<P> Since Christmas 1969 , a double - sized issue has been published each December containing listings for two weeks of programmes . Originally , this covered Christmas and New Year listings , but in some years these appear in separate editions , with the two - week period ending just before New Year . The cover of the ' Christmas Number ' ( as this issue came to be called ) dating from the time when it contained just a single week 's listings , usually features a generic festive artwork , atypical for the magazine , which since the 1970s has almost exclusively used photographic covers for all other issues . </P>
<P> Since Christmas 1969 , a double - sized issue has been published each December containing listings for two weeks of programmes . Originally , this covered Christmas and New Year listings , but in some years these appear in separate editions , with the two - week period ending just before New Year . The cover of the ' Christmas Number ' ( as this issue came to be called ) dating from the time when it contained just a single week 's listings , usually features a generic festive artwork , atypical for the magazine , which since the 1970s has almost exclusively used photographic covers for all other issues . </P>
when does the radio times come out for christmas
when does the radio times come out for christmas
December
December