Falkman and his Apache Band

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Conductor, David Curry

' After this week comes Christmas'
Talks by the Most Rev. Francis Grimshaw , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham
2-Mary and Joseph trusted in God

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Sara Medina '(piano)
John Tainsh (tenor)
Frederick Stone (piano)

by Allan Chappelow
Allan Chappelow , who has recently returned from a holiday in Russia, describes people and places on a bus ride to a mountain lake high up in the beautiful Caucasus.

Records of movements from his sonatas

Primo Scala and his Accordion Band

Directed by Louis Voss

Roy Herbert chooses Count Fosco
Count Fosco was a mountainous man He never stopped eating sickly cakes, trifles, cream, and sugar. He would sit, overflowing the arms of his chair, letting his white mice run all over him. He was very partial to small animals, but did not care a great deal for human beings. He believed that the body lies at the mercy of that most omnipotent of all potentates, the chemist. Chemistry aided him in his foul career. with Robert Gladwell as Count Fosco

for twenty-five minutes of gramophone records introduced by Harry Parry

from a stocking factory in Nottingham
The Song Pedlars, Egon Regon and June Royal, Carole Carr, Jack Train
Harry Engleman (piano) Vic Mortiboys (bass) Bob Mansell (drums)
Introduced by Philip Garston-Jones
Produced by Richard Maddock

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

A spontaneous discussion by Jack Longland
Frank Byers
Anthony Wedgwood Benn M.P. ,
Edith Pitt M.P.
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
From Bream, Gloucestershire

(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conductor, Lawrence Leonard

Conducted by John Summerson
Art: Basil Taylor
Film: Dilys Powell
Theatre: Richard Findlater
Radio: Peter de Francia
Book: C. V. Wedgwood

Music from the traditional Midnight Mass sung each Christmas Eve in the Stiftskirche, Berchtesgaden
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Bayerischer Rundfunk)

Talk by Ernest Eytle
Three hundred years ago this year Admiral Penn made an assault on the Spanish-held island of Jamaica and captured it for Britain. Ernest Eytie describes three of the stages of its colourful and varied history since that time: the early days of the pirates, the days of plantation and slavery, and Jamaica today.

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

with Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe , Spike Milligan
The Ray Ellington Quartet
Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott
Announcer, Wallace Greenslade
Script bySpike Milligan
Production by Peter Eton

A survey of current affairs
Speakers in the studio in London and from regional and overseas centres, contribute news and views on the issues of today and tomorrow

late weather forecast for land areas