Reading for Sunday morning The Story of St. Christopher from ' The Golden Legend '
Read by Norman Mitchell

and forecast for farmers and shipping

The King Palmer Light Orchestra with Bronwen Jones (piano)

A service for Advent, from St. John's Church, Blackheath. Conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. Martin Parsons. Preacher, Canon M. A. C. Warren . D.D., General Secretary of the Church Missionary Society
Come. thou long-expected Jesus (A. and M. rev. 54)
Prayers
Psalm 100
Lesson: St. Matthew 3, v... 1-13 Benedictus
Creed and Collects
Prayers
Jesu, our hope, our heart's desire
(A. and M. rev. 146)
Sermon
(Continued in next column)
Hark the glad sound (A. and M. rev.
53)
Blessing
Organist, W. L. Wilson
Jesus was dramatically announced before he came. After he had come, people, then as now, were divided into three groups: those who thought him an anti-climax: those for whom he was the very hope by which they lived: those who were unaware that he had ever come.

Serenade for Strings, Op. 11 (Dag
Wiren): Stockholm Radio Orchestra, conducted by Stig Westerberg
Piano Concerto No. 3. in D minor
(Rachmaninov): Vladimir Horowitz (piano) and the R.C.A. Victor Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner
Danse Slave (Chabrier) : Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Enrique Jorda on gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Contents:
Zoltan Kodaly (born December 16, 1882) ' by Scott Goddard
Music Magazine remembers ... ' Carols at Christmastide ' by Father Bernard McElligott
' The Inevitable Editor. 3-The Maddening Slur ' by Sydney Harrison

Five experts on films, theatre, books, radio, and art
Conducted by Walter Allen
Art: Basil Taylor
Films: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Theatre: Alan Dent
Books: Elspeth Huxley Radio: Henry Reed

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Christmas General Number from the Midlands
Introduced by Ralph Wightman
Tom Woolliscroft from Warslow, Staffordshire
Ambrose Ingham from Knowle, Warwickshire
Norman Bucknell from Waterlane, Gloucestershire
John Gradon from Craswall, Herefordshire
Pamela Smith from Clopton, Nottinghamshire
Fred Dytham from Yarwell. Northamptonshire The ' Stamford Bullard's Song' arranged by Francis Collinson and sung by Robert Ellis
Programme produced by Philip Donnellan

and his Viennese Music

by Lance Sieveking
A radio drama in three parts based on the novel
' The Wrecker ' by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
' Part 3
(Continued in next column)
Other parts played by: Bernard Rebel, Marc Sheldon Stanley Beard , David Stevens and Gordon Gow
Produced by Cleland Finn

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

The BBC's team of correspondents in New York report on the week's proceedings

Lili Kraus (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
(Continued in next column)
Beethoven's Piano Concerto in C minor has an unusually fine slow movement, so it is interesting to. recall that * Nimrod,' the most famous of the Enigma Variations, owed its origin to an evening walk when A. J. Jaeger discoursed eloquently to Elgar on the slow movements of Beethoven.
' Nimrod ' is thus both an evocation of the general mood of Beethoven's slow movements (with a marked suggestion of the Adagio of the ' Pathetique ') and a tribute to Jaeger, a man who was, in Elgar's words, ' a dear friend, valued adviser, and stern critic.' And since the word Jaeger, in German, means ' hunter,' Elgar chose, as the title of the variation, the name of Nimrod, the ' mighty hunter.'
Harold Rutland

Appeal on behalf of Reedham School by Sandy Macpherson
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Reedham School (formerly Reedfcam Orphanage) is in urgent need of funds. Nearly three hundred children of all ages from one year old, who have lost either fathers or mothers or are complete orphans, are being cared for, receiving that love and devotion they would have had under more fortunate circumstances. They are being brought up together a one large happy family.
This home for children is not nationalised, and the greater part of its income has to be raised by voluntary contributions—approximately £25,000 yearly.

by Arnold Toynbee
6-The World and the Greeks and Romans
In this last lecture Arnold Toynbee compares the world's reaction to the Greet and Roman expansion with the contemporary world's reaction to the West.
These lectures are being printed in ' The Listener'

Fifty years ago
Coronation of King Edward VII — Caruso and Melba at Covent Garden - End of the Boer War - Airship flies over London - England's greatest Test Team - Songs and music of the year
Written and compiled by Leslie Baily
Music arranged and composed by Alan Paul
Sir Adrian Boult , Neville Cardus
Miss E. R. D. Johnstone
James McKechnie
Valentine Dyall , Ella Milne
Oliver Burt , Eric Phillips
Patricia Field , Howieson. Culff
John, Forrest, Dorothy Black
Lookwood West , Clarence Wright Roger Snowdon. Michael Ashwim
Geoffrey Barrie
The pages turned by Freddy Grisewood
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra and Chorus
Conducted by Alan Paul
Production by Vernon Harris

'The Promise of Salvation'
Psalm 96 (Broadcast psalter)
Isaiah 40, vv. 1-11
All glory to God (BBC Hymn Book 29)
Zechariah 2, v. 10