and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Randolph Sutton , Britain's popular light comedian

Exercises for men : Frank Punchard
7.40 Exercises for women : Audrey Nicol

An anthology of favourites

A thought for today : Rev. Dom Bernard Clements , O.S.B.

Guest speaker : Godfrey Winn

Mixed choice of records. The high spot will be ' Bolero Symphonique ', played by the Quintet of the Hot Club of France, augmented by brass

and his Orchestra

People, topics, and places in wartime Wales. Talks and impressions presented by J. H. Griffiths

at the theatre organ

from p. 105 of New Every Morning' and p. 24 of ' 'Each Returning Day'

Jan Berenska and his Orchestra

Programme of gramophone records
Ninon Vallin (soprano) : L'heure exquise
(Hahn) ; D'une prison (Hahn)
M. and -Mme. Lauanay (two pianos) :
Valses romantiques 1 and 2 (Chabrier)
Ninon Vallin (soprano) : Si mes vers avaient des ailes (Hahn); Plaisir d'amour (Martini)
Phyllis Sellick (piano) : Pastourelle
(Poulenc)

All-in parlour game, a team of men against a team of women. Chairman, Frederick Combe , with the assistance of Ursula Eason

ENSA concert for war-workers, with Stanelli, Sydney Bright's Sextet, and Dela Lipinskaya

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

Mary Worth (soprano) ; Mary Davies (contralto) ; Stanley Wootton (viola)

Conductor,P. S. G. O'Donnell Music by contempoary British composers

by Victor Hely-Hutchinson , played by the BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Julian Clifford

Programme of rhythmic records

Talk by J. Wilson McLaren

at the theatre organ

at the piano

and his Astoria Players

Rhaglen mewn pennill a chan (Welsh light programme)

5.20 ' Children of our Allies'. First of a series of programmes specially arranged for the children of our Allies now in this country, introduced by Mac
5.30 ' Christmas Party Scottish children entertain little friends from Poland and Norway

National and Regional announcements

Serial adaptation from Charles Dickens 's novel by Audrey Lucas.
Produced by Moray McLaren. Last instalment—' The end of the story '

The Allied Forces in Britain speak for themselves to Billy Welcome. Produced by D. G. Bridson and Alan Melville

(By arrangement with Jack Waller )
Book and lyrics by Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. Additional lyrics by Irving Caesar. Music by Vincent Youmans. Radio adaptation by Henrik Ege . Produced by Reginald Smith
Act 1 : James Smith's house in Mayfair. Acts 2 and 3: Sunnycliffon-Sea.
Chorus and augmented Dance Orchestra, with Cecil Norman and Ivor Dennis at the pianos, conducted by Billy Ternent

Choral drama. Libretto adapted from the Coventry Nativity Play. Music by Rutland Boughton Cast in order of singing
Shepherds :
The Wise Men :
Narrator : Valentine Dyall
BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre Orchestra, conductor, Stanford Robinson
Scene 1 : The home of Mary and Joseph in Nazareth. Scene 2 : A moor at night. Scene 3 : The stable. Scene 4 : An open space in Jerusalem. The door of Herod's Palace in the background. Scene 5 : The stable
Rutland Boughton's Bethlehem, though originally written for the stage, is equally successful as a concert production, as its outlines are clear and its texture void of complexities. The libretto, adapted from the Coventry Nativity ,Play, is full of quaint phraseology, which is so cleverly clothed with lovely sound that the atmosphere of each and every scene is realised at once. The Prelude and most of the Interludes are based on old carols, some of which are to be found in the main sections of the work.

Reading by John Smith

at the theatre organ

with his Orchestra