Barnens adventskalender

Barnens adventskalender
Genrechildren
Country of originSweden
Language(s)Swedish
Home stationSveriges Radio
Produced byRolf Bergström
Original release1 December (1957-12-01) –
24 December 1957 (1957-12-24)
No. of episodes24

Barnens adventskalender (The Children's Advent Calendar), broadcast at 7:55 each morning between 1 and 24 December 1957, was the first in what was to become an annual series of children's Yuletide programmes – Sveriges Radios julkalender – produced by Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio.

Each five-minute programme featured a group of children singing a Christmas song or carol,[1] talking to radio producer Rolf Bergström[2] about their plans and preparations for Christmas, and then describing the image revealed as they opened each day's door on a special advent calendar.

Children at home could join in by cutting out the small copies of these images printed in the weekly radio programme guide Röster i Radio and sticking them on the outline picture of a Christmas tree also printed in the magazine.

Bergström got the idea after seeing Girl Guides selling copies of their movement's advent calendar in a bookshop.[3]

  1. ^ Lundqvist, Charlotte (28 November 2012). "24 dagars väntan på jul". City Helsingborg (in Swedish). p. 14.
  2. ^ "Trolltider och Teskedsgumman är populärast". Norrländska Socialdemokraten (in Swedish). 6 November 2002.
  3. ^ "Barnens adventskalender" (in Swedish). Sveriges Radio. 1957. Retrieved 3 December 2014.