BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Nugent )
Conducted by Sidney Bowman

and forecast for farmers and shipping

(Leader, David Paget )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz

' What are we waiting for ? '
Talks by the Bishop of Birmingham, the Rt. Rev. J. L. Wilson
I-Something wonderful to happen?

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Australia v. England
Summary of the third day's play by John Arlott , of the London Evening News
From Sydney Cricket Ground

The New Casino Orchestra
Conducted by Guy Daines

Sonata in A played by Nona Lidell (violin)
Daphne Ibbott (piano)

by Alistair Cooke

HAYDN
Gramophone records of the overture to his opera ' Armida' and of his Symphony No. 93, in D

0 heavenly Word. eternal Light (BBC
Hymn Book 37)
New Every Morning, page 76
Psalm 118, vv. 1-14 (Broadcast Psalter) Isaiah 59, vv. 12-21
Guide me. 0 thou great Redeemer
(BBC Hymn Book 140)

Jack Coles and his Orchestre Moderne

and his Samba Orchestra with Ramon and Claudo and Bob Dale

Ludwig Koch discusses with his friend Maxwell Knight some of the varieties of animal expression that he has recorded
1— 'Man's Best Friend': the domestic dog. and his wilder relatives
Produced by Desmond Hawkins

V. C. Clinton-Baddeley reads the first of a series of-five readings from Charles Dickens

Crawford White , cricket correspondent of the News Chronicle, sums up the day's play at Sydney

Steve Race (piano) on gramophone records

The Coronets
Ken Lyon and George Murrell
Tito Burns
Something to Sing About
Pearl Newman
Daisy May and Company assisted by Saveen
Top of the BillEddie Calvert
Compere, Graham Stark
Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by John Simmonds

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

with Benny Lee and Pearl Carr
Announcer. Ronald Fletcher
Nat Temple and his Orchestra
Orchestrations by Malcolm Lockyer
Produced by Pat Dixon

(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie ) Conducted by Gerald Gentry
James Gibb (piano)

by Don Dallas From Russia, where there are no
Christmas celebrations, the speaker travelled into Finland at Christmas time a few years ago.

For Children of Most Ages
' Said the Cat to the Dog '
Plays by Martin Armstrong about Mompty and Peckham and the Jackson Family
12 (and last):
' The Jacksons Learn the Truth '
Produced by Eve Burgess
Christmas, the season for secrets and surprises, is in the air for the Jacksons, just as it is for all of us. But to be ' in the air ' is quite different from being ' on it '-as the Jacksons discover to their amazement.....
5.30 ' Going to the Pictures and the Theatre': Eric Gillett reviews some of the films and plays now showing
5.50 The week's programmes

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

J.C. Trewin writes on page 6

followed by late weather forecast for land areas