BBC Arts 2014 Advent Calendar

Filmed in London in 2010, Soul Noel featured Christmas songs with a soul twist.

Scrooge is played by Seymour Hicks in the 1935 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Taken from the 2008 Christmas Classics concert, hosted by Jamie MacDougall in Aberdeen.

A clip from BBC Two series Private Life of a Masterpiece, originally broadcast in 2009.

Howard Goodall investigates the history of the Christmas carol with Professor Bennett Zon

Seymour Hicks in the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol

Guy Masterson reads at BBC Presents... Echoes of War to mark the centenary of WW1.

Michael Grade explores the history of the traditional theatrical character in Britain.

Howard Goodall examines the handwritten journal from the House of Lords to find out why.

Griff Rhys Jones and historian Daru Rooke discuss the history of Christmas decorations.

Peter Macann looks at the bleeping musical cards of the future on the classic BBC show.

A taste of this BBC-commissioned opera which starred Stephen Manton as Scrooge.

Collector Jackie Brown shows historian Ruth Goodman the first ever Christmas card.

From Placido Domingo's Christmas Choice, originally broadcast on 24 December 1980.

Filmed at the Porchester Hall in West London in 2010.