and forecast for farmers and shipping

Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet

' The Word became Flesh'
Talk by Robert Crossett
'It's hard to believe in Christmas '

and forecast for farmers and shipping

The Promenade Players
Conductor, Sidney Bowman

Claire Duchesneau (soprano)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)
Arnold Ashby (cello)
Frederick Stone (piano)

by Alistair Cooke

HOW things BEGAN. 12-' Through the Ice Age.' Material compiled by Richard Palmer ; dramatic presentation by Honor Wyatt.

Come, thou long-expected Jesus (BBC
H.B. 30)
New Every Morning, page 72 Canticle 4 (Broadcast Psalter) Revelation 4, vv. 1-11
Lord of all, to whom alone (BBC H.B.
294)

Joseph Muscant and his Orchestra

SINGING TOGETHER by William Appleby. Request programme
11.20 THE WORLD OF WORK. ' What is a Good Job? ': a discussion by young people, with Alec Rodger as chairman.
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH: Programme varié de Noel. Préparez-vous a repondre aux questions et aux devinettes. Texte de Raymond Escoffey.

Augmented
BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader. George Deason )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Radio: Maxine Daniels
Variety: Sydney Shaw
TV: Graham Stark
Theatre: Edmund Hockridge
In Town Today: Max Bacon
Presented by Bill Worsley

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

FOR COUNTRY SCHOOLS. A Christmas programme: ' The Moth and the Beetle.' Script by Diana Ross
2.0 THE music Box by Gordon Reynolds
2.10 Orchestral Concert on gramophone records
Introduced by Everett Helm
Excerpts from Porgy and Bess
(George Gershwin)
Cattle; The plow that broke the plains (Virgil Thomson)
Variations on a Shaker Song (Appalachian Spring) (Aaron Copland) Hoedown (Rodeo) (Aaron Copland)

PROSE AND VERSE READINGS. ' The Football Match ' from ' Tom Brown 's Schooldays ' by Thomas Hughes

A challenger is invited to test a panel's knowledge of his county and its customs
The Panel:
James Laver , Ivor Machin
Christopher Rhodes , John Stevens
Chairman, Victor Bonham-Carter
Programme devised and compiled by Alan White
Produced by Joan Clark
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 4)

Eric Simms , with the help of recordings, shows how birds use their songs and calls to communicate with each other
Programme produced by Arthur Phillips

(Led by Fred Brough )
Conductor, John Hopkins Harold Jackson (trumpet)

with Pearl Hackney, Deryck Guyler
Charlotte Mitchell and Kenneth Connor
Music under the direction of Peter Akister
Script by Eric Barker
Produced by Charles Maxwell

by Ugo Betti

followed by late weather forecast for land areas