Magazine edition
Introduced by JOHN GREENSLADE
from FR. GORDON ALBION
and Programme News
Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
Celebration
Well-known voices and verses reflect the coming of Christmas
See page 20
and Programme News
Revised second edition of the breakfast-time magazine
Write promptly yet carefully
An invitation to applicant schoolmasters which DAVID FRANKLIN once received and heeded.
He recalls his memories of the profession and the opinions of other teachers and pupils taken from the BBC Sound Archives
by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast
Reports from Britain and overseas
Revised edition of Sunday's broadcast
Memories of childhood in Jamaica recalled by DWIGHT WHYLIE MYRNA HAGUE and Louis MARRIOTT
Produced by Thena Heshel
New Every Morning, page 72
Come, let us to the Lord our
God (BBC H.B.487)
Psalm 142
Isaiah 59, vv. 12-21
Just as I am (BBC H.B. 292)
played by the BBC SCOTTISH RADIO ORCHESTRA Leader, Ian Tyre
Conductor, IAIN SUTHERLAND with songs from PADDY ROBERTS
Introduced by Roy WILLIAMSON
A series of five true stories about events in the lives of Kings and Queens 1: The Marriage of Queen Victoria as recounted in her correspondence
Read by ROSALIND SHANKS and WILFRED BABBAGE
The series edited and produced by Terence Tiller
Broadcast on February 7
Have we got it rightf
JANET LACEY , the retiring Director of Christian Aid, looks at the affluent Christmas we are used to in the West. at the poverty and need still in the world, and relates this to the true Christmas message
Produced by Harold Rogers
Robert Merrill with Roy Plomley
(Shortened version of Saturday's broadcast)
and Programme News
The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE
Friday evening's broadcast
Today's story: ' Willy Mouse's
Christmas Pudding' by Alison Jezard
from Steve Race including a selection from the ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ERIC WETHERELL
Produced by David Allan
Eric Wetherell broadcasts by arrangement with the Welsh National Opera Company
Reflections and Reminiscences
2: The Actor and the Director
The second of three talks in which Basil Dean remembers the past and discusses the present state of the theatre.
Third talk: January 1
Snakes and Ladders by Douglas Livingstone
Produced by ARCHIE CAMPBELL
Saturday's broadcast
(harp): gramophone records
A family magazine introduced by KEN SYKORA and including:
Damsels in Distress:
Gordon Gow talks to JOSEPHINE BAKER , GWYNETH JONES, ELSIE ARNOLD. ANN TODD , and MERLE PARK who recall occasions when it almost wasn'' all right on the night '
Consulting Rooms in the Sun:
NINA EPTON has a date with the doctor in Spain
Books for the Stocking: EDWARD
BLlSHEN suggests some presents for boys and girls
The Raggers Ragged:
MICHAEL VLASTO recalls as a medical student sixty years ago going to the music-hall to see ' Doctor ' Bodie
The Snow Queen by Hans Andersen freely adapted for radio in four parts by BERTHA LONSDALE
4: The Palace of Snow Rooms During her long search for Kay. Gerda has been captured by robbers and has learned that Kay was carried off by the Snow Queen to her palace in the far north of Finland.
Produced by HERBERT SMITH
and Programme News
Latest regional news-The stories behind the headlines— ' Live ' rush-hour traffic reports -Scotland Yard Calling-South-East Sport-Christmas Preview
Introduced by Tim GUDGIN
Produced by the South-East news unit
Listeners' letters and points of difference aired Programme devised by Anona Winn and Ian Messiter
Announcer, Angela Buckland
Produced by John Cassels
Pre-recorded at The Playhouse.
Northumberland Avenue. London. W.C.2
Shortened version: Thurs., 12 noon
DOUGLAS CRAIG introduces
JANET PRICE (soprano)
ANNE HOWELLS (mezzo-soprano) STUART BURROWS (tenor)
WELSH NATIONAL OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master, David Sutton
BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA Leader. Colin Staveley
Conducted by ERIC WETHERELL
Produced by J. Alwyn Jones
The last in a series of six programmes featuring Welsh solo artists with the Welsh National Opera Chorus.
Anne Howells broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Monsieur Chasse
A farce by Georges Feydeau translated by Richard COTTRELL with Keith Michell
Tony Britton and Jill Bennett
The place: Paris. The date: 1890
Adapted for radio and produced by GLYN DEARMAN
Tony Britton is in A Woman of No Importance ' at the Vaudeville Theatre, London
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The News
Background to the News
People in the News followed by LISTENING POST
† GILES PLAYFAIR introduces this evening's edition of a series designed to reflect listeners' own views on current topics. Letters on public affairs and issues of policy are specially welcome
For very late letters you can ring (01)-[number removed]. extension 3030. and dictate your message
White Christmas by NINA WARNER HOOKE
Read by MARGOT HEATH
Sixth of seven instalments
I SOLISTI DI ZAGREB
Conducted by ANTONIO JANIGRO ANDRÉ LARDROT (oboe) gramophone records
