A carol, a Bible Reading. and a poem by David Scott Blackhall

Forecast for land areas

A guide to sound and vision broadcasts for Christmas Day

(piano) plays Schumann's ' Carnaval ' on a gramophone record

A carol, a Bible Reading, and a poem by David Scott Blackhall

Forecast for land areas

A guide to sound and vision broadcasts for Christmas Day

Norma Procter (contralto) 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, Bernard Hepton
George Miles (organ)
Ding dong merrily
The holly and the ivy The Coventry Carol
For unto us (Messiah)
While shepherds watched A Song of Mary
The Kings (Cornelius) 0 come, all ye faithful with other seasonable music

Her Majesty's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth
To be repeated at 1.0 p.m. followed by NEWS

Greetings from Blackburn Cathedral; the Parish Church of Lady St. Mary, Wareham. Dorset; St. Donard's Church. Belfast; the Parish Church of St. Mary. Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire; Elkstone Parish Church, Gloucestershire; Holy Trinity Parish Church. St. Andrews, Fife; St. Gwendoline's Church, Talgarth, Breconshire: and the recorded bells of the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem

from First Newtownards Presbyterian Church, Co. Down, conducted by the Minister, the Rev. A. M. Adams
The race that long in darkness pined
(R.C.H. 57)
Prayer
In nightly stillness (Polish Carol) Children's Talk
Lesson: St. Luke 2, vv. 1-7
Love came down at Christmas
(R.C.H. 52)
Talk
Prayer
0 come, all ye faithful (R.C.H. 55) Lesson: St. Luke 2, vv. 8-18
Talk
Prayer
0 greatly blessed the people are
(Metrical Psalm 89, vv. 15-18)
Benediction
Organist. Gordon Wilkinson

A gramophone programme including music by Rossini, Johann Strauss Tchaikovsky, and Grieg played by the Halle Orchestra
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli

reading
Poems for Christmas
A 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

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra
Guest artist:
Sidney Burchall (baritone)
Introduced by Ivan Samson
Master of Ceremonies,
Charles Crathorn
Produced by Eric Arden
The programme includes: Waltz; Military Twostep; Barn Dance; Progressive Waltz; Clarendon Saun ter: Boston Twostep: Valse Cotil lion: Schottische; Fifth Figure of the Lancers; Dinkie Onestep

Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region

Her Majesty's recorded Christmas Message to the Commonwealth followed by NEWS

with Sidney James
Hugh Morton , Wilfred Babbage
Frank Partington
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Produced by Tom Ronald

Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train , Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers
Presented by C. F. Meehan
From the VHF Exhibition, Brighton

From the many broadcasts on BBC sound and television Gale Pedrick selects highlights that listeners may like to hear again
Introduced by John Ellison
Edited by John Haslam

Sixty minutes of music arranged and conducted by Stanford Robinson with the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader. William Armon ) and the BBC Chorus
June Bronhill (soprano)
Denis Dowling (baritone)
Joan and Valerie Trimble
(two pianos)
The programme includes: and a selection of Lionel Monckton 's Melodies

Memories of the early days of motoring
Written and introduced by Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Stuart Forsyth

(piano)
Le tic-toc-choc (Couperin) Polonaise in C (Beethoven) Rondo in E flat (Hummel)
Valse-Impromptu; Grand Galop
Cromatique (Liszt)
The Flight of the Bumble-bee
(Rimsky-Korsakov) on gramophone records

David reads 'Brother Johanniek's Silver Bell'
An old Breton legend retold by L. d'Arle Forward
'And they knelt down together to give thanks for a lovely miracle, and for all the love of God shown by Christ Jesus to men.'

5.15 Christmas Interlude
Heather Linson sings carols to her own guitar and lute accompaniment

5.25 Graham introduces a Christmas Day edition of Five-Twenty-Five
A magazine for everyone
Jim Pestridge meets Santa Ciaus and Uncle Holly
H. T. Kirby recalls old Christmas charities
Harry Engleman tangles up the Pops in a piano charade
Peggy Boyton speaks about the Pilgrim Fathers' first Christmas in America
F. R. Buckley remembers a sleigh ride
Geoffrey Jaggard recounts some Christmas customs
Arnold Peters says 'What Happens Now?' in Geoffrey Morgan's serial story
Produced by Graham Gauld

Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region

Excerpts from a long-playing record album featuring songs from their musical plays
BRIGADOON '; ' PAINT YOUR WAGON'
• My FAIR LADY' and the film 'GIGI ' and starring
Robert Merrill , Jane Powell
Jan Peerce. Phil Harris with the R.C.A. Victor
Symphony Orchestra and Chorale under the direction of Johnny Green
The programme includes introductions specially recorded in New York by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Produced by Derek Chinnery

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(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Rudolf Schwarz

Appeal on behalf of the British Wireless for the Blind Fund
(Registered in accordance with the National Assistance Act
1948) by Lord Birkett
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
Each year the British Wireless for the Blind Fund makes only one appeal-on Christmas night. Each year more than 5,000 blind men and women depend for their wireless sets on the response to this appeal. A set costs £10, and the Fund once again relies on the generosity of listeners to help ensure that no blind person is denied the comfort and companionship that wireless can bring into a darkened life.

Written by Dorothy Worsley
Told by Deryck Guyler
with Peter Cavanagh, Jack Handley, Jack Hylton, Bobby Howes, Jack Payne, Jack Train, Fred Yule, John Snagge, Tollefsen, Dr. the Rt. Hon. Charles Hill, M.P. and the recorded voices of Tommy Handley, Dorothy Summers, Horace Percival, Kay Cavendish, Paula Green, Jean Alliston, Ronald Frankau, Hugh Morton, Joan Harben, Diana Morrison, Dino Galvani, Jean Capra and Sir William Haley
Edited and produced by Bill Worsley

with records of Yves Montand , Edith Piaf
Erich Kunz , Roberto Murolo
The Trio Kitara

A short story by Elizabeth Taylor
Read by Derek Hart

followed by late weather forecast for land areas

played by Raymond Cohen (violin)
Anthya Rael (piano)