Archie Filer
The Silver Chords Choir
The Strings in Harmony Introduced by John Darran
Musical arrangements and production by Mai Jones
Leslie A. Hutchinson with a piano
John Ellison and Robert MacDermot are the question-masters
13-Semi-Finals (i)
High School,
High Wycombe (Girls) v.
High School for Girls,
Middlesbrough
Wilfred Pickles in Have a Go! visits Christmas Common and Watlington, Oxfordshire.
from Purley Congregational Church, Surrey; conducted by the Rev. Howard Stanley , Secretary of the Congregational Union
Recipe for a Merry Christmas
3—' Putting Christ into Christmas'
Organist. Richard Aldridge
Reader, the Rev. John Weller
Some news of current programmes
London-Cologne-Cyprus-
Malta-Nairobi
For Service men and women stationed abroad and their families at home
Presented from London by Jean Metcalfe
From Cologne by Dennis Scuse From Cyprus by Kay Donnelly
From Malta by Bill Duxbury
From Nairobi by Wendy Barnes
Laugh with the Cotton Boys listen to Alan Breeze and Kathie Kay with The Bandits and Mr. Wakey-Wakey (Himself)
Script by Eddie Gurney and Arthur Pastor
Production by Glyn Jones
[Starring] Peter Brough and Archie Andrews
with Dick Emery, Pearl Carr, Ronald Chesney
Guest Star, Max Bygraves
with Kitty Bluett
Kenneth Connor
Laidman Browne , Pat Coombs
Introduced by Peter Haigh and including
A Christmas Song from Judy Garland
Pocket Edition
Peter Sellers . Terry-Thomas Peggy Mount , Shirley Eaton and Dennis Price in ' The Naked Truth '
Adaptation by Roy Bradford
Record Star-Film Star
Harry Secombe sings in ' Davy'
An Extract from
Jack Buchanan 's last film
' The Diary of Major Thompson '
Some Songs from
Walt Disney's real-life adventure
' Perri '
-the story of a squirrel
Around the British Studios with Peter Noble
New Musical
Jimmy Bowmen sings ' Cross Over ' from Jamboree'
(Continued in next column)
Sounds Familliar
A short quiz to test your know-how of current and not-so-current movies
Presented by Desmond Carrington and Spencer Hale
The Hollywood Touch
A report from Donovan Pedelty
Programme devised and produced by Trafford Whitelock
Sixty minutes of music and song with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
(Leader, William Armon)
Conductor, Vilem Tausky
June Bronhill (soprano), Kevin Scott (tenor) and Monia Liter (piano).
Introduced by Roy Williams.
by P. C . Wren
Freely adapted from the novel as a serial in ten episodes by Lester Powell
4 —' War in the Desert' and Sergeant Major Lejaune
Richard Williams
Produced by Martyn C. Webster
[Starring] Bernard Braden and Dick Bentley
with Eleanor Summerfield
The Singer: Lorrae Desmond
'Nearly Everybody Else' Bernard Cribbins
Music written and arranged by Bob Sharples
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet
Script written by David Climie and Pat Dunlop
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont
Danny Levan introduces
The Top Twenty played by Malcolm Lockyer and his Music
Produced by John Hooper
A song-a-minute sequence of popular melodies old and new sung by Benny Lee , Julie Dawn
Franklyn Boyd , Jean Campbell
The Meritones with accompaniments by The Steve Race Four and Harold Smart
Compiled and produced by Johnnie Stewart
In Thirty Minutes
(The Radio Digest Show) with Benny Lee
David Nettheim , Marie Benson
Announcer, Ronald Fletcher
Nat Temple and his Orchestra Music arranged by Ken Thorne
Script by Michael Bentine and David Nettheim
Production by Pat Dixon
introducing old ones. new ones loved ones, neglected ones by Semprini at the piano featuring his own arrangements for piano and orchestra
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Harry Rabinowitz
Produced by Jimmy Grant
A personal request programme
Community hymn-singing by the children of Spurgeon's Homes, Birchington, Kent
Hymns introduced by Derek McCulloch. O.B.E. (Uncle Mac)
Accompanist. Harold P. Millstead
Conductor, George Vesey
Once In Royal David's City (Tune,
Irby)
0 little town of Bethlehem (Tune,
Christmas Carol)
Rocking Carol (Tune, Rocking)
Away in a manger (Tune, Cradle
Song)
In the bleak mid-winter (Tune, Cranham)
I saw three ships (Tune, traditional) Thou didst leave thy throne (Tune,
Margaret)
Hark the herald-angels sing (Tune,
Mendelssohn)
A series of horse laughs
13—' Bubbles '
Script by Eddie Maguire
Produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston
The winter is spent by flat-racing stables in building up their horses and anxiously watching the development of promising two-year-olds in readiness for the season's classics. They are also, of course, carefully watching the progress of those mares, like Soapy, who are in foal, as it is with them that all long-term hopes for the future must rest ...
A panel game In which members of the public and invited personalities put questions to a team Of distinguished experts
The great minds are:
Jimmy Edwards Arthur English
David Tomlinson
Jimmy Wheeler
In the chair, Peter Haigh
From an idea by Jimmy Edwards
Production by Jacques Brown
at the piano with Kenneth Essex (viola)
In a programme of popular melodies
Some of the best-selling popular records and current hits of today
Produced by Denys Jones
at the piano in The Night and the Music with Isaacs Ike
Christian words and music
