and forecast for farmers and shipping
Directed by Leslie Jeffries
of music by Medtner
Overture. The Secret Marriage (Cimarosa); Florestan's Recitative and Aria (Fidelio) (Beethoven); Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Rachmaninov); Suite. The Firebird (Stravinsky): on gramophone records
Conducted this week by Eric Newton
12.11 Films: Roger Manvell
12.20 Theatre: Ivor Brown
12.28 Books: Malcolm Muggeridge
12.37 Radio: John Summerson
12.45 Press: Robert Sinclair
Listeners' questions about the countryside answered by a team of experts: Brian Vesey FitzGerald , Eric Hobbis , and Ralph Wightman
Question-Master. Jack Longland
(Leader, Laurance Turner ) Conductor, John Barbirolli
3.55 Interval
From Newcastle-upon-Tyne City Hall
Collin Brooks
Wilson Harris, M.P.
Kingsley Martin
Guest speaker, James Laver Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Question-Master, Gilbert Harding
Songs and carols by the Ipswich Co-operative Junior Choir
Conductor, W. H. Dixon
Accompanist, Olive Foster
Christmas poems read by Stephen Jack and May E. Jenkin (Elizabeth)
' A Christmas Visit to Germany ': talk by Elwyn Price
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Appeal on behalf of the Friends' Service Council, by Bunty Harm an Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
' Thy King Cometh '
Psalm 118, vv. 14-26; Isaiah 40. vv. 1-11; Come. thou long-expected Jesus (A. and M. 640); St. Luke 19. v. 38