6.55 Weather; programme news
Today's Time GTS 7.0, 8.0, 9.0 am
1.0, 6.0. 11.0 pm Big Ben 10.0 pm

7.15 Today radio's breakfast-time magazine introduced by JACK DE MANIO
7.45 Boxing Day Parade
7.50 Ten to Eight
God Rest You Merry Readings and music for Christmas Week by ANDREW CRUICKSHANK and the ST MARTIN SINGERS
7.55 Weather; programme news

8.10 Today
8.40 Boxing Day Parade

read by JILL BALCON (4)

Christmas edition

Excerpts from the LP of the musical about the songwriter Percy French , now running in London and starring Evelyn Laye
Stanley Baxter and Mark Wynter Introduced by CORMAC RIGBY

St Stephen
NEM p 99; Love came down at Christmas (BBC HB 53); The holly and the ivy (Oxford Book of Carols 38): Acts 6 w 8-15, and 7, vv 55-60; Away 'in a manger (BBC HB 43)

At the age of 66. Rae Jenkins can look back over a long and interesting career. At 18 he played in the Queen's Hall Orchestra with Sir Henry Wood ; he worked with Tommy Hand ley in the ITMA shows: with Gracie Fields , Vera Lynn. and Gigli. His story starts in Ammanford. South Wales, and the career he chose for himself then has not ended yet.
In this morning's portrait of Rae Jenkins , Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, those taking part are
ROWLAND JONES (tenor) DAVID THEODORE (oboe)
MOLD ALUN SINGERS chorus-master BRIAN HUGHES BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA leader JOHN BACON conducted by RAE JENKINS Introduced by MORFUDD MASON LEWIS
Written and produced by J. ALWYN JONES

GALE PEDRICK 'S personal selection of items from BBC radio and television which have been featured in Pick of the Week in 1969 introduced by JOHN ELLISON
Produced by RICHARD BURWOOD (Extended version: Sunday,
11.15 am)

takes a light-hearted look at hospital life
Johnny's unusual subject today stems from the fact that he was a hospital patient himself earlier this year. While there he had ample time to make some of those very astute observations of character for which he is justly famous.
Lying in bed with only his own thoughts as company, he felt that perhaps in hospital we are closer to our animal origins than at any other time. and to help prove this he'll use animal and bird sounds to illustrate the programme.
Produced by DAVID ALLAN

and programme news

and voices and topics in and behind the headlines introduced by WILLIAM HARDCASTLE

Part of the record of his ' address to the Oxford Union in December 1958 including the famous bricklayer story and the letters from Tyrolean hotel-keepers

and takes a lighthearted and somewhat nostalgic look at the decade when he was a teenager
Produced by HELEN FHY

BBC Drama Repertory Company in a comedy by SAM AND BELLA SPEWACK from the French play Cuisine des Anges by ALBERT HUSSON
The Place: Cayenne, French Guiana, South America. The Time: Christmas 1910.
Mouth organ ALFIE KAHN
The play adapted for radio by PEGGY WELLS
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN

Dvorak Overture: Carnival
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by WITOLD ROWICKI
4.40* Mendelssohn Capriccio brillant in B minor
GARY GRAFFMAN (piano)
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES MUNCH
4.51* Respighi Symphonic Poem: Feste Romane PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY gramophone records

and programme news

and Radio Newsreel

Introduced by JOHN MOTSON Produced by GODFREY DIXEY

by ARNOLD RIDLEY
The New Theatre, Bromley, Company in TONY CLAYTON 'S production
The famous 1925 comedy thriller about a group of travellers stranded at a remote Cornish railway station on a night when a legendary ' ghost train ' is expected.
Produced by guy VAESEN

Excerpts from Puccini's opera with Victoria de los Angeles JUSSI BJORLING
LCCINE AMARA and ROBERT MERRILL
RCA VICTOR CHORUS AND
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM gramophone records

The background to the news and people in the news. followed by News-stand in which RUTH ADAM analyses how the dailies have handled the week's news, the opinions they have expressed, and current trends in and out of Fleet Street

Then wisely choose a friend that may
Last for an age, and not for a day
NICOLETTE BERNARD presents an anthology of delectable verse and prose. specially compiled for bedtime listening by KEITH HINDELL

Phineas Redux by ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Book 1: The Ladies Rally Round read by DAVID MARCH (5)

Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor, Op 13
JUILLIARD QUARTET
Robert Mann (violin) Isidore Cohen (violin) Raphael Hillyer (viola) Claus Adam (cello) gramophone record