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London Light Concert Orchestra
Conducted by Michael Krein with Arthur Sahdford (piano)

Overture. Hansel and Gretel (Humperdinck): Halle Orchestra. conducted by Sir John Barbirolli
Piano Concerto No 1. in F sharp minor (Rachmaninov): Rachmaninov (piano) and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
A Carol Symphony (Hely-Hutchinson):
Me-tropole Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dolf van der Linden on gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Contents:
' Music Magazine's Christmas Card ' composed by Arnold Bax and played by Harriet Cohen
' Christmas Carols : I-For smaller choirs' by Hubert Foss. with recorded illustrations by the choir of Christ Church. Shamley Green. Surrey
'Zdenek Fibich (1850-1900) ' by Richard Gorer
A musical quiz for Christmas by Spike Hughes

Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art
Conducted by Basil Wright
12.11 Films- Dilys Powell
12.20 Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace
12.28 Books: William Plomer
12.37 Radio: M R. Ridley
12.45 Art: Demis Mathews

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A Christmas programme from all over Great Britain
Introduced by Ralph Wightman
Music arranged by Francis Collinson and played by the Wynford Reynolds Sextet
Singer, Cyril Tucker
Produced by Edward Livesey

A radio version of the story by Charles Dickens
[Starring] Alec Guinness
Other parts played by Ella Milne, Leslie Crowther, Geoffrey Underwood, Gabrielle Blunt . and Denise Bryer
Incidental music composed by Hal Evans and conducted by Trevor Harvey
Carol sung by boys from All Saints' Choir School
Production by Cleland Finn

No Christmas is ever complete without Dickens. It is fashionable today to see some of his books as savage exposures of Victorian society. It is even fashionable to dwell at length, and sometimes disparagingly, upon his private life. But at Christmas the propagandist Dickens and the Dickens sometimes difficult to live with are forgotten. To paraphrase Scrooge: every twenty-fifth of December we allow him to pillage our hearts - and never more appropriately than with 'A Christmas Carol.' Here he brings merriment and goodness of heart and a masterly sense of story-telling. Here is the very essence of good cheer, comfort, and warmth. Here is a wintry touch of spookiness with ghosts and the clank of chains. And here, most seasonal of all, is the miraculous, as Scrooge's crabbed miserliness is changed, with that suddenness and that certainly which always constitutes a miracle, into sunny generosity - and all by the spirit of Christmas which, paradoxically, Dickens seems to have done so much to create. (Elwyn Jones)
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in King's College Chapel Cambridge upon Christmas Eve

Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-east England

A programme of Christmas music specially recorded in Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy,. Austria, France, Belgium, and Great Britain, and arranged in illustration of the Christmas story as told in the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Luke
With a verse commentary by Terence Tiller
Readers : Jill Balcon
Felix Aylmer , Alan Wheatley
Produced by Terence Tiller and Maurice Brown
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' The word was made flesh '
Silent might, holy might St. John 1, vv. 1-14
Behold the great Creator (S.P. 72) 1 John 4. v. 14