Conducted by David Aspinall
Wilfrid Pickering (Baritone)
(North Regional Programme)
By W. H. SQUIRE
By CHRISTOPHER STONE
Processional Hymn, Once in Royal David's City (Nineteenth Century)
The Bidding Prayer
Invitatory Carol, O Little Town of Bethlehem (Twentieth Century) (Walford Davies, Words by Bishop Phillips Brooks )
First Lesson, Gen. iii, 8-15
Carols, Up! good Christian folk (Cowboy Carol Book)
I saw three ships (English Carol Book)
Second Lesson, Gen. xxii, 15-18
Carol, The Holly and the Ivy (Traditional French, arr. by Walford Davies)
Third Lesson, Isaiah ix, 2, 6, 7
Carol, God rest you merry, gentlemen (Traditional English)
Fourth Lesson, Micah v, 2, 3, 4
Fifth Lesson, Luke i, 26-33 and 38 Carol, Gabriel's Message (University Carol Book)
Sixth Lesson, Matthew i, 18-23
Carol, While shepherds watched (Este's Psalter, 1592. Words, Seventeenth Century)
Seventh Lesson, St. Luke ii, 8-16
Carols, Shepherds in the field abiding (Cowboy Carol Book)
Sweet Baby, Sleep (Oxford Book of Carols)
Eighth Lesson, St. Matthew ii, 1-11
Carol, The Three Kings (Cornelius, arr. Ivor Atkins)
Ninth Lesson, St. John i, 1-14 Reader, THE PROVOST
Carol, O come, all ye faithful (Eighteenth Century)
Collect for Christmas Day
The Blessing
Recessional Hymn, Hark! the herald Angels sing
Relayed from King's College, Cambridge
(A copy of the Order of Service giving the carols and prayers in full can be obtained from [address removed] at a cost of one shilling, post free)
By G. D. CUNNINGHAM
Relayed from The Town Hall, Birmingham
'Christmas in Bethlehem', by The Rt. Reverend The Bishop in Jerusalem, O.B.E., D.D.
(From Edinburgh)
(Leader, JEAN POUGNET )
Conductor, HERBERT MENGES
Pastoral Poetry. The ' Idylls' of Theocritus
Read by ROBERT FARQUHAHSON
By ADILA FACHIRI
The Story of the First Christmus
Told in relays from LONDON, NEW YORK,
WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL. and THE CHURCH OF
THE NATIVITY at BETHLEHEM
Arranged in co-operation with the National Broadcasting Company of America, and broadcast to listeners in this country and throughout the world
Relayed from Winchester Cathedral
An Act of Praise
The Magnificat ; Collect and prayer Two Carols :
In Dulei Jubilo (R. L. Pearsall )
When the Crimson Sun had set (OH
French)
Address by the LORD BISHOP OF WINCHESTER Hymn, Hark ! the herald Angels sing
(Ancient and Modern, No. 60; English Hymnal, No. 24)
Blessing
Conductor, JULIUS HARRISON
(Solo Violin, REGINALD WHITEHOUSE ) ROBERT EASTON (Bass) ORCHESTRA. AUDIENCE and THE HAKTIXGS CHORAL
UNION (Chorus Muster, J. READ BROWN )
Carols : It came upon the midnight clear; Nowell
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM