News, highlights and banter from the team at BBC Genome – the website that shows you all the BBC’s listings between 1923 and 2009 (and tells you what was on the day you were born!) Join us and share all the oddities, archive gems and historical firsts you find while digging around… 2016-12-17T08:00:00+00:00 Zend_Feed_Writer https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome

2016-12-17T08:00:00+00:00 2016-12-17T08:00:00+00:00 https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/genome/entries/098d200f-66ad-4926-9824-a40aceba9bcf <div class="component"> <div id="smp-0" class="smp"> <div class="smp__overlay"> <div class="smp__message js-loading-message delta"> <noscript>You must enable javascript to play content</noscript> </div> </div> </div><p> <em>From BBC Arts - a taste of A Christmas Carol, an opera adaptation from 1962.</em> </p></div><div class="component prose"> <p>Today's window opens up this archive gem: a clip from the first operatic version of <a title="BBC Genome - A Christmas Carol" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fea6b3c7e3f24453875f464c2471a40c" target="_blank">A Christmas Carol,</a> broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1962.</p> <p>The opera was specially commissioned for BBC Television and starred Stephen Manton as Scrooge. The <a title="BBC Arts" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01yqnn8" target="_blank">BBC Arts</a> website released if for your enjoyment - along with clips of the <a title="BBC Arts - Scrooge" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02f27y1" target="_blank">1935 film, Scrooge.</a></p> <p>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 <a title="BBC Genome - Programmes Available" href="http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=1&q=&media=playable&yf=1923&yt=2009&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search" target="_blank">click here.</a> There are more than 11,000 programmes you can watch on those dark December nights...</p> </div>