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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, talking to radio producer Rolf Bergström about their plans and preparations for Christmas, and then describing the image revealed as they opened each day's door on a special

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. 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

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selling copies of their movement's advent calendar in a bookshop.

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{{reflist 1957 radio programme debuts 1957 radio programme endings Sveriges Radio's Christmas Calendar Yule