Band of the R.A.M.C.
Conducted by Capt. L. D. Brown
Director of Music

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Australia v. England
A report on the second day's play

A gramophone miscellany

A talk by the Rev. H. F. Lovell Cocks, D.D., Principal of the Western College, Bristol

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Australia v. England
Summary of the second day's play by Alan McGilvray , Australian cricket commentator
From the cricket ground at Melbourne

BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Robert Busby

and his Band

12-English Finals

Max Jaffa (violin)
Reginald Kilbey (cello)
Jack Byfield (piano)

Come. thou long-expected Jesus (A. and M 640)
New Every Morning, page 41
Psalm 119 (4) Isaiah 35
The advent of our King (A. and M. 48)

Anton and his Orchestra

visits an old folks' Christmas party in Liverpool

and forecast for farmers and shipping

(Shortened version of last Sunday's broadcast in the Light Programme)

Listeners' requests intrcduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ

A play by Barbara Eupham Todd based on the old fairy tale with music by Iantne Dalway
At two pianos.
Ianthe Dalway an,d Josephine Lee
Production by May. E. Jenkin

* Crossings
A fairy play by Walter de la Mare
Freely adapted for broadcasting in two parts by David Davis with incidental music by C. Armstrong Giibbs
2— ‘ Good Christian Men, Rejoice '
Singers.
Diana Maddox and Robert Irwin
Pianist, Gwenn Kndght
Incidental music specially recorded by a section of the BBC West of England Light Orchestra
Conductor, Frank Cantell
Production by David Davis
The Wildersham children have left their gloomy Bayswater home for an old house in the country, ' Crossings.' They have gone there on two conditions: that they spend a fortnight there alone, and that, at the end of it, they confess that they have been happier and have proved themselves wiser than when they left Bayswater. They have been at 'Crossings' now just over a week.

Shipping and general weather forecasts. a detailed forecast for South-east England

A romantic play with music by Ivor Novello
Lyrics by Christopher Hassall
The Choir (Choirmaster, Peter Knight )
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor. Robert Busby
Adapted for broadcasting by Lyn Fairhurst
Production by Douglas Moodie
(Ivor Novello , Vanessa Lee , Olive Gilbert , and Robert Andrews are appearing in 'King's Rhapsody' at the Palace Theatre, London)
Into that benign atmosphere which we should all be enjoying on an evening but a short step away from Christmas. Ivor Novello's Glamorous Night fits snugly. It is faraway and cosy, romantic and magically unreal. It has music that is sweet and lingering (who has not hummed 'Shine through my dreams and once again ...'?) and some eminently pleasant people. Who could be more charming than Anthony, the brave inventor, taciturn but swift and strong in action? Or who more truly glamorous than the gypsy Militza, singer, patriot, and mistress of a king? Lest too much sweetness should cloy, the medal has its reverse side, the idyll has its disrupters: there is the evil politician Lydyeff and his dastardly plot to overthrow the king; and there is that most sinister character described simply as 'A Foreign Gentleman' who appears briefly, but with noisy repercussions.
For there is noise in Glamorous Night, pistol shots, explosions, ships' sirens. But they are heard, as it were, through a haze. Between us and the actual shots stands Novello the despotic monarch of Ruritanian romance. He lets us hear the world at several removes. From unpleasantnesses he guards us—except occasionally. One of those occasions is the scene in which Anthony first visits the woman whose life he has saved, and here it would almost seem that the lessons Bernard Shaw taught the theatre have not been entirely disregarded. ' Would you like a photograph? ' Militza asks and like a brutal bullet (though much funnier) comes Anthony's answer, I'd rather have a cheque.’ But that takes only a few moments. For the rest there is singing, a gypsy wedding, a night at the opera, high-minded sacrifice and all the trappings of a truly glamorous entertainment. Elwyn Jonts