Elise Granados at the BBC theatre organ

and forecast for farmers and shipping

(Leader, David Paget )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz

' Always Christmas '
Talk by Dr. Leslie Cooke and a carol

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Ray Martin and his
' Melody from the Sky '
Orchestra

GRIEG
Orchestral music including the Piano Concerto in A minor on gramophone records

Feast of St. Stephen
In the bleak mid-winter (BBC Hymn
Book 51)
New Every Morning, page 15 Carol: Good King Wenceslas Acts 7. vv. 54-60
The Son of God goes forth to war
(BBC Hymn Book 235)

and his Honolulu Hawaiians with Ronnie Joynes (electric guitar) and Netta Rogera

with gramophone records

and his Orchestra with Terry Walsh , Eva Beynon
Johnny Webb , and the Ternenteers

with Wilfred Pickles from a well-known store in Oxford Street (after the customers have gone)

and forecast for farmers and shipping

(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins
Douglas Swallow (saxophone)

See columns 1 and 2

on gramophone records

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

with Vic Oliver as host and Master of Ceremonies who each week invites stars from all branches of the entertainment world
This week his guests are:
Julie Andrews
Dennis Brain
George Cameron
Ethel Revnell
Max Wall
Bransby Williams
Constance Cummings ,
Naunton Wayne , and Derek Farr
(Continued in next column)
The George Mitchell Choir
Variety Concert Orchestra (Leader, Richard Worrall )
Conducted by Philip Martell and Vic Oliver Continuity by Carey Edwards
Production by Tom Ronald

An adventure play by William Archer
Adapted for broadcasting by Howard Rose
[starring] Abraham Sofaer, Howard Marion-Crawford, James McKechnie

William Archer was a formidable Scottish dramatic critic, the early friend of Bernard Shaw, the translator of Ibsen, the advocate of the modern drama. Near the end of his life, he turned playwright on his own account and scored enormous success with a splendid, suspenseful melodrama in the best, old-fashioned manner. "The Green Goddess" ran for four hundred performances at the St. James's Theatre in 1923, and gave the late George Arliss one of his most sensational roles as the Raja of Rukh. The scene is a small and inaccessible independent state in the foothills of the Himalayas; here the aeroplane containing Doctor Traherne and Major and Lucilla Crespin makes a forced landing. The local people are barbaric and wild, but their Raja turns out to be an exquisitely mannered, former Cambridge man, with the most Western tastes, yet withal the heart of a ruthless Oriental despot; and it soon becomes clear that he has a particular reason for delaying the return of the luckless trio. (Peter Forster)

(BBC recording)
(To be repeated on Wednesday at 2.30)