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Joseph Seal at the BBC theatre organ
Funiculi Funicula. Denza, arr. Sumner Horatio Nicholl's First Waltzes
Playboy
Clifford Birchall and Joseph Seat
Selection: Wedding in Paris
Sonny Miller and Hans May
Dance of the Bumblies...Norman Impey
Favourites old and new

Contributors

Unknown:
Joseph Seal
Unknown:
Funiculi Funicula.
Unknown:
Sumner Horatio Nicholl'S
Unknown:
Clifford Btrchall
Unknown:
Joseph Seat
Unknown:
Sonny Miller
Unknown:
Hans May
Unknown:
Norman Impey

LET'S JOIN IN. The Nativity Play, with Charles E. Stidwill as narrator and music by Ann Driver. (BBC recording)
2.20 ADVENTURES IN music. A Christmas programme: excerpts from ' Messiah.' and some Christmas carols introduced by leuan Rees-Davies
2.40 HISTORY ii. Boulton and the Soho Works: a far-sighted manufacturer uses and develops the new sources of power. Script by Miles Tomalin

Contributors

Unknown:
Charles E. Stidwill
Music By:
Ann Driver.
Introduced By:
Leuan Rees-Davies
Script By:
Miles Tomalin

for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception from Westminster Cathedral
Celebrant, Father G. T. Wright
Introduced by Father Michael Hollings
Introduction
Deus in adjutorium: Gloria Patri
Psalms 109, 112. 121. 126, and 147 (16th-century falsobordone)
Little Chapter (Proverbs 8)
Hymn: Ave Maris Stella (plainsong) Magnificat (Primi Toni: Victoria) Collect
Benedicamus Domino
Alma Redemptoris Mater (plainsong)
Master of the Cathedral Music
George Malcolm
Organist, A. Maxwell Fernie

Contributors

Unknown:
Father G. T. Wright
Introduced By:
Father Michael Hollings
Organist:
A. Maxwell Fernie

' The New Treasure Seekers *
Six stories from the book by E. Nesbit told by ' David ' 3
—' Over the Water to China '
5.15 For Older Children
' The Secret of the Lost Planet'
A serial play in six parts by Angus MacVicar
3 — ' The Invaders'
Produced by Kathleen Garscadden
Otto Schenk, a European armaments manufacturer, is determined to capture the Electronome, a mysterious machine by which the people of Hesikos send their thoughts through space. He plans to bring it back to Earth and use it as a means of stirring up war. Jeremy and his friends-along with Asa, the girl from the Lost Planet — decide to return to Hesikos to warn Solveg, Asa's father. They take off in the new ship built by Spike. Then, as they fly through outer space, something happens ...
5.50 Children's Hour Prayers conducted by the Bishop of Croydon the Rt. Rev. C. K. N . Bardsley

Contributors

Book By:
E. Nesbit
Unknown:
Angus MacVicar
Produced By:
Kathleen Garscadden
Unknown:
Rev. C. K. N . Bardsley
Jeremy:
Lesley Fraser
Dr McKinnon:
Moultrie R Kelsall
Janet:
Celia Struthers
Asa:
Patricia Leckie
Spike:
Bryden Murdoch
Madge:
Hilda Case
Petra:
James Butler
Otto Schenk:
James Sutherland

Seven broadcasts on Freedom from Want
The meaning and threat of under-development and its consequence, world poverty; the methods and aims of the campaign against it; and the new ideas that lie behind them
6-The Question of Money
Sir Arthur RuckerK.C.M.G., C.B., C.B;E. ,
Late Deputy Agent General to the United Nations
Korean Reconstruction Agency
Arthur Gaitskell, c.M.G.
Late Managing Director of the Sudan Gezira Board
Member of the Board of the Colonial Development Corporation
Ritchie Calder
In the past, money for development mostly came from private investors working for financial return. But development, as we now understand it, often calls for ' gift' capital-money that will bring in no return. Will the countries who can supply this capital be willing to risk it for the hope of arresting world poverty? Can the fear of 'economic imperialism' be avoided? What part can international action play?
Next week, the

Contributors

Unknown:
Sir Arthur Ruckerk.C.M.G., C.B., C.B;e.

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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