Paul Adam introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

Bobby Pagan at the BBC theatre organ

Band of the Grenadier Guards
Conducted by Major F. J. Harris
Director of Music

Muted Strings directed by Reg Pursglove
The Billy Mayerl Rhythm Ensemble

'The Face ' by Lennox Robinson
Read by Patricia Brent

Reginald King at the piano

A Christmas holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
A Card for Christmas
C. Gordon Glover helps you to choose your Christmas cards in a carefree way, with the help of the following artists :
Judith Furse , Wilfred Babbage
Dorothy Gordon , Noel Dryden
Betty Hardy , Wyndham Milligan
Patricia Hayes , Geoffrey Wincott
Ella Milne , Irmgard Spoliansky

(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by John Hopkins

A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes stories, and music
Today Julia Lang is with us again for another four weeks of storytelling, and as there will be no Listen with Mother ' broadcast on Christmas Day or Boxing Day it will be on Friday of this week that our under-fives will hear the story of the first Christmas. The week's programmes will seek to prepare the atmosphere for this central point of our Christmas broadcasts, and the Nativity story itself will be presented very simply, with only those details that can lie within the sympathy of our small listeners.
Out of the wealth of Christmas songs and rhymes, we could include only the smallest fraction in our programmes focused about the Christmas season, but there is one, beloved of children whenever they know it, which could not be omitted, and when, immediately after the Nativity story, we sing ' Away in a manger,' we shall think not only. as usual, of individual mothers and children at home. but of all mothers and children united for a little while in a very special way. Elizabeth A. Taylor

A daily programme for women at home
Introduced by Mary Hill
' I Married a Lion-tamer,' by Olga Kerr.
' Men in the Kitchen.' ' Don't Leave it All to Mother,' by Philip Harben : how the family can join in the Christmas cooking
' A Village Nativity Play,' by Leslie Ferguson
' Talking it Over with Marian Cutler ' : an attempt to help listeners find a solution to some of their personal problems
' Family Album': an original serial story by Antonia Ridge , told by the author

Fred Alexander and his Players with Wilfred Johns (baritone)

Pounds and People
6 — ' How Rich Are We? '
Hugo O'Hear and Hugh Jenkins d,is-cuss the real meaning of national wealth and what relation it bears to the standard of living

Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players

Script by Joan Carr-Jones
As a. result of the fire in the Fieldings' house last week, Isabel, Edward, and Tiggy were temporarily staying at Virginia Lodge. The Stuarts were in Mrs. Freeman's flat and Mrs. Freeman was in the dining-room. Dr. and Mrs. Dale were extremely harassed with all these people suddenly taking residence at V'rginia Lodge. Dr. Dale talked to Mr. Fulton about the watch he had given Gwen and realised that he had been unnecessarily upset about it. Isabel told Mrs. Dale she had reason to believe Edward was in love with someone else but she would not say who. Later Mrs. Dale saw Edward talking very earnestly to Gerda.

by Frank Craven
Adapted for broadcasting by Mollie Greenhalgh
Production by David H. Godfrey

(Continued)

at the BBC theatre organ

A slice of life presented for family listening by Peter Watson and Tony East
'Parade' puts its Christmas cards on the mantelpiece and lets you in on some of the preparations for the New Year
Up My Street
The first of a fortnightly series in which Richard Dimbleby at last gets his chance to pass on his choice in music and give his reasons for it
Something Wrong Somewhere
Hubert Phillips gets you guessing
You're Only Young Once
The everyday adventures of the Caldicott family
Script by Edward J. Mason
13—' Party Dresses '

John Ellison and Robert MacDermot are the Question-Masters
12-English Finals
County Grammar School for Boys,
Woking v. High School for Girls,
Manchester
Produced by Joan Clark

In the last programme of this series Boyd Neel , with records, answers your questions and plays some of your requests

A serial by Francis Dunbridige
8—Presenting Mr. Vandyke '
Produotion by Martyn C. Webster

starring Alfred Marks
Peter Yorke and his Concert Orchestra
Betty Paul
The Radio Revellers
Tony Fayne and David Evans
Harry Dawson
Produced by Gordon Crier

and his Pieces of Eight
Tito Burns and his Sextet

'Geordie' by David Walker
Reader, Tom Fleming
6 — 'The Leave-Taking'

Melody on Strings
Light music string ensemble directed by Max Jaffa with Desiree MacEwan (piano)