Charles Smart at the BBC theatre organ

and forecast for farmers and shipping

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

Light Music String Ensemble directed by Max Jaffa

A Christmas Anthology
' The Song of Simeon '

and forecast for farmers and shipping

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

Talk by a doctor

Harold Blackburn (bass)
Elisabeth Hawkins (oboe)
(Continued in next column)

David Green describes how he came to know Blenheim Palace, including its roofs and chimneys, and the men who work on them

WILLIAM WALTON
Records of instrumental music including the Violin Sonata

Behold the great Creator (S.P. 72) New Every Morning, page 19
Carol: Little Jesus, sweetly sleep
(S.P. 383)
Philippians 2, vv. 1-11
In the bleak mid-winter (S.P. 75)

Frank Baron and his Quintet

Southern Serenade Orchestra directed by Lou Whiteson

sung by Constance Carrodus with Frederick Stone (accompanist)

from a canteen in Dunstable, Bedfordshire
with The Five Smith Brothers, Sylvia Marriott and Douglas Taylor, Michael Howard
James Moody at the piano
Presented by John Foreman

and forecast for farmers and shipping

reviews new records

Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 49 played by The Kantrovitch Trio: Vera Kantrovitch (violin)
Lilly Phillips (cello)
Hilda Bor (piano)

Conducted by Basil Wright
3.1 Films: Dilys Powell
3.10 Theatre: Philip Hope-Wallace
3.18 Books: William Plomer
3.27 Radio: M. R. Ridley
3.35 Art: Denis Mathews

(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Cyril Chapman (clarinet)

Eric Roberts tells his own story, ' Timothy of the Christmas Cards '
Birmingham Calling Hilversum
' Across the North Sea '
A Christmas programme of carols and singing games
In Hilversum:
The Choirs of the Blackbirds and the Crickets
Conducted by Leida Hulscher
Children from AJC to pl'ay the games
Orchestras conducted by Herman Kryt and Johan Jong Introduced by Ary van Nierop with the help of Elly Pauw and Kees Spaaner
Produced by Gadri de Wagt
In Birmingham:
The Choir of the Wyggeston Grammar
School for Girls, Leicester Conductor, Joan B. Niblett
Children from Claverley,
Shropshire, to play the games
Orchestra conducted by Harold Gray
Introduced by Marjorie Kromhout with the help of Janet Anderson and Sjoerd Hommers
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Programme edited by Harold Small
Children in Britain and the Netherlands meet ' on the air ' and share singing games of both countries. Dutch children talk about their own festivities and sing their favourite carols. Over here a boy and girl describe a typically English Christmas and introduce, among others, the lovely Coventry carol.

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

' He Sings to a Small Guitar'

and his guitar
A programme of gramophone records
Introduced by D. G. Bridson

by Alistair Cooke.

The story of how a rare species of bird returned to breed in England after an absence of a century Introduced by Peter Scott , with Philip Brown , Ludwig Koch. and the recorded voices of H. M. Stanford. J. K. Stamford , and F. M. Hollis. The programme, which is recorded, includes sound-pictures of avocets in East AngHa. made by Ludwig Koch
Script prepared in collaboration with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Production by Desmond Hawkins