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See Light Programme
An anthology of readings and carols by Olive Gregg and choir of the Royal School of Church Music
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O come, all ye faithful
Alexander Young (tenor) and the BBC Midland Chorus sing favourite
Christmas hymns and carols accompanied by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted by John Lowe
Reader, Anthony Jacobs
Brian Johnston visits ' the Jones family' at Dr. Barnardo's Home, Woodford Bridge, near London, and watches the children as they open their presents and Christmas stockings
Greetings from the Parish Church of St. George, Doncaster; St. Andrew's. Plymouth; St. Mark's, Dundela, Belfast; St. Peter's Colchester; the West Church of St. Nicholas. Aberdeen; St. Mary's. Brecon; the Parish Church of St. Edburgha, Yardley, Birmingham; and the recorded bells of the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem
on gramophone records
Overture, Tantalusqualen (Suppi):
Philharmonia Promenade Orchestra, conducted by Henry Krips
Serenade (Rustic Wedding Symphony) (Goldmark): Royal Phil harmonic Orchestra, conductor. Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Ballet Suite. Souvenirs (
Samuel Barber ): Philharmonia Orchestra. conducted by Efrem Kurtz
Polka (Schwanda the Bagpiper)
(Weinberger): Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Emperor Waltz (Johann Strauss ):
Columbia Symphony Orchestra. conducted by Bruno Walter
A Call at your Door in carol and custom skiffle and folk song from the seven sides of Britain linked by radio this Christmas morning and joined in Birmingham by the ballad-hunting American
Alan Lomax
Production by Charles Parker
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Requests from overseas listeners played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Join iii the chorus and sing the songs we all know
A programme of gramophone records
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East region
by Malcolm Arnold played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
This Overture has been specially commissioned by the BBC to mark the Silver Jubilee of the Christmas Day Commonwealth programme.
(Leader. Paul Beard)
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz
Richard Lewis (tenor)
Remind you of what?
Roy Plomley invites a reply from
Joyce Grenfell , Lady Pakenham
Michael Ayrton , Geoffrey Grigson
Ivan Staff
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Based on an idea by Nancy Spain
Produced by Pat Dixon
For Listeners of All Ages
Francis de Wolff in ' The Little Log Sellers'
A Christmas play written for radio by Margaret Potter and Trevor Hill with incidental music composed by Henry Reed who conducts a section of the BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead ) and Song:
' We're going to build a snowman' sung by the Whalley Range High School Choir Programme devised and produced by Trevor Hill
(: a new production of the play first broadcast in the U.S.A. and in Britain in December 1952)
Linda and Peter, the old woodcutter's grandchildren, go to the big city for the very first time, and see preparations for a Christmas they have never known. I never wanted anything until I saw that lovely fairy doll,' says Linda. But perhaps her greatest thrill is when she is taken to the cathedral steps in order to hear part of the midnight service.
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East region
1890-1957
Gramophone records of the celebrated tenor presented by Desmond Shawe-Taylor
London v. North Region
Round 3
London:
Cedric Cliffe , Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
North:
Professor W. Lyon-Blease
Dennis Chapman
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
Appeal on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund
(Registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act
1948) by Viscount Hailsham , Q.c.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to Lord Hailsham, [address removed]
Of the four to five thousand sets the Fund will be asked to supply during 1958, principally to the newly blind, the majority will be the more expensive VHF receivers now essential for satisfactory reception in many areas. The Fund will require at least C50,000 to meet this need, and once more relies on the generosity of listeners.
Christmas Edition
Script by Godfrey Harrison
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont
A Narrative of the Glyndebourne Festival
Contributors include:
John Christie ,
C.H. Carl Ebert
Frances Daykins , Rhona Byron Major Batten, David Franklin Moran Caplat , Spedan Lewis John Pritchard , Jani Strasser
Ian Wallace , Philip Hope-Wallace
Compiled by Joe Burroughs from recordings made at Glyndebourne and in London during the summer of 1957 by Leigh Crutchley. with excerpts from Glyndebourne productions on gramophone records
Narrator, Edward Ward
A sequence of poems for Christmas by William Drummond
Richard Crashaw
William Blake , Thomas Hardy
Robert Bridges , T. S. Eliot
Readers: Beth Boyd
Denis McCarthy. Gary Watson
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