Magazine edition
Introduced by JOHN GREENSLADE

Speaker,
THE Rev. JAMES EDWARDS

and Programme News

Radio's breakfast-time look at life around the country and across the world
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO

Among the Gifts of Christmas ...
The Rev. H. A. Williams , Dean of Trinity College, Cambridge, speaks on 'Christ as the Light of the World'

and Programme News

by ALISTAIR COOKE
Sunday's broadcast

New Every Morning, page 96
Lord of our life, and God of our salvation (BBC H.B. 179)
Psalm 42
Isaiah 6, vv. 1-10
Bright the vision that delighted
(BBC H.B. 269)

Written by Hilde-Maria Kraus
Intermediate German series

Lesson 12: Revision
Written by Raymond Escoffey
A radio-vision programme

by WILLIAM APPLEBY
All the songs in today's programme have been requested by schools

The Island of Prospero
† DEREK BOWSKILLpresents the last programme of the term
Today's broadcast develops a class improvisation based on the opening scene of Shakespeare's The Tempest.

The News and Voices and Topics in and behind the headlines
Introduced by WILLIAM DAVIS Financial Editor of The Guardian

Roy Plomley's castaways are rowers John Ridgway & Chay Blyth. Show more

Friday's broadcast (Light)

for children under five
Today's story: ' Tony's busy day ' by Olive Jeffrey

by Albert Chatterley

including the poem
' Writ on the Eve of my 32nd Birthday ' by Gregory Corso Speak series

for the nine-to-eleven-year-olds by GLYN HARRIS

Speaking and Writing
A series of ten programmes designed to help and encourage those who wish to express themselves more effectively or recapture old skills in the spoken and the written word.
10: Listeners' Forum
Written and introduced by GILBERT PHELPS
Produced by Peggy Bacon

Home at Seven by R. C. Sherriff with Patrick Barr
Isabel Dean , James Thomason Had David Preston lost his memory during the twenty-four hours that he was missing?
Produced by MARTYN C. WEBSTER
Saturday's broadcast

A magazine of interest to all, with older listeners specially in mind, including:
With Posterity in Mind:
Miss COMPTON COLLIER , now an active seventy-seven, talks to DEREK PARKER about her fifty years as a society photographer
I Looking at Books: URSULA
BLOOM suggests some new books about, or in search of, arfimals
Can You Tell Me?: a fortnightly series answering listeners' queries
You asked us to play record requests
Introduced by KEN SYKORA

The Land of Green Ginger by Noel Langley adapted as a six-part serial reading by THEA HOLME
PART 2: Prince Abu AH, son and heir of the Emperor Aladdin, sets out to seek the hand of Silver Bud. the jeweller's beautiful daughter, and to redeem from its aimless wanderings through space the Land of Green Ginger.
Produced by LORRAINE DAVIES

and Programme News

by Gwen Cherrell adapted from her television play with Barbara Bolton , Maria Charles Sheila Grant , and June Tobin
' Do you know what that is? The Madam? its the lie that people believe because they want to believe it. All the lies they have to believe, because without them they can'go on living....'
Produced by BETTY Davies
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Music for the Evening by Chopin, Franck, and Faure gramophone records

Part 1
The News

on behalf of the CONSERVATIVE AND
UNIONIST PARTY

Part 2
Background to the News
People in the News followed by 'LISTENING POST
Letters from today's postbag introduced by WALTER JAMES