and forecast for farmers and shipping

Norma Procter (contralto)
David Galliver (tenor) and the BBC Midland Chorus sing favourite
Christmas hymns and carols accompanied by the BBC Midland Orchestra
(Led by James Hutcheon ) Conducted by John Lowe
Organ. George Miles
Reader, Robert Speaight

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Outside Broadcast commentators accompany three postmen on their Christmas-morning rounds
Raymond Baxter knocks on the door of the Variety Artistes' Home at Twickenham, where he helps the old people to open their Christmas parcels
Henry Riddell delivers the mail to the men aboard the North Goodwin Lightship
Brian Johnston goes with the postman into the Princess Louise. Hos pital for Children in Kenstrfgton, and talks to the children as they open their presents

Greetings from Liverpool Cathedral; the Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin. Painswick, Gloucestershire; the Parish Church of St. Philip and St. James. Holywood. Co. Down; Great St. Mary's Church. Cambridge; St. Mary's Cathedral. Glasgow; Llandaff Cathedral; the Priory and Parish Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. Leominster. Herefordshire; with the recorded bells of the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem

BBC staff correspondents in many parts of the world describe how they are spending Christmas in faraway places with different customs and climates

A chain of radio greetings and Christmas cards to every listening family, sent from all over the land in music, story, song and broadcast pictures of the Christmas scene

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

with Tom Webster
(xylophone, marimba and vibraphone) accompanied by Billy Mayerl

The well-known American folk singer and guitarist recalls his childhood Christmases in South Carolina assisted by The George Mitchell Choir and Jack Fallon (bass)
'Produced by Charles Chilton

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Written by Louis MacNeice and Ritchie Calder

Music composed by Matyas Seiber played by the London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Walter Goehr Produced by LAURENCE GILLIAM AND JOHN BRIDGES
The Sound of the Stars JODRELL BANK, CHESHIRE: ' ... using radio waves for the exploration of space' Atomic Energy for Peace CANADA: ' ... we hope to harvest crops beyond the Arctic circle' AUSTRALIA: 'Atomic energy will revolutionise Australia' INDIA: 'Atomic energy is not merely an end, it is an absolute necessity' Africa: Soil and Water RHODESIA : ' Now I have hope that when my son will also be an improved farmer ...' UGANDA: ' ... the immemorial Nile diving through a turbine' GOLD COAST: ' We have never been beaten by an insect yet

Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train , Richard Dimbleby and Kenneth Horne
Presented by C. F. Meehan

For Children of All Ages
' The Pilgrim of a Night'from
' A Child's Book of Saints ' by William Canton
Told by David
In the first sweet hours of the restful night Isidore became aware that he was walking among strange fields on a hillside, and on the top of a hill some distance away there were the white walls and low flat-roofed houses of a little town; and some one was speaking to him and saying, ' These are the fields in which the Shepherds watched, and that rocky pathway leads up the slope to Bethlehem.'
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' How far is it to Bethlehem? '
A Christmas Journey to the Holy Land with David Lloyd James and Carols sung by the Orpington Junior Singers
Conducted by Sheila Mossman
Produced by Harold Rogers

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

(baritone) with Jacqueline Bonneau (piano) on gramophone records

Living Off the Country
Speakers:
Peter Fleming who has travelled, widely in East and Central Asia and Brazil
Patrick Leigh Fermor who knows the Balkans, Greece, the Caribbean, and Central America
Dr. A. J. (Jock) Marshall the Australian explorer and zoologist whose experience has been mainly in New Guinea
Robert Thompson who. during the war, escaped from Hong Kong and travelled across China to rejoin the British Forces in Burma
Chairman, Bernard Fergusson who marched into Burma with both the Wingate expeditions
There are two good reasons for ' living off the country.' The first is necessity and the second a desire to experience hitherto untasted delicacies. The five men who meet together in this programme to discuss the seasonal topic of food and drink have eaten the local food for both reasons in the farthest quarters of the globe.

by John Galsworthy
Adapted for broadcasting in twelve parts by Muriel Levy
Part 10
Other parts played by members' of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Production by Hugh Stewart
On hearing that his son Jolly has enlisted, Jolyon returns home from Paris. At Timothy's house on the Bayswater Road the enlistment of Jolly Dartie and Val Dartie is heavily discussed. Timothy himself makes a rare appearance. Soames arranges a meeting with Jolyon, asking him to use his influence with Irene and persuade her to let bygones be bygones.

Wireless for the Blind
Appeal on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund (registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act 1948) by the Rt. Hon. Sir Walter Monckton, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., m.c, Q.c., Minister of Labour and National Service
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
The British Wireless for the Blind Fund makes this one appeal each year for funds to provide wireless sets for blind people in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
The Fund would like to place on record its great appreciation of the generous response received from listeners over the years-but. again. approximately 4,000 sets will be required to meet the need of the newly-blinded, for some 11,000 people lose their sight each year. In addition. there is the need for replacement of old sets that are worn out after long years of constant use.

The story of a great partnership in six episodes by Leslie Baily
4—' The First Quarrel'
Other parts played by: Eric Phillips. Olwen Brookes
George Skillan. Ysanne Churchman; and Betty Fleetwood
Narrator, Hugh Burden
The songs from the operas sung by: Webster Booth Gwen Catley
Victoria Elliott. Arnold Matters
George James . Janet Howe
Denis Bowen , Gilbert Wright
Pianist. Alan Richardson
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concert Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras Production by Vernon Harris
(The BBC acknowledges the assistance of Miss Bridget D'Oyly Carte and of Sir Newman Flower , the biographer of Sir Arthur Sullivan )

(Christmas Tree) played by Ilona Kabos (piano) on gramophone records

' The Word was made Flesh'
Psalm 85 (Broadcast Psalter) St. John 1, w. 1-14
Behold, the great Creator makes himself a house of clay (BBC H.B. 44)
1 John 4, v. 14

followed by late weather forecast for land areas