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Some Christmas novelties played by the Raebum Orchestra
Conductor, Wynford Reynolds with Charles Smart (organ)

The Chapel Choir of The Thomas Coram School
Organist and Music-Master,
Aubrey Bland

In a Lancashire town, on the river Thames, in the country near the borders of Wales and England, and in a children's hospital in London, town and country folk welcome the postman on his Christmas morning walk. He is accompanied in Blackburn by Alan Dixon: on the Thames by Henry Riddell; near Abergavenny by Alun Williams; and in the children's hospital by Brian Johnston

Greetings from Chipping Norton Parish Church, Oxfordshire; St. Paul's Church, Shadwell, London: St. Andrew's Church, Plymouth; St. John's Church Cardiff; St. Philip's and St. James' Church. Holywood, County Down; Holy Trinity Church, St. Andrews. Fifeshire: St. John's Church, Seaham Harbour. County Durham: St. Mary's Church, Twyford. Hants; and the bells of Bethlehem

Light music from the city of waltzes

A Round-Britain
Gardening Scrapbook for 1949

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Heddle Nash (tenor)
Harold Williams (baritone)
Mark Lubbock and his Orchestra
Memories recalled by Freddy Grisewood

Conductor, Stanford Robinson

' How far is it to Bethlehem? '
A Christmas play by Barbara Euphan Todd
Production by May E. Jenkin
Carols specially recorded by the Choirs of the Loughton High School for Girls and Bancroft's School
Piper, Kathleen Blocksidge

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The Christmas story adapted from the Coventry Nativity Play with music by Rutland Boughton
BBC Midland Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor. James Denny

Donald Soper invites you to join him in thinking about Christmas, and in hearing Christmas music sung by the BBC Singers with George Thalben-Ball

reads his own short story
The Occupant of the Room '

Appeal on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund, by Sandy Macpherson
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Sandy Macpherson [address removed]
Twenty years ago, on Christmas Day 1929, the first broadcast appeal for the British ' Wireless for the Blind ' Fund was made, and since then the Fund has gone a long way towards meeting its object of supplying wireless sets, of simple design but good quality, to all blind people in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Eighty-nine thousand sets, including relay installations, have been supplied, but each year the Fund has applications for 3,000 to
4.000 sets. More than 7.000 adult men and women lose their sight every year. Many of them need wireless sets, and in addition the Fund has to replace, year by year. sets that are worn out.
The response to the appeal made last
Christmas Day by the Rt. Hon. Sir Norman Birkett was most generous; it amounted to £31,000. but even then the Fund was only able to meet five-sixths of the need for new sets notified to it.

'Herein is love'
Psalm 85
1 John 4, vv. 7-21
Love came down at Christmas (S.P.
92)
1 John 4. v. 14
O Jesu so meek