Readings for Sunday morning

and forecast for farmers and shipping

London Light Concert Orchestra
(Leader, Tom Jenkins )
Conducted by Michael Krein with the London Oboe Quartet

Invitation to the Dance (Weber, orch.
Berlioz) : Royal Opera House Orchestra, Covent Garden, conducted by Hugo Rignold
The Mirror Song (Thai's, Act 2)
(Massenet): Joan Hammond (soprano), with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Stanford Robinson
Violin Concerto in G minor (Bruch):
Campoli (violin), with the New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Royalton Kisch
These Things Shall Be (John
Ireland): Hall Choir and Orchestra, cfpducted by Sir John Bar birolli. with Parry Jones (tenor) on gramophone records

Conducted by John Summerson
Radio: Frank Tilsley Art: Colin Maclnnes
Films: Edgar Anstey Theatre: Ivor Brown
Books: William Plomer

and forecast for farmers and shipping

78—Mistletoe
Maxwell Knight introduces two speakers, John Gilmour and W. B. Turrill
Produced by Desmond Hawkins

' What the Donkey Saw '
A glimpse of the first Christmas
Programme written by Joseph McCulloch
Produced by Peggy Bacon
Supposing science could get us across time, as it can now get us across space, we could then see the events of the past just as they happened. But would that help us to understand them any better than the people who saw them as they were happening? Today a young scientist gets back to the first Christmas-though not by science, merely by falling asleep in a sermon. That is how he came to realise that donkeys sometimes see where the cleverest men are blind.

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

Appeal on behalf of the Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association (Provision of Homes Fund), by the General Secretary, Major-General C. A. West, c.B., D.S.O., M.C.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to [address removed]
The RoyaJ United Kingdom Beneficent Association was founded in 1863 and incorporated by Royal Charter in 1911 with the principal object ot granting annuities to gentlefolk, living in any part of the British Isies, who are physically incapacitated and unable to earn their own livelihood. and who have been reduced by ill-health or other misfortune to a state of extreme poverty
In 1949 the Association was granted a Supplemental Charter giving wide powers to p ovide homes for the aged or infirm among its beneficiaries. More than one hundred have already been placed in homes, but there are still five hundred on the waiting list and further funds are urgently needed.

by Anthony Trollope
Adapted for broadcasting in eleven parts by H. Oldfield Box
Episode 11
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham
Mrs. Proudie is dead and, beyond the Bishop himself (who feels strangely lost without her) and the gentle, saintlike Mr. Harding, no one appears to have any tears to shed for her.
Mr. Robaits, at the request of Dr.
Tempest, has tried to persuade Mr. Crawley to delay his resignation of his parish, at least until his trial is over. But Mr. Crawley, declaring that his resignation was made on principle and not because Mrs. Proudie wished it, has resisted Robarts' persuasions and has handed over his duties to the now very unwilling Mr. Thumble.
But on the following day Mr. Toogood, meeting Major Grantly, learns by telegram that Crawley is innocent; and that it was Mrs. Arabin, the Dean's wife, who gave him that disputed cheque.

I by Lord Beveridge, K.c.B.
The speakers in this series of talks have been invited to say what they would put in a letter to our descendants of A.D. 2052

' They seek a country'
Psalm 90 (Broadcast Psalter)
From Hebrews 11 and 12
Awake, our souts (BBC Hymn Book 300)
Isaiah 40, v. 31