and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
by Frank Luther, the popular American singer on gramophone records
Uncle Mac's Christmas carols
(Selected gramophone records)
A story 'Blossom of Christmas', by M. Melville Balfour and a Children's Prayer
at the theatre organ
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
followed by Programme Parade
Some details about today's programmes
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Gert and Daisy
BBC Chorus accompanied by wood-wind and brass orchestra conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Christians, awake (A. and M. 61)
See amid the winter's snow (John Goss)
It came upon a midnight clear (E.H. 26) (Sullivan)
Angels from the realms of glory (A. and M. 482)
The Coventry carol (arr. Woodgate)
Hark! the herald angels sing (A. and M. 60)
at the theatre organ
A radio card of Christmas greetings from evacuated' children in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States of America to their parents and to other children and grown-ups.
Versicles and Responses
Venite
Special Psalms: xix and Ixxxv *
First Lesson: Isaiah ix, 2-7
Te Deum (Ireland in F)
Second Lesson: St. Luke ii, 1-20
Benedictus (Ireland in F)
Creed
Collects
Hark! the herald angels sing (E.H. 24; A. and M. 60; S.P. 74; Rv. C.H. 46)
Address by the Very Rev. H. N. Bate, Dean of York
While shepherds watched their flocks by night (E.H. 30; A. and M. 62; S.P. 82)
Blessing
on gramophone records
The greatest success in the history of British opera has been the series of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, which for over sixty years have delighted audiences all over Britain. This morning's broadcast of various excerpts from these operas should have a very wide appeal, particularly as Geoffrey Toye, who is presenting the programme, is an authority on the subject - he produced the film of The Mikado in 1938 - and will try to recapture the atmosphere of some of those memorable seasons at the Princes' Theatre, London, from 1919 to 1924.
The artists whose records you Will hear will include those old favourites, Henry Lytton, Bertha Lewis, Leo Sheffield, Derek Oldham, Elsie Griffin, Nellie Briercliffe, and Darrell Fancourt.
Symphony No. 39, in E flat (K.543) played by BBC Orchestra
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Tom Ronald and Reginald Smith offer you a spicy Christmas dish which will be served by Edward Cooper, Madge Elliott, Shaun Glenville, Frederick Gregory, Helen Hill, Diana Morrison, Graham Payn, Cyril Ritchard, Luanne Shaw, Guy Verney, and Dorothy Ward, with the Dance Orchestra, directed by Billy Ternent
played by the Orchestre Raymonde under its conductor, George Walter
The guests of Canada and the United States greet their parents across the Atlantic
(Presented in collaboration between the CBC of Canada, NBC of the U.S.A., and the BBC, and broadcast simultaneously in all three countries)
Radio quiz ; Spot the star ; memory test ; musical puzzles ; Nicknames ; How's your history ? ; Finding out the film fans ; Sporting posers ; Figure it out; and many other puzzles
Puzzler-in-chief, John Watt
Presented by Howard Thomas and Douglas Cleverdon
A varied programme of Christmas and national music from different parts of the British Isles
Christmas orchestral music :
A carol symphony (first movement) : 0 come, all ye faithful
Victor Hely-Hutchinson played by a symphony orchestra
Music of Northern Ireland :
Irish rhythms and airs played by the Irish Rhythm Orchestra and sung by David Beggs
Christmas singing :
I saw a fair maiden Peter Warlock There was a rosebud...Martin Shaw sung by a section of the Halle Chorus
Music of Scotland :
Scottish airs and reels played by a Scottish orchestra
Music of Wales :
. Welsh carols and airs sung by a Welsh choir
Christmas organ music:
Selections from the Christmas works of J. S. Bach played at a cathedral organ
Programme presented by Felix Felton
(Studio service in Welsh)
Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r llyfr ' Bob Bore o Newydd ', a chenir CSrolau
Nadolig
' A Christmas Carol', by Charles Dickens
Specially adapted for the Children's
Hour by Philip Wade
Others in the cast include
Patricia Hayes , Laidman Browne ,
Ivan Samson
Christmas, in wartime or not, could hardly be Christmas without the evergreen story, now nearly a hundred years old, of Ebenezer Scrooge and his conversion by the ghosts of Christmas from a selfish old curmudgeon, who said that Christmas was all humbug and grudged his poor clerk a day off to celebrate, to a jolly old boy, who sent the same clerk the fattest turkey he could find and vowed that he would ' honour Christmas in his heart and strive to keep it all the year round
followed by Interlude
from South Wales
Community singing of hymns and carols
Conducted by John Hughes
Reading and prayer by the Rev. J. M. Lewis
Elsie and Doris Waters
Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch
Jack Warner and other famous Variety stars will entertain you from all over Britain
Geraldo and his Orchestra provide the music
Presented by Ronald Waldman
with Gerald Moore at the piano
JOHN MCCORMACK
GERALD MOORE Piano interlude JOHN MCCORMACK
An appeal on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund (registered under the Blind Persons Act, 1920) by the Rt. Hon. Ernest Bevin
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to [address removed]
Two famous bands in Great Britain with Oliver Wakefield as compere. Two famous bands in the U.S.A. with international stars as compere and vocalists
The programme will ' 'swing' backwards and forwards across the Atlantic and will be heard by this country and the U.S.A. through the co-operation of the Columbia Broadcasting System
by Edgar Wallace
Adapted for broadcasting by Hugh Stewart
Cast
Produced by Val Gielgud
and his Band
