for Christmas Day from the Warwick Road Congregational Church, Coventry, uniting with the Queen's Road Baptist Church.
Conducted by the Rev. R. W. Hugh Jones.
Call to Worship
Versicles and Responses
Prayer of Invocation
The Lord's Prayer
"O come, all ye faithful" (C.P. 85)
Junior Church Talk
"He smiles within his cradle" (C.P. 722)
Reading: St. Luke 2, vv. 1-16 Offertory
"O little town of Bethlehem" (C.P. 718)
Sermon
Prayers
"Hark! the herald-angels sing" (C.P. 84)
Benediction

(to 12.00)

speaking from the Royal Yacht Britannia in South Pacific waters.
The final message in the programme "Voices Out of the Air" broadcast throughout the Commonwealth as a prelude to A Christmas Message from Her Majesty The Queen at 3.0
(Sound only)

A BBC telerecording of some of the outstanding and unusual acts from the recent London stage production

from Paris.
A direct relay of part of the Grand Circus from the Palais des Sports in Paris including: aerial acts, clowns jugglers, chimpanzees and the dance of thirty elephants.
(Televised by courtesy of Radiodiffusion Television Francaise)

A new filmed story for children told by Johnny Morris.
"Get me a pair of boots", said the cat. The miller's son arranged for a pair of cat's boots to be made and from that moment his fortunes change.

Who is he?
What is he?
Why is he masked?
In this exciting film of the wild West the Lone Ranger and Tonto, his faithful Indian friend, fight a gang of bank robbers and come to the rescue of a lonely family at Christmas.

[Starring] Max Wall
A Christmas party on ice featuring young British skating stars from Queens Ice Club, London.
Introduced by David Jacobs.

(Max Wall is appearing in "The Pajama Game" at the London Coliseum)

Kenneth Wolstenholme gives today's football and major sporting results.

with Michael Barry, Patricia Foy and Ronnie Waldman.

An opera by Mozart to a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte after Beaumarchais
(Sung In German)
The action takes place in the Countess's boudoir.
Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio
Conductor, Meinhard von Zallinger
Presented by the German Television Service from their Munich studios

Walt Disney brings along some old friends and invites you to meet some new ones in a film programme specially prepared for BBC Television's Christmas Day.

Written by Eric Sykes
[Starring] Jean Kent as Dick Whittington, Sylvia Peters as Alice Fitzwarren, Billy Cotton as Alderman Fitzwarren, Frankie Howerd as Idle Jack, Hattie Jacques as the Good Fairy, Sam Kydd as King Rat
and more than a helping hand from: David Attenborough, Roger Avon, Fred Emney, Edward Evans, Bill Greenslade, Peter Haigh, John Hall, Philip Harben, The Max Jaffa Trio, Jacqueline Mackenzie, Mary Malcolm, Spike Milligan, Freddie Mills, Robert Raglan, Nancy Roberts, Bruce Seton, Eric Sykes, Jimmy Wheeler, The Mitchell Singers

(Jimmy Wheeler is appearing in "Goody Two Shoes" at the Streatham Hill Theatre, London; Billy Cotton is appearing at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London)
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A comedy specially written for the BBC Television Service for Christmas Day by Arthur Macrae.
[Starring] Brenda Bruce, Charles Victor with Richard Pearson
The play takes place in a small house in South London on Christmas Day.
(Joan Newell is appearing in 'Under Milk Wood' at the New Theatre, London)
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Eric Robinson introduces Music for You.
with Joan Hammond, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Anneliese Rothenberger, Jose Greco and members of his Company, Beryl Grey and members of the Ballet Rambert, Eileen Joyce, Larry Adler, Marcel Cornelis, Audrey Attwood, Jean Allister, Elizabeth Boyd, Joan Bramhall, Ursula Connors, Ellen Dales, Gillian Knight, Nora Ogonovsky, Betty Felstead, Bowles Bevan, Edward Darling, Derick Davies, Edgar Fleet, John Ford, John Mitchinson, Brendan O'Dowda, David Oddie, Donald Scott
The Concert Orchestra (Leader, David McCallum)

(Ferruccio Tagliavini appears by arrangement with S.A. Gorlinsky; Jose Greco and members of his Company appears by arrangement with Harold Fielding and the General Manager, the Royal Festival Hall; Beryl Grey appears by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)