(to 12.00)
Margot Lovell introduces a programme of suggestions and reminders.
Food
Joan Robins makes a Christmas pie, an unusual omelette, and some decorative sweets.
Flowers
Joy Fleming makes the most of evergreen and flower decorations.
Party
John Lawrence devises Christmas favours for your party.
Presents
Margot Lovell solves the problem of last-minute presents.
(to 16.00)
from The Variety Artists' Home, Brinsworth Hall, Twickenham.
Guest artists include: Vera Lynn, Hal Monte, Leslie Strange, Ronalde, Fred Brezin,
Les Diagoras and Nat Allen and his Band.
An account of the changing fashion in Woman and her clothes from the fifteenth-century ideal of Botticelli to the ideal of today. Two connoisseurs, Pierre Balmain, who comes from Paris with mannequins and clothes, and James Laver, wit and historian of women's clothes, tell the story.
Dr. James M. Stagg, Deputy Director of the Meteorological Office, gives a short talk on the weather charts which are shown at the end of evening programmes.
(sound only)
(to 22.40)