Bright and cheery music on gramophone records
Directed by Michael Spivakovsky
The Sunday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Joan Yorke introducing
Gordon Gow , reviewing some current films
Pamela Frankau and Wyn Griffith discussing the issues behind some personal problems
A poulterer talking about your Christmas turkey
Kathleen Austin describing a Victorian washday
Francesca French recalling a Christmas in the Gobi desert
The final instalment from ' A Kid for Two Farthings,' by Wolf Mankowitz. Abridged by Pegeen Mair. Read by David Kossoff
A journey through Britain with a recording machine.
Leslie Baily goes underground at Crown Farm Colliery, Mansfield, and sees how new miners are made.
Introducing Herbert Cusworth, Area Labour Officer; Charles Elliott, Joe Mapiletoft, and Josh Greenhough, instructors; Charles Halford and Barry Hamilton, miners; and young and adult trainees; with a postscript from John Rice, a young graduate miner at Maltby.
(The recorded broadcast of October 29)
You are invited to listen to folk songs and music still sung and played in the British Isles Maud Karpeles and Peter Ken nedy introduce traditional carols they heard in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire
Seamus Ennis tells of the popular beliefs surrounding the Christ Child Lullaby
Singer, Frances Kitching
The Players:
Eugene Pini (violin) Carlos Valdez (cello)
Henry Krein (accordion)
George Crozier (flute)
Freddie Phillips (guitar)
Jimmy Verity (viola)
Programme introduced by Spike Hughes
Edited by Marie Slocombe
Produced by Harold Rogers
with Wilfred Pickles
From the ' Thunderbird ' Service Club of the 20th Fighter-Bomber Wing
United States Air Force somewhere in Essex
There was no room for them in the Inn (St. Luke 2, v. 7)
Getting Ready For Christmas
From Leominster Priory, Herefordshire. Conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. S. M. F. Woodhouse
In London, Jean Metcalfe In Hamburg. Dennis Scuse
with Alan Breeze and Doreen Stephens Script by Clem Bernard Produced by Glyn Jones
A weekly programme of records of British dance bands
on gramophone records
A happy history of everyman's entertainment with Paul Boyle Sir Alan Herbert
Al Read , R. H. Wood and Howard Marion-Crawford
Programme written by Gale Pedrick and produced by Thurstan Holland
A fantasy for broadcasting by Jon Farrell
Adapted from the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Production by Martyn C. Webster Incidental music by James Bernard
The Characters: The Story Teller
The Small Boy
The Uncle
The Little Prince
The Rose
The King
The Conceited Man
The Tippler
The Business Man
The Flower
The Snake
The Fox
The Lamplighter
The Old Man
The Switchman
The Players:
Monica Grey , Elizabeth London
Hester Paton Brown. Sulwen Morgan
Marjorie Westbury , Mary Williams
Mary Wimbush , Gabrielle Blunt
John Cazabon , Hamilton Dyce Deryck Guyler , Hugh Manning
Cyril Shaps , and Richard Waring
6— ' Christmas Shopping
A. summary of events of the past week
Tom Jenkins and the Palm Court Orchestra with Owen Brannigan
Hymn-singing from Exeter Cathedral, led by members of Exeter Diocesan Choral Association
Hymns introduced by the Ven. W. A. E. Westall,
Archdeacon of Exeter
0 come, 0 come Emmanuel (Tune,
Emmanuel)
Hark the glad sound (Tune, Bristol) On Jordan's bank (Tune, Winchester) Carol: People, look East!
Wake, 0 wake (Tune, Sleepers wake) Great God. what 'do I see and hear
(Tune. Luther)
Lo' He comes with clouds descending
(Tune, Helmsley)
Come. thou long expected Jesus
(Tune, Cross of Jesus)
Conductor, Reginald Moore
Organist, Dr. Henry Ley
with Joan Sims and Leslie Mitchell
Tonight's Musical Highlights:
Vanessa Lee
Tony Mercer
The George Mitchell
Town Criers
Stanley Black, his piano and his Concert Orchestra
On Top of her Town this week:
Ethel Revnell and her hometown London
Programme based on an idea by Terry-Thomas
Script edited by Jimmy Grafton
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
in reflections at the piano with Marie Korchinska (harp)
'Christian hymns, their music, and their meaning
While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Tune, Winchester Old)
Away in a manger, no crib for a bed
(Tune. Normandy)
Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir (Tune, Nativity)
Of the Father's love begotten (Tune.
Divinum Mysterium)
Love came down at Christmas (Tune.
Love Incarnate)
Still the night, holy the might (Tune.
Stille Nacht)
A programme of records
Introduced by Philip Slessor
A programme of melody played by Sandy M'acpherson at the BBC theatre organ
