and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Conducted by B. Walton O'Donnell. (Gramophone records)
Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women: Audrey Nicol
An anthology of favourites
Series of Christmas readings by Robert Speaight
Programme Parade
Freddy Grisewood: ' It's Your Idea '
Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Songs from Alice in Wonder-land, sung by Frank Luther
Conductor, Rae Jenkins. Muriel Sotham (contralto)
Magazine programme in which Australians, Newfoundlanders, and Jamaicans tell how Christmas is spent at home
at the organ of the Empire Theatre, Cardiff
from page 109 of 'New Every Morning ' and page 28 of Each Returning Day '. Disposer supreme ; Benedictus ; 0 for a faith that will not shrink
Phil Green and his Band
Seasonable music on gramophone records
Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Stokowski : Shepherds' Christmas music (Chrfstmas Oratorio : Bach)
London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates : In the Steppes of Central Asia (Borodin)
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy : First movement of Symphony No. 1, in E minor (Sibelius)
Eveline Stevenson (soprano) and Tom Bromley (piano)
on records
Conductor, Guy Warrack
followed by a recording of last night's postscript
Conducted by H. C. Jarman
Regimental March : The Village Blacksmith ....trad.
The band and choir at a large armament factory in the North entertain fellow-workers, while changing over shifts, at the factory gates. Pre- - sented by Victor Smythe
Directed by David McCallum , with Parry Jones (tenor)
The New Organolians, with Jimmy Leach at the piano
Conducted by Gideon Fagan. Alfred Barker (violin)
as Ebenezer Scrooge in ' A Christmas Carol', by Charles Dickens. Dramatised for broadcasting by Max Kester. Produced by John Burrell. (Special )
(See' Introducing -' on page 5)
Rhaglen mewn pennill a chan gan aelodau Dosbarth Drama Llandysul, o dan ofal Mrs. Mary Lewis. (Welsh verse and song)
5.20 Christmas party given by children from the United Nations, arranged by Janet Dunbar
5.45 'Getting Ready for Christmas ' : Hugh Morton invites you to accompany him to the Blue-coat School, a children's hospital, and a toy-maker's shop, to see what preparations are being made for Christmas Day
National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary
Carnival in Vienna played by Clifford Curzon (piano)
by Charles Dickens.
Adapted by Audrey Lucas.
Talk by Sir Henry Dale , C.B.E., President of the Royal Society, and, until September last, Director of the National Institute for Medical Research
Harry Welchman, Dorne and Page; 'Meet Doctor Morelle', by Ernest Dudley, with Dennis Arundell as the mysterious Doctor; Jacques Brown as 'Nikolus Ridikoulos', by Max Kester, with Doris Nichols as 'Mrs. Ponsonby'; 'Puzzle Corner'; 'Inquisition' - a slightly uncomfortable few minutes for some famous people from all walks of life, introduced by C. Denier Warren as 'The Grand Inquisitor', and presented by Leonard Urry; 'Musical Alphabet'. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman
Talk by Mary Ferguson
in celebration of his birthday
First performance in England of Ode to Stalin by Khachaturyan
BBC Chorus. BBC Symphony
Orchestra : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Weekly review of detective fiction, with dramatised excerpts, presented by Ernest Dudley. (Special recording)
Play by Romain Rolland , adapted for broadcasting by Heinrich Fischer and Cynthia Pughe , with Marius Goring as Claude Vallee , and Lucie Mann heim as Sophie de Courvoisier. Produced by Val Gielgud
and postscript
and his Orchestra
Reading of a passage from ' The Third Century of Meditation' by Thomas Traherne. Selected and presented by Edward Sackville-West
played by Watson Forbes (viola), and Denise Lassimonne (piano)
