Donald Peers introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
Joseph Seal at the BBC theatre organ
Jack White and his Band
Light Orchestra
(Leader, William Mclnulty )
Conductor, David Curry
(Continued in next column)
' Poor. Darling! ' by T. A. Lowe
Read by Eric Phillips
and his Orchestra with Derrick Francis and Terry Devon
(Leader, Reginald Stead ) -
Conductor, John Hopkins
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
A programme for children under five
A daily programme for women at home
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe and including
Guest of the Week:
Dr. Maude Royden , c.H.
' I Like to Dance-the Polka':this week's invitation to the dance comes from Freddy Grisewood.
' Speaking Personally': Godfrey Winn shares with you the highlights of his week
' Spinning a Yarn': commander Ibbett's yarn this time concerns a parrot
(Continued in next column)
' Many Happy Returns': a mosaic of the happiest anniversaries In listeners' lives. Readers, Gladys Young and Olive Gregg
A programme of light music arranged and played by Jack Byfield and his Players with Fredric Bayco at the organ and Janet Howe (mezzo-soprano)
at the BBC theatre organ
Manchester C.W.S. Band
Conductor, Jack Atherton
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Joan Carr-Jones
The ballet music, arranged from themes by Franz Liszt , for the new Goldwyn-R.K.O. release ' Hans Christian Andersen '
Introduced by Franklin Engelmann
played by Geraldo and his Orchestra
Including
Songs with Strings
' Musical Memory '
The Tip Toppers and singers,
Jill Day and Bob Dale
(continued)
A musical tour of the city in which so many different nationalities live, and the story of how some of them celebrate Christmas
to meet Hermione Gingold
Anona Winn , Jerry Desmonde and Ralph Wightman and join them for half an hour of parlour games, designed to entertain you, and maybe to give you ideas for your own parties
Master of Ceremonies,
Michael Miles
Produced by Joan Clark
Some of the adventures of Mr. Samuel Pickwick and his friends related in the novel by Charles Dickens
Adapted for radio into five parts based on Noel Langley 's screenplay and the original novel, with scenes and music from the sound-track of the Langley-Minter picture
(Continued in next column)
Part 3
A discovery and a chase; clearing up all doubts of the Disinterestedness of Mr. Jingle's Character: an important proceeding on the part of Mr. Pickwick; some account of Eatanswill
Programme produced by Thurstan Holland
by Raymond Glendenning
with the BBC Variety Orchestra Produced by Trafford Whitelock
At Home for Christmas
Accompanied by Bertram Waller with the George Mitchell Glee Club and the Augmented Dance Orchestra Conducted by Stanley Black
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
A Christmas fantasy of the Atomic Age
Written for radio by Charles Parker
Music composed and conducted by John Hotchkis
Characters in order of speaking:
Produced by Raymond Raikes
followed by
A thriller by John Dickson Carr
says
4 Can I Come In?' * to some of the people of Drury Lane, London
Arranged by Gordon Cruickshank
Presented by David Thomson
Told by Wynford Vaughan Thomas
' The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree ' by Hans Andersen
from the Royal Albert Hall , London sung by the massed voices of the Royal Choral Society
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent with Heddle Nash (tenor) Arnold Greir (organ)
(s)
for a quiet moment on Christmas Eve played by the Strings of the Leighton Lucas Orchestra Conductor, Leighton Lucas with Leon Goossens , Nina Milkina
Ian Gordon-Inglis
David Lloyd , Josephine Lee and the BBC Singers
Conducted by Frank Wade
Stanley Black at the piano with a section of the Dance Orchestra
A welcome to Christmas Day
sung by Father Egbert Cole , O.P., and the community of the Dominican Priory of St. Thomas,
Hawkesyard, Rugeley, Staffs.
The action of the Mass described by Father Columba Ryan , o.p.
Meditation at the Communion by Father Ian Hislop , o.p.
Mass No. 1 (Dominican Gradual)
Offertory Motet: Come to me beloved, ba.be of Bethlehem (W.H. 176)
Recessional: Adeste Fideles
Cantor, Father Antoninus Finili , o.r.
