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t Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Foundations: JOHN BAKER WHITE describes his childhood and upbringing
Focus on Hospitals: from a Woman's Hour series
Community Living: JEANNE HEAL visits a girls' boarding-school
Entertaining before 1930: described by JOHN BETJEMAN

Contributors

Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson
Unknown:
John Baker
Unknown:
John Betjeman

The first part of the Parish Communion for the Third Sunday in Advent from
St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
Conducted by the Vicar CANON R. F. CARTWRIGHT
Preacher,
THE RT. REV. OLIVER TOMKINS Bishop of Bristol
On Jordan's Bank (E.H.9)
The Epistle: 1 Corinthians 4, vv. 1-5
Gradual: Hark, the glad sound
(EH. 6)
The Gospel: St. Matthew 11, vv. 2-10
Offertory: Spread, 0 spread, thou mighty word <E.H. 552)
Organist, Garth Benson

Contributors

Unknown:
Canon R. F. Cartwright
Unknown:
Rev. Oliver Tomkins
Organist:
Garth Benson

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Kodaly at Eighty
A birthday tribute by PERCY YOUNG
Wagner's ' Götterdämmerung' by WILLIAM MANN
Musical Profile:
The Tatrai String Quartet by MIKI SEKERS
Some books about music for Christmas reviewed by JOHN WARRACK

Contributors

Edited By:
Anna Instone
Introduced By:
Julian Herbage
Unknown:
Percy Young
Unknown:
William Mann
Unknown:
Miki Sekers
Reviewed By:
John Warrack

A request programme of gramophone records
Zoltan Kodaly born December 16, 1882
Summer Night
BUDAPEST PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER
Motet: Jesus and the Traders
ST. THOMAS'S CHOIR, LEIPZIG Conducted by GÜNTHER RAMIN
Dances from Galanta PHILHARMONIA HUNGARICA
Conducted by ANTAL Dorati

Contributors

Unknown:
Zoltan Kodaly
Unknown:
Nther Ramin
Conducted By:
Antal Dorati

In case you're lonoly:
ELIZABETH BERESFORD with some ideas
Introducing:
AN ASSISTANT COMPTROLLER of the Patent Office
Money Matters:
EDWARD LEADER answers a mixed bag of questions t Introduced by ROBIN HOLMES

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Beresford
Introduced By:
Robin Holmes

by HANS BAUMANN translated by Isabel and Florence McHugh adapted for radio in four parts by FELix FELTON
4: Beyond the Reefs
Their wish had come true, and Aires and Tinoco were with Tristao the Pilot, in the ' Barque of the Brothers ' at the mouth of the Bitter River t Produced by DAVID DAVIS

Contributors

Unknown:
Hans Baumann
Unknown:
Florence McHugh
Unknown:
Felix Felton
Produced By:
David Davis
Manuel:
John Slater
Aires:
David Spenser
Tinoco:
Jeremy Spenser
Luis:
Norman Shelley
Pedro }:
Josefina Ray
Paolo:
Josefina Ray
Da Costa:
Derek Blomfield
Pedro Falcom:
Felix Felton

from St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Conducted by the Vicar
THE REV. AUSTEN WILLIAMS
Hymns (from the BBC Hymn
Book): Hark, the glad sound (490); Come, thou long-expected Jesus (30); Thy kingdom come, 0 God (27)
Psalm 82
Lesson: St. Mark 1, vv. 1-14
Organist, John Churchill

Contributors

Organist:
John Churchill

Appeal on behalf of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Fund by THE REV. AUSTEN WILLIAMS
Contributions (preferably by crossed postal order or cheque) will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to the Vicar, [address removed]
Every year the Vicar of St. Martin's makes this special Christmas Appeal. It is an appeal by, but not for, St. Martin's, for the gifts received are distributed throughout the British Isles to those who are in need through illness or misfortune. Through this appeal thousands are enabled to share in the joy of Christmas who would not otherwise have done so.

This Island Now by G. M. Carstairs
Professor of Psychological Medicine in the University of Edinburgh
6: The Changing British Character
In his final lecture Professor Carstairs considers some new trends which will. he believes, have an increasing influence on personality development in our society during the rest of the twentieth century.
Repeated on Tuesday at 8.0 in the Third Programme
These lectures are being printed in ' The Listener '

Contributors

Unknown:
G. M. Carstairs

Donald Omand circus padre t THE REV. DR. DONALD OMAND ,
Vicar of Chideock, Dorset, talks to GEOFFREY HOWARD about his life as padre to circus folk all over the world
See page 15

Contributors

Unknown:
Donald Omand
Unknown:
Rev. Dr. Donald Omand
Unknown:
Geoffrey Howard

BBC Home Service Basic

About BBC Home Service

BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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