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Christmas Journey

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A world-wide reunion of homes and people in Britain, in Europe, in the United States, and in the British Commonwealth overseas, celebrating Christmas

Narrator Robert Donat
Produced by Laurence Gilliam and Leonard Cottrell
Narrative by Alan Burgess
Music composed by William Alwyn
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson

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Christmas in: The United Kingdom
With the Shetland Islanders at Scalloway. On a Yorkshire farm in the Cleveland Hills.
With the steel workers on day shift, Margam, South Wales. Commentator: Wynford Vaughan Thomas
With a Festival of Britain builder, Bermondsey, London
Commentator: Edward Ward

Christmas in: Europe At the home of Odd Nansen, Oslo, Norway. At the I.R.O. Children's Village, Bad Aibling, Bavaria. Commentator: Wilfryd Thomas

Christmas in: The United States
In a New England home - Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts. Commentator: Denis Johnston

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