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Part 1
CORELLI
0 Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op
6 No. 8 (Christmas Concerto) STUTTGART CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL MÜNCHlNGER

Messe de minuit (Midnight Mass for Christmas Eve) real. Geoffrou-Dechaume
APRIL CANTELO (soprano) HELEN GELMAR (soprano)
JAMES BOWMAN (counter-tenor) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (bass) ANDREW DAVIS (organ) CHOIR OF
KING'S COLLEGE. Cambridge
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by DAVID WILLCOCKS gramophone records

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Part 2
BACH Canonic Variations on Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her (S.769) HELMUT WALCHA (organ)
9.16* BERLIOZ
L'enfance du Christ
A sacred trilogy
ST. ANTHONY SINGERS
GOLDSBROUGH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by COLIN Davis
(gramophone records)

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor, by JOSEPH COOPER
Records for Christmas reviewed by NOËL GOODWIN

Introduced by Steve Race

Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Directed by John Fenton
12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast direct from the London Weather Centre followed by SPORTS PARADE
1.0 SPORTING CHANCE
The County Cricket Champions
FREDDIE TRUEMAN, PHILIP SHARPE TONY NICHOLSON
V. A BBC Panel
MAURICE EDELSTON, LIAM NOLAN NORMAN CUDDEFORD
Question-Master, ALUN WILLIAMS
From the Royal Hall, Harrogate
1.40 TALKING SPORT
With JACOB DE VRIES
1.55 COMMENTARIES FROM THE ARCHIVES
Commentaries on past sporting events that listeners have requested to hear again
2.25 RUGBY UNION
County Championship: Lancashire v. Cheshire
Commentary on this afternoon's northern division county name by ROBERT HUDSON and Vic HADFIELD. with summaries and comments by HARRY FRY
From Blundellsands, Lancashire
3.55 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary by ALAN CLARKE and PETER JONES on the second half of one of today's English League matches
4.42* Results as they come in, direct from the BBC Sports Room
5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Produced by Angus Mackay Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50

BBC Northern
Symphony Orchestra Leader, Reginald Stead Conductor, George Hurst
Part I

from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield Read by PATIENCE COLLIER
Patience Collier is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
' The Lady's Maid ': Dec. 30

Part 2: Beethoven
Symphony No. 7, in A major

An account of the events leading up to the production of Bernard Shaw 's play at His Majesty's Theatre on April 11, 1914
Compiled and written by Richard Huggett
Other parts played by David Brierley , Betty Hardy Denys Hawthorne
Anthony Jackson , Haydn Jones Victor Lucas , Preston Lockwood and Denis McCarthy
Produced by CHARLES Lefeiux Third broadcast

Julian Bream (guitar)
George Malcolm (harpsichord)
@ Part 1
Guitar 9.2' Guitar

Alan Pryce-Jones gives his monthly commentary on the arts and the social scene in and around New York Recorded in New York

Part 2
Harpsichord Sonatas 9.55* Guitar
10.1' Introduction and Fandango, for guitar and harpsichord.Boccherini, arr. Bream
From the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh A recital given last June as part of the Aldeburgh Festival

by Matthew Arnold 1822-1888
Read by STEPHEN MURRAY
1 The story of that Oxford scholar poor
Of pregnant parts and quick Inventive brain.
Who, tir'd of knocking at Preferment's door.
One summer morn forsook
His friends, and went to learn the Gipsy lore.' Produced by David Davis
Thursis: Thursday at 9.20 p.m.

0 Trio in B major, Op. 8
BEAUX ARTS TRIO
Daniel Guilet (violin)
Bernard Greenhouse (cello) Menahem Pressler (piano) gramophone record