and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Conducted -by Lt.-Col. George Miller. (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

' Our Bill on the Kitchen Front', by Freddy Grisewood

Record programme of tunes and songs from the stage. Written and arranged by Roy Plomley

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell

at the organ of the Granada, Tooting

and his Mazurka Orchestra

from page 97 of "New Every Morning" and page 36 of "Each Returning Day". Unto us a boy is born; Psalm 15; The Son of God goes forth to war

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra

Symphony No. 5, in E minor (From the New World) played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra : conductor, Guy Warrack

' Ceilidh in the Western Isles' : talk by David Cleghorn Thomson

Conducted by H. Evetts

given by war-workers during their lunch-hour break in a factory in the South

Fedora Bernard (contralto) and Margaret Good (piano)

Excerpt from the pantomime at the Stoll Theatre, London, written, produced, and presented by Emile Littler and Orchestra under the direction of Pat Thayer

Conducted by Julian Clifford. Henry Hoist (violin)

Play from Kenneth Grahame's book, "The Wind in the Willows", by A.A. Milne. Music by H. Fraser-Simson. Adaptation and production by Gordon Crier
Revue Chorus and Augmented Revue Orchestra, conducted by Manuel Thomas

(see "Introducing -" on page 5)

National and Regional announcements

Conducted by Harold Lowe

sung by the Eryri Singers, conducted by Arwel Hughes

and his Orchestra, with Beryl Davis , Georgina, Len Camber , George Evans , Derek Roy , the Singing Sweethearts, Three Boys and a Girl

'Young Allies ' : radio picture of children of all nations in Britain this Christmas united in celebration of the children's festival. Written by Basil Woon , and directed by Brigid Maas. Music specially composed by Victor Hely-Hutchinson , and played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Muir Mathieson , with Robert Donat as narrator. Recording of the eleventh of a series under the direction of Laurence Gilliam , broadcast weekly in the BBC North American Service, and re-broadcast in the United States by the Blue Network

Overture: The Impresario Symphony
No. 39, in E flat played by the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Clarence Raybould

Ernest K. Lindley

Play by Edgar Wallace , adapted and produced by Hugh Stewart

New revue for Boxing Day, with Edward Cooper , Cherry Lind , Arthur Marshall , Graham Payn and Athene Seyler. Clive Richardson and Tony Lowry at two pianos. Book by Phillip Leaver. Music by Edward Cooper and Geoffrey Wright. Produced by Reginald Smith

A reading, by Felix Aylmer, from Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'

(Until 0.20)