A carol for the day and a Christmas reading by Adza Vincent.
(Recording of Friday's broadcast)
Forecast for land areas
An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing.
See Light Programme
A carol for the day and a Christmas reading by Adza Vincent.
To be repeated on Sunday at 7.50 a.m.
Forecast for land areas
An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing.
See Light Programme
by Edward Armstrong.
Traditional Wren Processions associated with the season of Christmas are fast dying out, but traces of them remain. Today we see the wren as a rather charming little brown bird, but some countrymen still regard it as a bird of ill omen. Folklore reveals it as something monstrous, requiring enormous human effort to kill and secure its tiny carcase.
Edward Armstrong delves into the mysteries of these ancient Wren rituals.
(The recorded broadcast of December 22. 1957, in the West Of England Home Service)
played by Liza Fuchsova and Paul Hamburger.
(BBC recording)
Love divine, all loves excelling (BBC H.B. 329)
New Every Morning, page 15
Carol: On Christmas night all Christians sing
1 John 1, vv. 1-10
O Christ, redeemer of our race (BBC H.B. 54)
Bernard Monshin and his Rio Tango Band
Reports from Britain and overseas.
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region.
[Starring] Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield
with Wallas Eaton, The Keynotes
BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert)
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
(Thursday's recorded broadcast in the Light Programme)
Richard Dimbleby (in a recorded programme) discusses with Roy Plomley the gramophone records he would choose to have with him if he were condemned to spend the rest of his life on a desert island.
(Previously broadcast on October 13)
A new Christmas play for radio by Morley Troman.
Adapted from an old French folk-tale.
(BBC recording)
For Children of All Ages
' Christmas in Kenya' by Mervyn Cowie
Director of the Royal National Parks of Kenya
5.15 My True Love Sent To Me'
A play by Irene Hall with music by Reginald Redman
Music played by the BBC West of England Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon ) conducted by Reginald Redman with the Choir of Stonar School for Girls directed by Gwen Hanvey
Production by Mollie Austin
Forecast for land areas,
and introduces the BBC Revue Orchestra (Leader, Antony Gilbert )
Conducted by Vic Oliver
David Mason
Cardew Robinson William McAlpine
' Jobs I Have Held'
1-Father Christmas
Written by Johnny Speight
The George Mitchell Choir
' Vic in a Spot'
A mystery puzzle introduced by Ernest Dudley in which you are invited to listen to the problem and see if you can spot the clue which Vic Oliver should have seen and which would have prevented him from landing himself in a spot
Written by Ernest Dudley
June Bronhill , Anna Pollak
Elsie and Doris Waters
Continuity by Carey Edwards
Produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston
The novel by Howard Mason freely adapted for radio by Norman Edwards
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
Night club song written by Gloria Nugent and Alan Paul
Produced by R. D. Smith
Movements from
Schubert's Octet in F played by members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on a gramophone record
