and .summary of Forces programmes
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Gramophone records of excerpts from ' Scheherazade '
from Uncle Mac, with verse and carols to start the'day. Carols sung by Derek Barsham , the Boys' Brigade boy soprano
dung by the BBC Chorus : conductor, Leslie Woodgate
In a London street-in a country village — -town and country folk welcome the postman on his Christmas morning ' walk ', accompanied in London by Michael Standing , and in Grantchester by Gilbert Harding
and Programme Parade
from the four corners of the British Isles. A message of greeting from the bells of Westminster Abbey; St. Cuthbert's, Edinburgh; Armagh Cathedral; St. John's, Cardiff; and St. Mary's, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire
Conductor, Fred Mortimer
Selections from Handel's oratorio, on gramophone records
Choir of the States Intermediary School, of Guernsey, conducted by Winifred Roughton
from St. Mary's, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire, conducted by Canon Anthony Otter
0 come, all ye faithful (S.P. 78 : C.H. 55) Sentence
General Thanksgiving The Lord's Prayer
Versicles and Responses Venite
Psalm 8
Lesson : St. Luke 2, w. 1-20
While -shepherds watched their flocks
(S.P. 82 ; C.H. 42)
Creed and Collects
Carols.: Little Jesus, sweetly sleep
(S.P. 383) ; Angels from the realms of glory (S.P. 71 ; C.H. 65)
Address
Behold, the great Creator (S.P. 72) Prayers
Hark the herald angels sing (S.P. 74 ;
C.H. 46)
Blessing
Organist. Arthur Cowen
Munition-workers entertain their colleagues in a Christmas Day'concert at a factory in Scotland
A ' hubbub ' of recorded music and song, prose and poetry for today, contrasted and introduced by Raymond Raikes , with Bransby Williams ,-Joseph Macleod , and Geoffrey Wincotf , and the recorded voices of Harry Hemsley , Peter Dawson , Ernest Lough , and Paul Robeson. Programme edited by Peter Eton
gives a Christmas message
played by Eda Kersey (violin)
towards Victory, towards Understanding
A Christmas reunion of the peoples of the British Commonwealth and of the United Nations, linked by radio from all parts of the world to exchange greetings on the fifth war-time Christmas Day
Christmas in the British Isles : at home-with the workers-with British and Allied Forces
Christmas with the Imperial Forces Overseas : Italy-New Guinea-India Christmas in Occupied Europe
Christmas in the United Nations : Russia —China— Brazil— U.S.A.
Christmas in the Holy Land
Narrator, Howard Marshall. Music by Victor Hely-Hutchinson , played and sung by the London Symphony Orchestra and Alexander Choir , conducted by Muir Mathieson. Written and produced by Laurence Gilliam and Leonard Cottrell
Conductor, Ian Whyte. Janette Sclanders (soprano)
with C.H. Middleton, Mary Ferguson, 'The Radio Doctor', C.A. Lejeune, and Douglas Houghton
Five radio 'regulars' take a brief holiday from their regular subjects
A satirical pantomime for a war
-time Christmas, written by Michael Barsley. Produced by John Glyn -Jones
Taxi-men, ' thieves, Ministry officials played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Oddi wrth fechgyn a merched Cymru yn y Uuoedd arfog, o wledydd tramor yrt ogystal ag o wersyUoedd ym Mhrydain.
Tommy Handley in 'Well, for Santa Claus' : a Christmas Day Unfairy Story, by Dorothy Worsley. Cast includes Dorothy Summers , Fred Yule , Sydney Keith , Bryan Herbert , Ronald Chesney , and Barrett and Max Field. BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell
-. Story-Teller, Derek Mc -Culloch. Produced by Francis Worsley .
National and Regional announcements
Excerpts from the sound-track of Walt Disney's fantasy
sung by the BBC Chorus, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boillt
A Saturday-night entertainment featuring famous stars of Variety,music, and drama. Randolph Sutton , Mr. Murgatroyd and Mr. Winterbottom, Robert Donat , Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, and Elsie and Doris Waters. Revue Chorus and augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves. Producers, John Sharman and Harry S. Pepper. (BBC recording)
Appeal on behalf of the British 'Wireless for the Blind' Fund (registered under the Blind Persons Act, 1920), by the Rt. Hon. the Lord Woolton, C.H.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to [address removed]
by Lewis Carroll , dramatised by Herbert M. Prentice. Radio adaptation by Cynthia Pughe. Produced by Howard Rose
Sonata in D, Op. 53 played by Clifford Curzon (piano)
Verse and carols for Christmas
Carroll Gibbons , at the piano, invites you to join the party at the Merchant Navy Club. You meet Betty Kent , Esther Coleman , Hutch Billy Mayerl , Jack Jackson , Bill Debroy Somers , and-recorded from the U.S.A.— Rudy Vallee. Dance music played by Carroll Gibbons and his Orchestra. Produced by Alick Hayes.
