Advent Calendar 2019 Day 17: Play School, 1970

Turning the lock this Christmas Eve are Brian Cant discovering tubular bells two and a half years before Mike Oldfield did and using them to their fullest music and movement crossover potential, Julie Stevens abandoning her gift wrapping to go through the Twelve Days Of Christmas, and farm children through the round window. Spare a thought for the toys, who have to be stuffed in a cupboard if they're to have any hope of sleep.

CANT CONFORMISM: this is the Advent Calendar's first Play School but we came across Brian as the emperor of China in the 1983 Children's BBC pantomime Aladdin & The Forty Thieves