BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Nugent )
Conductor, Jack Leon
Forecast for land areas
Advent means Coming
A talk by Father Agnellus Andrew O.F.M.
Christ comes to the Church
Forecast for land areas
BBC correspondents throughout the world talk about the news, its background, and the people who make it
Tools or Brains: which came first ? by Kenneth Oakley, D.SC., F.B.A.
British Museum (Natural History)
Francis Jackson (organ)
Prelude and Fugue in E minor (S.548) Pastorale (S.590)
Prelude and Fugue in G (S.641)
From York Minster
Second of three recitals
Next programme, by Denis Vaughan , from Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street, London: December 21
Anecdotes by L. A. G. Strong , Eric Roberts and Richard Carrington
(s) »
Holy, holy, holy. Lord God Almighty
(BBC H.B. 169)
New Every Morning, page 50 Psalm 150 (Broadcast psalter) Revelation 4, vv. 1-11
Fill thou my life, 0 Lord my God
(BBC H.B. 271)
The Banjoliers
Directed by Jack Mandel
A mosaic of melody woven from the life and tunes of Leroy Anderson
Recordings introduced by Robert Reid
and his Band with Marjorie Daw and Dick James
A sound approach to the cinema introduced by Peter Haigh
Programme devised and produced by Trafford Whitelock
(A shortened version of Sunday's recorded broadcast in the Light Programme)
Forecast for land areas. followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Cyril Stapleton and his Show Band
David Jacobs
The Stargazers
The Adam Singers
Harold Smart
Joan Small and Michael Desmond
Produced by John Browell
by J. A. Saunders
2.30 app. 'SARAH PENDER 'S
LOVERS' by Redmond Macdonogh
Plays produced by Betty Davies
(s)
Johnny Dankworth (in a recorded programme) discusses with Roy Plomley the gramophone records he would choose to have on a desert island.
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by George Hurst
Peter Element (piano)
For Children of Most Ages
* The Extraordinary Affair of Ernest the Policeman'
A Toytown play by S. G. Hulme Beaman
Produced by Josephine Plummer
5.30 For Older Children
First Attempts
Young artists making their first broadcast
From Cardiff:
Ifan introduces
Lance Carder (accordionist)
From Manchester: Herbert introduces Bronwen Marsden
(songs with Gothic harp)
Dawn Heywood (trumpet and cornet)
Accompanist, Harry Hayward
From London:
Barbara Sleigh introduces Robert and Richard Vine
(piano duets)
At the organ. Charles Smart
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
Harry Davidson and his Orchestra
Guest artist,
Sylvia Cecil (soprano)
Introduced by Ivan Samson
Master of Ceremonies,
Bill Groves
Producer, Eric Arden
Konni Zilliacus , M.P. gives his impressions of what he heard and saw in Parliament
presenting
Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert with Denis Goodwin , Inia Te Wiata
Ronnie Barker , Patricia Hayes
Valerie Tryon , June Bronhill
Jewel and Warriss
The George Mitchell Choir
BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert )
Conductor. Harry Rabinowitz
Continuity and Ted Ray 's sketch by Terry Nation and John Junkin
' Pocket Theatre' written by Jeremy Bullmore
Produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston
A thriller by Philip Levene
Produced by David H. Godfrey
followed by late weather forecast for land areas