and forecast for farmers and shipping
' O come, all ye faithful'
Christmas morning music on gramophone records
Introduced by Frank Phillips
A Christmas anthology
and forecast for farmers and shipping
' 0 come, all ye faithful'
Isobel Baillie and the BBC Midland Chorus sing your favourite
Christmas hymns and carols accompanied by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frank Thomas ) Conducted by John Lowe
The Outside Broadcasts Department gives the Post Office a hand delivering Christmas mail in North-West London
Greetings from St. Comgall's Parish Church. Bangor, Co. Down; All Saints' Parish Church, Gresford, Denbighshire; Bradford Cathedral; St. Petrock's. Timberscombe, Somerset; St. Nicholas' Church, Aberdeen; St. Dunstan and All Saints' Church. Stepney, London: St. Chad's Cathedral. Birmingham; and the recorded bells of the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem
Frank Gillard invites listeners to join him on a pot-luck tour of Britain to hear how everybody else is spending Christmas morning in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
Reporters include John Snagge, Max Robertson; Bernard Fishwick, James Thorburn; Patrick Hogg, Johnny Kelly, Robert Dunnett; Philip Robinson, Alan Dixon, Alan Clarke; Jack McGeagh, John Body, Bill Everingham; Alun Williams, John Griffiths, Ifan O. Williams; Gerald Nethercot, Harry Walker, Philip Donnellan.
Songs and carols by fishermen from Mousehole, Cornwall; the children from Blaen-v-Cwm, South Wales; the McCusker Ceilidhe Band, Belfast; BBC West of England Singers, and BBC West of England Light Orchestra, conducted by Reginald Redman
The Christmas Goose prepared and cooked by Philip Harben
The programme edited and produced by Michael Barsley
(Jack Jackson is appearing in * Mother Goose ' at the Finsbury Park Empire, London)
A one man show by Peter Cavanagh
Twenty minutes of Christmas fun including ' The One Man Play ' and ' Side by Side '
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by Jacques Brown
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Scapa Flow
Ted Kavanagh introduces a rebroadcast of the programme recorded during a visit to the Home Fleet on January 11, 1944
Tommy Handley
Horace Percival , Bryan Herbert Bill Stephens. Dorothy Summers
Dino Galvani , Jean Capra
Paula Green , Sydney Keith
Fred Yule
Musicians of the Home Fleet
Conducted by Charles Shadwell
Script and lyrics by Ted Kavanagh
Produced by Francis Worsley
on two pianos in a programme of unbroken melody especially for you
See foot of page and pages 6 and 7
(piano)
Challenge Match
The resident team:
Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train , Richard Dimbleby versus
Radio personalities:
Audrey Russell , Margot Holden
Robert MacDermot , John Ellison
In the chair, Gilbert Harding
with Peter Ustinov , Peter Jones and the Aeolian Players
Written by Peter Ustinov and Peter Jones
Edited by Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Produced by Pat Dixon
Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
An entertainment for radio based on two hundred and eighty-seven versions of the story known in England as ' Cinderella '
Music arranged, composed and conducted by Francis Collinson
Written and produced by Francis Dillon
Appeal on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund (registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act, 1948) by the Chairman, Sir Ian Fraser , C.B.E., M.P.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]. The British Wireless for the Blind Fund makes this appeal on Christmas Day for funds to provide wireless sets for the blind of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Every year, more than four thousand new sets are 'needed. In addition to the targe number required for rhe newly blinded (approximately seven thousand adult men and women lose their sight every year) applications to the Fund for sets to replace those worn out through long years of constant use show a steady annual increase.
with Kitty Bluett
Peter Sellers , Patricia Hayes
Patricia Gilbert , Charles Hawtrey
The Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Stanley Black
Script by Eddie Maguire
George Wadmore , and Ted Ray
Produced by George Inns
