Band of the Scots Guards
Conducted by Major S. Rhodes
Director of Music
and forecast for farmers and shipping
A gramophone miscellany
A talk by the Rt. Rev. Monsignor R. L. Smith , of the Church of Our Lady and St. Joseph, Carlisle
an'd forecast for farmers and shipping
BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
God rest you merry, gentlemen
The Holly and the Ivy...arr. Boughton Unto us a Boy is born arr. Geoffrey Shaw
Sussex Carol....arr. Vaughan Williams Good King Wenceslas The Wassail Song with organ accompaniment
Sidney Torch and his Orchestra
Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by John Arlott , A. G. Street , N. F. Mott , and Michael Ayrton
Travelling Question-Master ,
Freddy Grisewood
Presented by Nicholas Crocker
Come, thou long-expected Jesus
(A. and M. 640)
New Every Morning (revised) 19 Canticle 9 (Broadcast Psalter) Isaiah 35
0 little town of Bethlehem (A. and M.
642; S.P. 79)
Arthur Salisbury and his Orchestra
by Baroness Orczy
Adapted as a radio play in sixepisodes by Lester Powell
6 —' The Daydream '
Incidental music arranged and conducted by Alan Paul
Produced by Archie Campbell
Conductor, Mansel Thomas
and forecast for farmers and shipping
visits an old folks' Christmas party in Blackpool
Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ sends his listeners a selection of musical Christmas cards.
from King's College Chapel,
Cambridge
The Billy Mayerl Rhythm Ensemble with Janys Holm (soprano)
Written and produced by Eileen Hots
A programme in which the writer relives a childhood Christmas. ' When we were children, Christmas was always the same ... its rhythm exciting, deliberate.... But this Christmas was different'
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Interesting people who are
In Town Tonight interviewed by John Ellison
' Let's Go Somewhere ' with Brian Johnston
Produced by Peter Duncan
with Warden and West
The Radio Revellers
Suzette Tarri
Eric James and George Myddleton
Mr. Postlethwaite and Mr. Hugglethorpe (The patter-familiasses)
Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth
Robb Wilton
BBC Variety Orchestra Conductor, Rae Jenkins
Master of Ceremonies, Ted Ray
Producer, Michael North
A musical play written, devised, and composed by Ivor Novello
Lyrics by Christopher Hassall
Adapted for broadcasting by Lyn Fairhurst
[Starring] Ivor Novello and Mary Ellis
(BBC recording)
(Ivor Novello and Olive Gilbert are appearing in "King's Rhapsody" at the Palace Theatre, London; Peter Graves broadcasts by permission of Herbert Wilcox; Anthony Nicholls, by permission of Associated British Pictures Corporation, Ltd.)
(Ivor Novello introduces his play on page 5)
sung by the Prior and Monks of St. Benedict's Priory, Ealing
Meditation led by Father Agnellus Andrew , O.F.M.
Mass for five voices (Byrd) Credo No. 3
Proper of the Mass (plainchant)
Choirmaster, W. H. Bowyer