Larry Macarl 's Music with Elsie Monks at the organ and Rosa
Johnny Denis and his Ranchers with Fred Yule , Graham Bailey and the Cactus Kids
Script by David Climie Produced by Glym Jones
at the piano
Gordon Parfitt
Meryl Waite , Vivian Joseph
The Strings In Harmony
The Silver Chords Choir
Musical arrangements and production by Mai Jones
The combined bands of the Household Cavalry
Band of The Life Guards
(Director of Music, Major A. Lemoine )
Band of the Royal Horse Guards
(The Blues)
(Director of Music,
Captain David MeBain )
Introduced by Michael Brooke
Produced by Harry Mortimer
Wilfred Pickles in 'Have a Go!' visits an old folks' Christmas party in Liverpool
Musical illustrations by Violet Carson
Presented by Barney Colehan
From London, the tunes you have asked us to play. From Germany, the tunes that make them think of you
In London, Jean Metcalfe .
In Hamburg,
Christopher Howland
From St. Mary's, Warwick. Conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. Joseph McCulloch
'It is a small world.' When people live in a world too small to contain themselvet and everybody else, all forms of snobbery, jealousy, resentment, and intolerance are the result. The smaller our world, the less room for love. It is fear, a lack of true imagination, which makes the world' we actually live in shrink, sometimes to a size no bigger than ourselves. The sinner who is a saint knows that there is no room in the real world for anything but love, even though in the world of fear love has to be born in a cattle-trough and die on a scaffold. So he aims to live in as large a world as possible, in the world of the Communion of Saints and the Forgiveness of Sins, the world of the imagination of Jesus. That is why it is characteristic of the genuine Christian that every littleness of soul becomes in time foreign to his nature, not merely at Christmas but all the year round.
Ted Ray introduces a programme for Services everywhere
Guests:
Kathleen Harrison
Robert Moreton
Spotlight on Sport
Introducing sporting celebrities and the Forces try to stump
Leslie Welch
The Memory Man
' Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Petula Clark brings greetings and sings the most requested song
Hit Tunes from Home with the Stargazers
The George Mitchell Choir and George Crow and his
Blue Mariners Dance Orchestra
You've Asked For It
Bringing personalities, artists, and sounds requested by Servicemen overseas that remind them of home
Script by Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont and Framk Hooper
with Kay Hammond , Joyce Grenfell . Gliadys Young , Charmian Innes John Clements , Gilfbert Harding
In the chair, Roy Plomley
Production by Pat Dixon
with Alan Breeze, Doreen Stephens and Clem Bernard
with Robert Moreton
Hattie Jacques
Ronald Chesney
Peter Madden and a guest artist
The Tanner Sisters
The Hedley Ward , Trio
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Robert Busby
Script by Eric Sykes and Sid Colin
Produced by Charles Chilton
in Your Song Parade ' invites you to join the family circle with Guy Daines and his Orchestra and the Song Paraders
Producer, Eric Arden
A series of domestic comedies written by Bebe Daniels , Bob Block and Bill Harding
8 — ' Under the Tree '
Other parts played by David Endera and Ian Sadler
The Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Stanley Black
Incidental music by Arthur Wilkinson
Production by Tom Ronald
with Isabel Dean
A serial in eight episodes by Lester Powell
8—'The Last Turn '
Production by Martym C. Webster
with a BBC mobile recording unit to interview ten men aboard ships moored in the Thames, in King's Reach, and to invite them to choose their favourite music
Produced by John Shuter
(Continued)
with Wallas Eaton The Keynotes
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Robert Busby
Script by Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Produced by Charles Maxwell
London v. Wales: Round 1
Bight contests between a resident team in London and a challenging team in Wales
(Continued in next column)
London:
Denis Brogan
Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master,
Lionel Hale Wales:
Wyn Griffith
T. I. Ellis
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
Tom Jenkins and the Palm Court Orchestra with Billy Neely (boy-soprano)
A summary of events of the past week
on holiday sport
with Eric Portman
Billy Ternent and his Orchestra
Script by Frankie Howerd and Eric Sykes
Presented by Bryan Sears
with Peter Yorke and his Concert Orchestra
At the piano:
Ernest Ponticelli
by Handel
Elizabeth Evans (soprano)
Eiddiwen Griffiths (cfontralto)
Charles Clements (organ)
Skewen Choral Society
Conductor, Frank Williams
Introduced by Glyn Parry Jones
with Derek Roy
Anne Ziegler and Webater Booth
Peter Cavanagh
Tollefsen
Max Wall
The Five SkyKners
Bill Kerr
Billy Ternent and hiis Orchestra
Produced by Bryan Sears
at two pianos
in King's College Chapel,
Cambridge upon Christmas Eve
Processional Hymn: Once In royal
David's city (19th century)
Invitatory: Recitative and Chorale from the Christmas Oratorio (Bach)
First Lesson: Genesis 3. vv. 8-15.
Reader: A chorister
Carol: The noble stem of Jesse (trad.
German)
Third Lesson: Isaiah 9. vv. 2. 6. ami 7
Reader: The organist
Carol: In dulci jubilo (14th century.
German)
Fifth Lesson: St. Luke 1, w. 26-33 and 38. Reader: The Vice-Provost
Carol: A Virgin most pure (trad.
English)
Hymn: While shepherds watched
(Este's Psalter, 1592)
Eighth Lesson: St. Matthew 2, vv.
1-11. Reader: A representative of the sister-college at Eton
Carol: The Infant King (Old Basque) Ninth Lesson: St. John 1, w. 1-14.
Reader, The Provost
Recessional Hymn.: Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn)
Director of Music. Boris Ord
Garth Benson (organ)
(A shortened version of this afternoon's broadcast in the Home Service)
A panorama of seasonal thoughts presented by Owen Walters and his Orchestra
Mary Denise (soprano)
Arthur Richards (baritone) and the George Mitchell Choir
A welcome to Christmas Day
from the Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St. Joseph, Carlisle
Meditation led by Monsignor Richard L. Smith
Choirmaster, Michael Donnelly
Organist, Michael Casey
