A sackful of songs and stories, verses, and records
Opened by Lionel Gamlin and Leslie Perowne

The BBC Chorus
The BBC Orchestra (Section C Strings) Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate

presented by the Caravan Players

A Christmas Day broadcast from the Sailors' Mission, New Cut, Swansea
The Flying Angel, the sign of the Mission to Seamen, is familiar to sailors the world over. The Mission helpers meet this morning for songs, shanties, and sea yarns, before their tour of Swansea's Dockland.
There will be a special message for men in lighthouses

from Rome

A Nativity Play in three scenes by Bernard Walke played by the St. Hilary Players
Scene 1: The Angel and the Shepherds. Scene 2: The Children and the Lamb. Scene 3 : The Three Kings and the Crib
Characters: Boy ; First Shepherd ; Second Shepherd ; Third Shepherd
The Angel; Elizabeth; Mother; Benjamin ; Asaph ; Rachel First
King ; Second King ; Third King
Reproduced from recordings of the broadcast from St Hilary Church muter the direction of Filson Young on December 18, 1934

from the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace
(by gracious permission of His Majesty the King)
Conducted by the Rev. Prebendary L. J. Percival, K.C.V.O., Domestic
Chaplain to His Majtsty the King
Organ Voluntary
11.0 Order of Service
Hymn, 0 come, all ye faithful (A. and M. 59 ; S.P. 78 ; Rv. C.H. 55) Exhortation, Confession, and Absolution
Lord's Prayer, Versicles, and Responses
Psalm xix (7. E. West in D)
First lesson, Isaiah ix, 2-7
Te Deum (Smart in F)
Second Lesson, St. Luke ii, 1-20
Jubilate (Stanford in G minor)
Introit, Gloria in excelsis Deo (Martin Shaw )
Lord's Prayer, Collect, Commandments
Kyrie (Ireland in C)
Collects, Epistle, Gospel
Nicene Creed
Address by the Rev. E. K. Talbot , M.C., Chaplain to His Majesty the King
Hymn, Hark! the herald angels sing (A. and M. 60; S.P. 74 ; Rv.
C.H. 46)
Prayer and Bless in

Conductor, Fred Mortimer

Algernon Blackwood returns to the microphone
A great writer of stories, especially of mystery stories, will be broad-tasting three stories of his own today: 'Transition', 'The Laughter of Courage ', and ' A Boy and his Bag '. All three were published some years ago. The author has spent a good deal of time on adapting them for radio

Conducted by Guy Warrack

A programme of national and popular songs in contemporary settings, devised and written by Dr. Thomas Wood
The programme is in six scenes
I-The Spanish Armada ; 2 The Civil War ; 3-The Great Rebellion ;
4—Waterloo ; 5—The Crimea ; 6—1914-1918
The incidents used have been based on fact so far as tact could be established
The cast includes: Alan Howland , James McPhee , Francis de Wolff , Beryl Laverick , Clifford Bean, Cameron Hall , Howard Marion-Crawford ,
Albert Ward with the BBC Men's Chorus (Chorus master, Leslie Woodgate ) and the BBC Military Band, conducted by P. S. G. O'Donnell
Production by Felix Felton and Maurice Brown '
' The Soldier Sings' shows in their historical settings some of the most famous tunes in the history of the British nation, from ' Lord Willoughby which was sung when Queen Elizabeth reviewed her troops before the Armada, to the songs sung in a Divisional concert-party hut in France in the last war.
Today's programme is a revised form of the programme originally broadcast in May, 1938.

Christmas scenes and Christmas greetings between the peoples of the Commonwealth
The peoples of the British Commonwealth are at war. On this day of reunion by radio in ' one great family' they meet again in battle-dress
Narrator, Howard Marshall.
Producer, Laurence Gilliam
Christmas with the Forces : The Royal Navy: The Dover Patrol The Army: The British Expeditionary Force The Royal Air Force: The Fighter Command Christmas in the British Isles :
Evacuated London children in the West of England Welsh miners in the Rhondda Valley
A shipyard worker's family in Northern Ireland
A Christmas in the Scottish Highlands
On the Northumbrian Fells
A Shepherd in the Cotswolds Christmas in the Commonwealth Overseas : Newfoundland: A fisherman from St. Johns
Canada: A test pilot from Ontario
New Zealand: A farmer from Wellington
Australia : A woman munition-worker from Sydney The Colonial Empire : A Malayan Naval Rating from Singapore India : An Indian Army Officer from the North-West Frontier South Africa : A Coastal Defence Officer from Cape Town
2.15 In 'THE EMPIRE'S GREETING'
4.15 A COMPETITION between sons in France and parents in England
6.20 A SERVICE from the Western Front
7.0 In the VARIETY PARTY
9.15 GRACIE FIELDS from a concert behind the lines

