Belfast, Royal Avenue
1964
8, 9 & 12 December 1964
06min 29sec
sound
16mm
black and white
Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2
Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive
ITV
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Leslie Dawes interviews a number of people about what Christmas Day means to them.
One of the people he interviews is Sam Thompson, the Belfast playwright, who has no time for the "racket" of Christmas.
Sam Thompson (21 May 1916 – 15 February 1965) was an Irish playwright best known for his controversial plays Over the Bridge, which exposes sectarianism, and Cemented with Love, which focuses on political corruption. His works fall into the social realist genre but are distinct in their dramatisation of Northern Irish issues; they were ground-breaking in documenting sectarian violence before the eruption of the Troubles.
An Ulster Televsion Production.
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