Russell Harty’s Christmas Party

Journalist, chatshow host and travel broadcaster, Russell Harty lived on BBC2 and hosted a popular chatshow once a week. This Christmas 1982 edition features special guests Shelley Winters, Nicholas Parsons, Peter Davison, Sandra Dickinson, Shaw Taylor (as a Mexican dancer), plus the choir of St Paul’s Cathedral and a bevvy of MPs at Westminster singing carols to their constituents. This clip is blighted by BITC alas…