God Save The King

A programme of varied music for your entertainment on Christmas afternoon
3.10 Christmas Music :
A Children's Overture (Quilter), played by the Torquay Municipal
Orchestra, conducted by Ernest W. Goss
3.20 Music of Northern Ireland:
Irish Rhythms conducted by David Curry. Songs by James McCafferty
3 30 Christmas Carols:
A Cornish , sung by the Mabe choir (recorded), and Northumbrian
A Cornish carol sung by the Marje cnuuu o- '' carols by the Northumbrian Singers
3 40 Music of Wales:
A Rhapsody on Welsh National Airs by Percy Fletcher , sung by the C6r
Caerdydd (The Cardiff Choir)
3.50 Christmas Music :
A frivolous mterlude and some arrangements of old English tunes. ' Bach Goes to Town' (Alec Templeton ), ' Greensleeves' (Vaughan Williams), and ' Sir Roger de Coverley ' (arr. Frank Bridge) by the BBC
Salon Orchestra, conducted by Leslie Bridgewater
4.0 Music of Scotland:
Scottish Airs and Dances by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Kemlo Stephen
4.10 Christmas Music.
" Come, all Ye Faithful', a movement from A Carol Symphony by Victor Hely-Hutchinson , played by the BBC Military Band, conductor,
P. S. G. O'Donnell

Master of Ceremonies, Christopher Stone
Games selected from I-Spelling Bee, 2-General Knowledge (parents of military matters, soldiers of civil matters), 3-Passing the Message

from Sandy Macpherson at the theatre organ
Sandy Macpherson says about this programme: ' I only wish I could have sent a Christmas card to every one of my radio friends. That was, of course, impossible, so this afternoon I'm going to do the next best thing—I'm going to send you all a musical Christmas card over the air.'

Parents in Stepney ' join' in a Christmas party for their children at
Wexham in Buckinghamshire

including' The Pied Piper ' and ' Old King Cole'
Specially presented and recorded for children by John Watt
Broadcast in Welsh on 281.1 m. 6.15-6.30
Newyddion (News)

Order of Service:
Hymn, O come, all ye faithful (A. and M. 59; S.P. 78; Rv. C.H. 55)
Prayers
Carol. The First Noel (S.P. 384; Rv. C.H. 45)
Lesson, St. Luke ii, 1-14
Creed
Prayers
Hymn, While shepherds watched their flocks by night (A. and M. 62; S.P 82; Rv. C.H 42)
Address by the Rev. A. T. A. Naylor, Deputy Chaplain-General, B.E.F.
Hymn, Hark! The herald angels sing (A. and M. 60; S.P. 74 ; Rv. C.H 46)
Blessing
The National Anthem
(In collaboration with the Service de la Radiodiffusion, Paris)

Comedians—Chorus Songs-Musical Games and join in listening to other parties elsewhere
These will include: A pill-box fort near the front line, an Army concert from one of the bases in France, a children's hospital ward, a wartime edition of ' Flying High ' from an R.A.F. hangar
The producers of the Variety Department will give you a pantomime,
' Puzzle Corner ', etc.
So tune in at any time between 7.0 and 8.50 for all kinds of happy-go-lucky entertainment
Host, John Watt. Party organiser, Harry S. Pepper

An appeal on behalf of the British ' Wireless for the Blind' Fund, by The Unknown Blind Man
There are about 80,000 blind people of all ages in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, whom, on past Christmas Days, listeners have helped through the British ' Wireless for the Blind' Fund. The appeal this Christmas night is again on the fund's behalf ; for blindness falls every year on some thousands of people, many of them ageing and in poor circumstances, who have no chance of obtaining a set except through the fund.
The blind succeed to an extraordinary degree in living active, interested, and useful lives without sight. Broadcasting, more than any other invention of modern times, brings them into touch with the happenings and ideas of the day.
The Unknown Blind Man who made so many friends when he spoke about himself and his fellows five Christmases ago will tonight appeal again.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to The British ' Wireless for the Blind ' Fund, [address removed]

in a NAAFI Variety concert organised by ENSA with Jack Payne and his Band from
' Somewhere in France'

Rimsky-Korsakov's Symphonic Suite after A Thousand and One Nights
1 The Sea and Sinbad's Ship. 2 The Story of the Kalendar Prince. 3 The Young Prince and Princess. 4 The Festival at Bagdad-The Sea-Shipwreck-Conclusion played by the BBC Orchestra (Section B), leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult

From Southampton : with Cyril Fletcher (in ' Odd Odes'), Helen Hill (the popular singer), Harry Robbins and the Cosmopolitan Four, and Fred Ballerini and his Dance Band at the Polygon Hotel
From Blackpool:
Star artists from the Palace Theatre and the New Opera House, supported by the Clifton Hotel Orchestra under the direction of Sydney Green at the Clifton Hotel
Jack Hylton and his Band with June Malo, Dolly Elsie , and Bruce Trent will be in the studio