A talk by David Scott Blackhall
Forecast for land areas
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Introduced by Michael Brooke
A talk by David Scott Blackhall
Forecast for land areas
by Joyce Hedges
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Gramophone records including movements from ' Scheherazade '
Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players
Impressions of the first day at school of a Welsh country boy in the 1920s
Written by Cledwyn Hughes
Produced by Wilbert Lloyd Roberts
' The most alone first journey is to school, where one small boy stands solitary for the first time among giant children with great shoes and loud voices and long pigtails.... It was the school by the rose garden, and the whole memory of my first day is coloured by the remembrance of that garden of roses....'
(Loader, J. Mouland Bobbie )
Conducted by Bryden Thomson
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
A spontaneous discussion by A. G. Street
Lord Boothby, K.B.E.
Lady Pakenham
The Bishop of Crediton
Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Arranged by Michael Bowen
From the Chew Valley Secondary
School, Chew Magna. Somerset
For nine years, between 1926 and 1934, a Nativity Play called Bethlehem was broadcast every Christmas from the small Cornish village of St. Hilary. The last performance in 1934 was recorded.
The Rev. Vernon Mitchell recently visited St. Hilary and introduces reminiscences by some of those who took part and excerpts from the last performance
Produced by Harold Rogers
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(piano)
Three Chorale Preludes (Bach, arr.
Kempff)
Hcrzlich thut mich verlangen In dulci jubilo Nun freut euch
Arabeske (Schumann)
Gondolieri (Annees de Pelerinage)
(Liszt) on gramophone records
The story of the novel by Charles Dickens made into a radio serial play by John Keir Cross
7 — ' The Marshalsea becomes an orphan '
Produced by Peter Watts
on gramophone records
Presented by William Mann
The cast includes: with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Herbert von Karajan
A message of comfort and cheer for all in trouble, sorrow, need. sickness, or any other adversity '
Stuart Hibberd introduces a talk by Mrs. Gwenith Davies
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
An operetta in three acts
Libretto by Victor Leon and Leo Stein
English version by Christopher Hassall
Music by Franz Lehar
Sadler's Wells Chorus
(Chorus-Master, David Tod Boyd )
Sadler's Wells Orchestra
(Leader, John Ludlow )
CONDUCTED BY William REID
Producer, Charles Hickman
From Sadler 's Wells Theatre, London
(by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera Company)
The action takes place in Paris at the turn of the century
Act 1
The grand salon at the Pontevedrian Embassy
Act 2
The garden of Anna Glavari 's mansion: evening of the next day
Act 3
The same as Act 2, later that night
reading
Poems for Christmas
Listeners will recall the late Robert Donat as the narrator in the round-the-world Christmas Day broadcasts, also the programmes of poetry he broadcast at this time of year. This programme is a further selection from the recordings of favourite poems he made at home between 1953 and the summer of 1958 when he died.
Programme arranged and introduced by John Donat
The Lyric Trio:
William Bennett (flute)
Margaret Moncrieff (cello) Margaret Norman (piano)
