Creswell Colliery Band
Conductor, Ernest Woodhouse

and forecast for farmers and shipping

and his Orchestra

A talk by Canon J. E. Fison

and forecast for farmers and shipping

A midweek bulletin of food news
Compiled by Louise Davies

on gramophone records

Doris Veale (piano)
Evelyn Cuthill (soprano) Clifton Helliwell (piano)

by Geoffrey Williamson
We tend to think of Greenland as frozen and uninviting, and so it is for the greater part of the year: but for a brief spell each summer there are places well within the Arctic Circle that can be steeped in sunshine and where it is possible to walk to the edge of the ice cap itself.

STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' The real Robinson Crusoe '—Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721). Script by Rhoda Power.

Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
(BBC H.B. 102)
New Every Morning, page 29 Canticle 8 (Broadcast psalter) St. Matthew 9, vv. 9-17
Think, 0 Lord, in mercy (BBC H.B.
449)

Ian Stewart and his Quintet

MUSIC AND MOVEMENT II, by Marjorie Eele
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS II
11.40 FRENCH FOR SIXTH FORMS. La Provence et sa musique populaire. Causerie de Ren6 Elvin. (BBC recording)

Len Marten introduces records of some of the ' Tops' in the world of entertainment

An agricultural weekly
Topical talks of interest to farmers and country people
News commentary by Robert Henriques
Introduced by George Villiers

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

Reports from Britain and overseas

Records by popular bands from both sides of the Atlantic
Introduced by David Jacobs

LET'S JOIN IN. 'Snow': a winter story of country life. by Ruth Ains worth
2.20 ADVENTURES IN MUSIC. Petrushka first of two illustrated talks by Roger Fiske
2.40 HISTORY it. The Reform Act of 1832. Script by Antony Brown

Double Bill
• IT'S A LONG LANE' by Betty Stafford Robinson
3.25 app. 'COBBER BRISTOWE' by Ron Westacott
Plays produced by Audrey Cameron

from Leeds Parish Church
Sentence, Confession, Absolution, and the Lord's Prayer
Versicles and Responses Psalms 93 and 94 First Lesson: Micah 4, v. 1, to 5. v. 1 Magnificat (Stanford in A)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 3
Nunc dimittis (Stanford in A) Creed, Responses, Collects
Anthem: The heavens are telling the Father's Glory (Schiitz)
Prayers and Blessing
Precentor, Trevor Bone
Organist and Choirmaster.
Melville Cook

For Older Children
' Counterspy *
A new serial by John Darran featuring security officers Greg Vaughan and ' Rocky ' Mountain in their latest assignment, 'The Jupiter Case '
3—' The Silver Raft'
Production by Lorraine Davies
5.50 Children's Hour prayers
Four talks for the New Year by Clifford Othen
4—-' Losing Heart'

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

A comment on the home news
Speaker, Tom Driberg

played by the Jim McLeod Quintet

Episode 14
Script by Godfrey Harrison
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont

Five discussions on questions facing trade unionists today
3--Compulsory Overtime
Harry Phipps
Branch Official of the Amalgamated Engineering Union and a pipe-fitter welder in a Manchester chemical works
John Plant
A member of the Transport and General Workers' Union and Branch Chairman in a London bus garage
Asa Briggs
Professor of Modern History in the University of Leeds, formerly Reader in Recent Social and Economic History in the University of Oxford
Changes in organisation and in methods constantly give industry new problems to solve. Until fresh principles are agreed and established, these problems tend to recur again and again as causes of industrial unrest.
In each of the programmes of this series two trade unionists and an economic historian discuss one of the principles that has been at stake in recent industrial disputes.

Frederick Grinke (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Festival Hall, London
Parti

Part 2

Three talks on the impact which science has made, and may make, on common ideas of life and how to live by Sir Geoffrey Vickers , V.C.
3-Decisions and Valuations
Can we have any say about the course of human society or is our sense of having initiative' an illusion? In the last of his talks Sir Geoffrey Vickers suggests that science can already throw light on the nature of human decisions and may one day reach a point of contact with the deepest ethical values.

William Gilman presents gramophone records of popular Portuguese music

late weather forecast for land areas

A review of today's overseas commodity and financial news, and the London Stock Market closing report