittington, which featured many BBC personalities in cameos, and Home is the Sailor, a comedy specially written for the BBC 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.
The Duke of Edinburgh was scheduled to speak from the Royal Yacht in South Pacific waters as a prelude from the Queen's Christmas message, followed by a telerecording of the Variety Theatre of China and a direct relay of part of the Grand Circus from the Palais des Sports in Paris.
