Newyddion y Dydd ynghyd a sgwrs ar faterion crefyddol yng Nghymru.
(Daily news, and a talk on Welsh religious matters)
(Wenvoe, Blaen-Plwyf, Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield only)
(to 13.15)
For the Very Young
Charles E. Stidwill tells the story.
Sam and Elizabeth Williams make the pictures
(BBC film)
A comic fantasy starring Charles Ruggles and Jacques Sernas.
A film directed by Roy del Ruth.
Peter Scott looks back, with his wife, on his first Faraway Look tour which took him to Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and Fiji.
From the BBC's West of England television studio
A Hungarian film.
The story told by Johnny Morris.
The animals in the wood are puzzled when the apple tree they plant produces nasty sour apples. They call the children of the village in to help. Will it now yield a golden harvest?
(Previously shown in December, 1958)
[Starring] Eamonn Andrews
Featuring Lenny the Lion with Terry Hall, Pearl Carr and Teddy Johnson, Ronnie Corbett, Raymond Rollett, Jerry Bergmann and Mimi, Ronnie Boyer and Jeanne Ravel.
(BBC recording)
(Bert Hayes is appearing at the Butlin's Hotels, Cliftonville; Terry Hall at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton in 'Puss in Boots')
See Junior Radio Times
On transmitters serving the areas:
6.15 News for Scotland, Northern Ireland and the English Regions
News from Wales: 6.20-6.25
A look ahead at Christmas programmes with Alex Macintosh, Michael Aspel, and a few friends.
(BBC recording)
Sung in the Crypt and the Choir of the Cathedral
Introduced by The Dean of Canterbury, The Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, D.D.
Processional hymn: O little town of Bethlehem (Walford Davies)
Carol: Ding, dong merrily on high
Lesson: Isaiah 9. vv. 1-7, read by the Vice-Dean, the Rev. Canon A. O. Standen
Carol: In dulci jubilo (arr. Pearsall)
Processional hymn: Once in royal David's city
Chorale: Jesu, joy of man's desiring (J. S. Bach)
Lesson: St. Luke 2, vv. 8-20, read by the Dean
Carols:
Balulalow (Warlock)
Shepherds, in the field abiding
Blessing
Carol: Unto us a boy is born (arr. Geoffrey Shaw)
with Edward Selwyn (oboe) and string ensemble led by Emanuel Hurwitz
(BBC recording)
[Starring] James Stewart in the film The Trail to Christmas
A boy who has run away on Christmas Eve meets a stranger on the trail and hears a tale which leads him home for Christmas.
Written and produced by Francis Essex
(Based on a story by Hans Andersen)
[Starring] Julie Andrews and John Fraser
Eric Robinson conducts the Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum)
(BBC recording)
See facing page and page 7
A Christmas story with music by Gian Carlo Menotti
The Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
Chorus-Master, Peter Gellhorn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Raymond Cohen)
Conductor, Bryan Balkwill
Associate conductor, Denys Barlow
(Bryan Balkwill and Forbes Robinson appear by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Ltd.)
See page 7
[Starring] Rosalind Russell in the film Sister Kenny
The real-life story of the Australian nurse whose fight against poliomyelitis brought her into conflict with orthodox medical opinion, but whose methods were to have such far-reaching results.
From the Roman Catholic Bergkirche, Eisenstadt, Austria.
Celebrant, Bishop Stephan Laszlo, Apostolic Administrator of the Burgenland
Haydn's Mass of St. Nicholas sung by the Vienna Boys' Choir and members of the Vienna Opera Chorus with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor, Ferdinand Grossmann
The action of the Mass described by Father Patrick McEnroe
(Televised by courtesy of Oesterreichischer Rundfunk)
See page 7
