We had tremendous fun comprising our Advent Calendar for the @AbouttheBBC Twitter account. So much fun in fact, we wanted to put all the links in one place.
So here it is, day by day, in all its glory: the complete selection.
- The Box of Delights opening of episode one, first broadcast on television in 1984 with music written by a former BBC Director of Music, Victor Hely-Hutchinson.
- The Service for Advent recorded at St John's Chapel, Cambridge and broadcast on @BBCRadio3 as part of Choral Evensong.
- Advent crowns, brass bands and reusable scripts. Former Blue Peter presenters reminisce about Christmas on the children’s television programme.
- Window 4 on our Advent Calendar opens up a whole new advent calendar via @cbeebiesfun – plus dress your own snowman!
- A taste of Christmas on the BBC in this special trail. It’s like a box full of purple Quality Streets - how many programmes can you count?
- A hamper full of inspiring Christmas recipes from BBC Food.
- BBC One’s ‘newest’ TV producer @RobBrydon in episode 1 of the BBC One Christmas Trailer.
- How wartime Britain celebrated Christmas in 1940 (from BBC History).
- Back when musical Christmas cards were advanced: Tomorrow's World 1982 Christmas Special.
- TARDIS-related goodies from the BBC Shop.
- Instructions on how to make a Victorian Christmas cracker.
- The @BBCOneShow Christmas Lights Switch-On during rehearsals (minus the fog) and … The Radio 4 Christmas Appeal for 2012.
- Keen or over-excited? We opened two windows on day 12 by mistake. So, we gave ourselves a day off on 13th December.
- At the risk of creating an online feedback loop, the BBC Podcasts Advent Calendar is (still) well worth downloading.
- A 1972 Alfred Hitchcock interview on working with film composers (from BBC Archive.)
- Christmas music live from multiple venues across Europe today on @BBCRadio3 thanks to the sterling efforts of our fellow broadcasters across the European Broadcasting Union.
- Alan Partridge with his own version of 12 days of Christmas and a salutary lesson on how not to deal with a television controller from Alan’s Christmas Party in the late 1990s.
- All of the CBeebies panto songs.
- A clip from BBC Northern Ireland’s Roving Report c.1960 where Belfast inhabitants make their (novel) xmas light decoration requests.
- Pictures of Christmas submitted to BBC News Online. (We especially love the festive Elvises.)
- Kick back and relive every second of the 2012 Olympics still available online via the interactive video player.
- BBC History Magazine reveals Santa's “low countries” sidekick Pete.
- @bbcpallab reports on the earliest sound recordings of a family Christmas.
- A clip from old-school Delia with some timely last-minute advice about making your stuffing.
- Merry Christmas! Our final link on the About the BBC Advent Calendar is to the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Christmas Eve.