Tommy Pears at the BBC theatre organ

and forecast for farmers and shipping

(Leader, Philip Whiteway )
Conducted by Arwel Hughes

A Thought for the Day by the Rev. Cyril Taylor with Wilfred Brown and the St. Martin's Singers

and forecast for farmers and shipping

by a doctor.

plays some of the latest records

Millicent Silver (harpsichord)
Sonatas:
B flat (L.396): G minor (L.488); F (L.479): E flat (L.203): D (L.208): C minor (L.352): C (L.355): G minor (Cat's fugue) (L.499)

The Highland Bagpipe
Talk by Seumas MacNeill
Joint Principal of the College of Piping, and Lecturer in Physics, Umversity of Glasgow

VERDI
Records of excerpts from
' La Traviata'

Jesus, good above all other (BBC
H.B. 72)
New Every Morning, page 83 Carol: 0 little one sweet
St. Matthew 4. vv. 1-11
Child in the manger (BBC H.B. 45)

Jack Salisbury and his Salon Orchestra

and his Orchestra with Jean Campbell ,
Franklyn Boyd , and Shirley Eaton
(Don Smith and his Orchestra are appearing at the Wimbledon Palais, London)

of gramophone records

Stories of Christmas radio past and present
Introduced by Flora Robson

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

Cyril Stapleton directs the BBC Show Band with Alfred Marks, David Jacobs
The Stargazers
Janie Marden , Harold Smart
Bert Weedon , Dennis Wilson
The Show Band Singers
Script by Charles Hart
Bernard Botting and Bill Kellie Production by Leonard Trebilco

Songs of the American Civil War 1861-1865

Songs of the North: Marching along; Battle hymn of the Republic; Grafted into the Army; Tenting tonight; Kingdom coming; Battle cry of freedom; When Johnny comes marching home; Tramp, tramp, tramp; Sherman will march on the sea; Marching through Georgia

Songs of the South: Dixie; Maryland, my Maryland; Bonnie blue flag; Goober peas; Stonewall Jackson's way; Stonewall Jackson's requiem; Just before the battle; Vacant chair; Life on the Vicksburg Bluff; All quiet along the Potomac

Narrators: Guy Kingsley Poynter, Alan Keith, Alan Tilvern, John Cazabon
Songs by Benny Lee, Johnny Johnston, Bob Mallin, Rita Willams, Pat Campbell and the George Mitchell Choir
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Musical arrangements by George Mitchell and Alan Yates
Written and produced by Charles Chilton
(BBC recording: a new production of the programme broadcast on Nov. 9)
(Bob Mallin broadcasts by arrangement with Essoldo Ltd.)

Scotland and Ireland v.
England and Wales
Commentary on the second half of the representative match organised to mark the opening of the new West Stand at Lansdowne Road
Commentators:
Rex Alston and G. V. Wynne Jones with summaries by Bill McLaren
From Lansdowne Road, Dublin

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

Interesting people who are
In Town Tonight interviewed by John Ellison
Edited and produced by Peter Duncan

Eddie Arnold
Irene Handl
Alan Loveday plays the last movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D
Denis Martin
Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Home
Elisabeth Welch
The George Mitchell Choir sings 'Bless This House'
The British Concert Orchestra, conducted by Vic Oliver and Philip Martell, play the Polonaise from 'Eugene Onegin' by Tchaikovsky
Continuity by Carey Edwards
Production by Tom Ronald

As the commentator saw it
John Snagge recalls with recordings some of the major Outside Broadcasts of the year as seen by BBC commentators

followed by late weather forecast for land areas

from the Church of St. George,
Stockport
Conducted by the Vicar
The Rev. Wilfrid Garlick