A reading for St. Stephen's Day by William Austin
Read by Mary O'Farrell

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BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, Donald Sturtivant )
Conducted by Leo Wurmser
Music of the Strauss family

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A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
' Weber and German Romantic Opera,' by Mosco Carner
' Musical Profile: Nathan Milstein ,' by John Warrack
' An Ancient Music Drama for Christmas,' by Inglis Gundry
' Music Magazine's Scrapbook for 1954 '

This week in the Home Service

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

Desmond Hawkins introduces some of the old songs which people of the West-Country sang in their homes and at their work, and which have been collected by Francis Collinson and others
The singers:
Marjorie Westbury
Bernard Fishwick
Frederick Harvey , John Runge with the Harold C. Gee Sextet
The girls' section of the Choir of Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol and the Men's Chorus of the BBC West of England Singers
Conducted by Reginald Redman

Scenes from Smetana's opera
(sung in Czech) on gramophone records
Cast in order of singing: with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Prague National Theatre
Conducted by Jaroslav Vogel

Conducted by John Summerson
Art: Eric Newton
Film: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Theatre: Eric Keown
Radio: Stephen Potter
Book: Pamela Hansford Johnson

Part 2

Arthur Calder Marshall
This week he talks about ' Big Tiger and Christian' by Fritz Muhlenweg , translated by Isabel MacHugh and Florence MacHugh , 'Man on Earth' by Jacquetta Hawkes , and ' Groucho ' by Arthur Marx.

For Younger Listeners
' The Tear of an Angel'
A Christmas story by David Lindsay told by David
followed by For Children of Most Ages
' How Santa Claus
Came to Simpson's Bar '
A play for Christmas byRalph de Rohan
Based on the story by Bret Harte
Produced by David Davis
It was Christmas Eve in the year 1862. In the valley of the Sacramento heavy rain had been falling: in places the river had overflowed its banks and Rattlesnake Creek was impassable. The little mining settlement of Simpson's Bar, rough and ready as the men who built the wooden shacks of which it was composed, clung like a swallow's nest 10 the side of Table Mountain and shook in the blast.

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

Act 1

A true ghost story of an experience in East Bengal
Told by W. Sheppard

by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dramatised as a serial by R. J. B. Sellar
8—' The End of the Story '
Production by James Crampsey
St. Ives is now in very great danger. His scoundrelly cousin Alain, with a small company of Bow Street Runners, has trailed him to Edinburgh. He is almost penniless, having left most of his money with Flora Gilchrist and deposited the remainder in a bank. He dare not approach the one lest he imperil his sweetheart, nor the other because it is being closely watched. And he must have money to contrive his flight 'to France.

Historic, famous, and personal occasions recalled from past broadcasts by the voices of the people who were there
Introduced by David Lloyd James
Produced by Phyllis Robinson

' The Word was made Flesh '
Nunc dimittis (Broadcast Psalter) St. John 1, vv. 1-14
0 Jesu so meek. 0 Jesu so kind
(BBC Hymn Book 529)
1 John 4. v. 14

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