A talk by David Scott Blackhall
Forecast for land areas
An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing
A programme of favourite orchestral music on gramophone records
A talk by David Scott Blackball
Forecast for land areas
by Peter Greave
Understanding the English isn't easy for the stranger. So Peter Greave found when he fell foul of three ladies in a railway compartment soon after his arrival from India.
Sonata in A, Op. 47 (Kreutzer) played by Hugh Bean (violin)
David Parkhouse (piano)
SHEILA RICHARDSON describes her experiences as a Hunt Ball Organiser, and the trials and tribulations of catering for a ball held at a castle in Southern Ireland.
Feast of St. Stephen
In the bleak mid-winter (BBC H.B.
51)
New Every Morning, page 99
Carol: He smiles within his cradle
Acts 7, vv. 54-60
The Son of God goes forth to war
(BBC H.B. 235)
with Reginald Pursglove and the Albany Strings
Waltz-Fantasy (Glinka): Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Anatole Fistoulari
Italian Capriccio (Tchaikovsky):
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antal Dorati
Prelude. Katva Kabanova (Janacek):
Pro Arte Orchestra, conducted by Charles Mackerras
Dance (The Age of Gold) (Shostakovich): London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jean Martinon some recent gramophone records
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
with Wallas Eaton
Toni Eden
The Polka Dots
BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Julien Gaillard )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Produced by Charles Chilton
looks back upon the many ways in which radio has celebrated the festival of ' The Manger and the Mistletoe'
1922-1959
Written and compiled by Leslie Baily
The recorded voices of: King George V King George VI Queen Elizabeth II Robert Donat, Gracie Fields
Stanley Holloway, Gillie Potter
John Henry and Blossom
Vivienne Chatterton
Michael Standing, Laurence Gilliam
Stanford Robinson , John Watt
Stanley Maxted , Edward Ward
Godfrey Talbot , Wilfrid Thomas
Mr. Walton Handy
Drummer H. F. Wilson
Tommy Handley in ' Itma ' with Joan Harben
Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch in 'BAND WAGGON '
The Kentucky Minstrels
Choir of King's College Chapel,
Cambridge
The Bach Choir
London Symphony Orchestra
The Savoy Orpheans
Soldiers at Field-Marshal
Montgomery's H.Q. in France
The bells of London and Bethlehem and Geoffrey Lewis , Olive Gregg Dudley Rolph , John Cazabon
The pages turned by Freddy Grisewood
Production by Vernon Harris
by Derek Walker
Plays produced by David H. Godfrey
(
For Children of Most Ages
Write Me a Letter
The Children's Hour
Correspondence Column of the Air edited and introduced by Adrian Thomas
Shorter Boxing Day edition
5.15 For Listeners of All Ages
(up to 100 and over)
I Leonard Henry as ' Simple Simon ' in ' Seaman Simon '
An original radio pantomime by Philip Bentinck , and Courtiers, villagers. sweeper-uppers, lookers-on, and etceteras
The Arden Singers
(Conductor, William Bennett )
Music directed by Albert Webb
Produced by Graham Gauld
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region
See foot of page
Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in 'THE LINDEN TREE ' by J. B. Priestley adapted for broadcasting by Peter Watts
Cellist, Muriel Taylor
Produced by Peter Watts
See page 10
followed by late weather forecast for land areas
Julius Isserlis (piano)
