and forecast for farmers and shipping
A gramophone miscellany
A Christmas Anthology
' The Shepherds '
and forecast for farmers and shipping
The Melachrino Strings
Conducted by George Melachrino
A programme of carols and Christmas music from Canada by the Choir and Orchestra of the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation
Conducted by Louis Applebaum
Introduced by Gordon Jones
Produced by Patricia Fitzgerald
A short story by Liam O'Flaherty
Read by Stephen Jack
The first spring sowing of their own field is a landmark in the married life of a young peasant couple, like Martin and Mary in this story of modern Ireland.
Conducted by Michael Krein
Feast of St. Stephen
In the bleak mid-winter (BBC Hymn
Book 51)
New Every Morning, page 4
Carol: Good King Wenceslas Acts 7, vv. 54-60
The Son of God goes forth to war
(BBC Hymn Book 235)
Conductor, Major Bernard Adams
Favourite music from gramophone records made by world-famous artists
A Toytown play by S.G. Hulme Beaman
Produced by Josephine Plummer
with Alfred Marks and the Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Stanley Black
Script by Sid Colin
Produced by Roy Speer
and forecast for farmers and shipping
All-star Gala Variety
Produced by Tom Ronald and Michael North
Introduced by Bernard Braden and Barbara Kelly with Dick Emery
Harry Parry accompanied by his Trio
Leslie Henson and Betty Paul
Peter Grant , Jimmy O'Dea
Elisabeth Welch
Elsie and Doris Waters
Clarice Mayne, Randolph Sutton
Hetty King
The George Mitchell Glee Club
Commentary by Raymond Glendenning, assisted by Tom E. Webster as race-reader
From Kempton Park Racecourse
by John Betjeman
Raymond Baxter and Brian Johnston have their microphones by the ring and behind the scenes to broadcast some of the thrills of this year's show at Olympiam
A detective play written for broadcasting by Margery Allingham with Denise Bryer , Gabrielle Blunt
John Carol , Sarah Leigh Ella Milne , Evelvn Moore
Elsa Palmer , Gladys Spencer
Produced by Peter Watts
Fancy Free
A special Christmas edition
The Morton College Pantomime written by Muriel Levy and Trevor Hill with Hugh Morton
Violet Carson , Fred Fairclough Doris Gambell , Herbert Smith and Muriel Levy
Incidental music provided by the Northern Variety Orchestra Conducted by Vilem Tausky
Produced by Trevor Hill
15.50 Children's Hour prayers conducted by the Rev. Duncan MacGillivray
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast
for South-East England
A programme of games and puzzles
The programme is devised by Hubert Phillips
The production is by Malcolm Baker-Smith
The various items have all been recorded but, with one exception, are all spontaneous and unrehearsed. The exception is a dramatised crime-detection story to which listeners are asked to find the solution.
Abbey Simon (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, George Stratton )
Conductor, Josef Krips
Beethoven
Overture: Fidelio
9.48 app. Piano Concerto No. 4, in G
10.21 app.'Symphony No. 4, in B flat
