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Christmas morning music on gramophone records
Introduced by Frank Phillips

A Christmas Anthology
'The Birth of Our Lord '

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Marches played by the Band. of the Grenadier Guards
Conducted by Major F. J. Harris
Director of Music
Waltzes played by the Raebum Orchestra
Conductor, Wynford Reynolds
Programme introduced by Frederick Allen

A few householders in the London area receive their Christmas mail from the hands of the unexpected postman-Brian
Johnston Max Robertson and the regular postmen follow the ' temporary's ' progress with a mobile transmitter which enables listeners to hear the reactions of the families

Greetings from St. Benet's Church, Cambridge; St. John's Church, Cardiff; Hillsborough Parish Church, Co. Down; Carlisle Cathedral; The Old Steeple, Dundee; St. Giles' Church, Willenhall, Staffordshire; the Parish Church of St. Peter, Portishead, Somerset; and the recorded bells of Bethlehem

from St. Giles' Church, Willenhall. Conducted by the Rev. S. B. Ashley (the Vicar), and the Rt. Rev. E. S. Woods , Bishop of Lichfield. Preacher, the Bishop of Lichfield
0 come. all ye faithful (A. and M.
59)
Sentences. Confession, and Absolution Versicles and Responses Psalm 85
Lesson: St. Luke 2, vv. 1-14 Benedfctus
Creed
Collect. Prayers, and General Thanks-giving
While shepherds watched their flocks
(A. and M. 62)
Sermon
Prayers
Hark. the herald-angels sing (A. and M. 60)
Blessing
Organist. James E. Marsh

Listeners are invited to join Frank Gillard on a 'pot-luck' tour of Britain to see how everybody else is spending Christmas morning.
The reporters include Raymond Glendenning, John Ellison, and Ralph Wightman.
The music includes: carols, Scottish dance music, a Polish choir, a Salvation Army Band, and contributions by Martin Boddey (tenor), Frank McDonald (tenor), Aileen McArdle (harp)
BBC West of England Singers Conductor, Reginald Redman
BBC West of England Light Orchestra
Conductor, Frank Cantell
Programme edited and produced by Desmond Hawkins
Assistant producer, John Irving

Christmas Morning Variety from R.M.S. ' Queen Elizabeth ' with Peter Cavanagh. Anne Shelton
The Hedley Ward Trio
Presented by Duncan Wood

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A black-faced minstrel show
Book written and remembered by C. Denier Warren
Choral arrangements by Doris Arnold
The show devised and produced by Harry S. Pepper

A world-wide reunion of homes and people in Britain, in Europe, in the United States, and in the British Commonwealth overseas, celebrating Christmas

Narrator Robert Donat
Produced by Laurence Gilliam and Leonard Cottrell
Narrative by Alan Burgess
Music composed by William Alwyn
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson

The Home Service

Christmas in: The United Kingdom
With the Shetland Islanders at Scalloway. On a Yorkshire farm in the Cleveland Hills.
With the steel workers on day shift, Margam, South Wales. Commentator: Wynford Vaughan Thomas
With a Festival of Britain builder, Bermondsey, London
Commentator: Edward Ward

Christmas in: Europe At the home of Odd Nansen, Oslo, Norway. At the I.R.O. Children's Village, Bad Aibling, Bavaria. Commentator: Wilfryd Thomas

Christmas in: The United States
In a New England home - Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts. Commentator: Denis Johnston

Conductor, Stanford Robinson

at two pianos

with Kitty Bluett in ' TED AND KITTY'S
CHRISTMAS' with Fred Yule
Peter Setters. Lesdie Perrins
Patricia Hayes , Betty Hardy
The Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Stanley Black
Script by Eddie Maguire and Ted Ray
Additional material by George Wadmore
Produced by George Inns

Felix Felton in ' The Giant Who Wouldn't Laugh '
A Christmas story for children and Fairyland characters played by Noel Johnson. Philip Cunningham
Ian Catford. Fred Fairclough Eric Francis , Geoffrey . Banks Violet Carson , Sybil Holroyd and John Sharp
Storyteller. Russell Napier
Written and produced by John Bridges

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

by Ted Kavanagh with Joe Linnane , Jean Capra Hugh Morton , John Glyn-Jones
The Four Ramblers
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Robert Busby Produced by John Watt

sung by the BBC Singers
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate

Appeal on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund (registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act, 1948) by the Lord Chancellor, the Viscount Jowitt, P.c. K.c.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
See ' Both Sides of the Microphone '

by J. B. Priestley
Adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh
Production by Martyn C. Webster

Introduction and Allegro for harp, -flute, clarinet. and string quartet played by Gwendolen Mason (harp)
Gareth Morris (flute)
Frederick Thurston (clarinet) and the Martin String Quartet