Friday's 'Ten to Eight'
. and Programme News
A Christian angle on the news
Speaker, HUGH KAY
and Programme News
from the BBC Sound Archives
Lord Ponsonby
1871-1946
Introduced by Leslie PEROWNE
New Every Morning, page 96
Hark, the glad sound, the Saviour comes (BBC H.B. 490)
Psalm 67
Malachi 3, v. 13, to 4, v. 6
Come, thou long-expected
Jesus (BBC H.B. 30)
A Saturday supplement to Woman's Hour
Introduced by MARJORIE ANDERSON
Meet Thora Hird : she talks to OLIVE Shapley about her life and work in show business
Men and Marriage: sightings from within and without, introduced by Jim BLACK
'and all man's folly ... Robert Rietty remembers a wartime Christmas in the Italian hills
Where there's smoke ... : STEVE RACE takes a friendly look at fire in poetry, prose, and proverb
A weekly survey of the world of motoring
Topical news and the latest Road Conditions
Edited and introduced by BILL HARTLEY
Listen at leisure to selected star items from the week's editions of radio's famous breakfast-time magazine
Introduced by JACK DE MANIO
by Kay McManus
[Starring] June Tobin
Once I was a child. I was without understanding. The world glowed with light
Catharine looks back on the happiness and the conflicts that led her to maturity and understanding.
in King's College Chapel, Cambridge upon Christmas Eve
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A shortened recording: Christmas Daw at 7.1.5 p.m. followed by an interlude
with Ida Haendel
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Alan Loveday Conducted by Charles Groves
and Programme News
on Christmas Eve
Willy Boskowsky conducts the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra
Leader. Joseph Segal
Recording of a public concert given intheCityHall.Newcastle,on November 2 iNillu Boskowsky conducts a concert given in the Vienna Music Club: Boxing Day ot 1.30 p.m. (Music)
or When the Wolves were Running
A Fantasy by John Masefield, freely dramatised for radio by John Keir Cross
O Greatness, hear, O Brightness, hark,
Leave us not little, nor yet Dark
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The Box of Delights
John Masefield's fantasy, The Box of Delights, seems to me a work of supreme enchantment. Those who think of the Poet Laureate, in his prose, as a writer mainly of sea or adventure stories, will find in it a quite remarkably different aspect of his wonderful imagination.
It was written in 1935, and is the kind of story that, once heard, is everlastingly haunting. Some twenty years ago I wrote a serial version of it, and still, to this day, I am asked when it might be repeated. Recently, writing a script for The Archers, I made a passing reference to this unusual tale; and from all over the world came letters from its secret addicts who wanted to know if it was still in print - as in fact it is.
It is indeed something quite special - a work not only for young folk but for readers and listeners of all ages: full of charm and villainy, of magic black and magic white, of tremendous fun, of heroism, of tenderness, of hosts of engaging characters - above all, of the true poetic spirit of Christmas...
And so here it is, compressed to an hour and a half. Alas, much has had to be omitted - it broke my heart in the writing! But I hope that this new version will still reflect something of the essence of this entrancing ' Christmas Eve's Dream.'
(John Keir Cross)
and Weather forecast
Brian REDHEAD discusses some topical matters and some less topical with JOAN SEDDON journalist
SIR HARRY Pilkington
Chairman, Pilkington Brothers
T. E. CHESTER
Professor of Social Administration. University of Manchester
PETER WALLFISCH (piano) CZECH NONET
Vaclav Zilka (flute)
Vaclav Vndicka (Oboe) Oldrich Pergl I clarinet) Jaroslav Rezac < bassoon) Arnost Charvat i horn Ekil Leichner iviolin) Wilem Kostecka (viola) Rudolf Lojda (cello)
Oldrich Uher (double-bass)
from St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Edinburgh
Celebrant and preacher,
THE MOST Rev GORDON J. GRAY Roman Catholic Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh
Action of the Mass described by FR. JOHN DALRYMPLE
Music by ST. Mary's Cathedral Choir Choirmaster, Arthur Oldham accompanied by the EDINBURGH QUARTET and GEORGE GWILT (flute)
HEATHER Rutherford (flute)
MICHAEL LESTER CRIBB (harpsichord)
Led by Miles BASTER
Adeste fideles (trad.)
Proper of Mass (Oldham)
Messe de minuit (Charyenticr)
Quern vidistis, pastores? (Oldham) 0 little one sweet (Burh)
In dulci iubilo (Buxtehtule)
Organist. Fr. Alexander Bremner
