A Nativity Play specially written for broadcasting by Dorothy L. Sayers
Music composed by Robert Chignell
Dramatis Personae:
Persons of the Prologue and Epilogue (by permission of Godfrey Tearle) (by permission of Bronson Albery and Michel Saint-Denis)
Persons of the Play (in order of speaking) (by permission of O'Bryen, Linnil, and Dunfee)
Voices of travellers, etc., Patricia Laffan (by permission of Firth Shephard),
Barry Faber, Angela Kirk
A section of the BBC Chorus
Production by Val Gielgud
In this, the first play that she has written specially for broadcasting, Dorothy L. Sayers will present a picture of the Nativity which is at the same time poetic and matter-of-fact.

Within the lovely traditional framework of the story, Dorothy Sayers's characters of the Holy Land of two thousand years ago go about their business like the ordinary folk they were. There are the bustling Roman centurions, the Jewish family men and their wives, crowding the streets of Bethlehem for the tax-gathering, the shepherds coming down from the hills for a hot meal and a seat by the fireside, and, above all the carpenter Joseph and his wife Mary, who arrive tired and travel-stained after their long journey from Nazareth.
The play opens with the revelation to the Magi, Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar, and closes with their arrival in Bethlehem hard upon the heels of the adoring shepherds.