@ from page 41 of ' New Every Morning
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie Conductor, Guy Warrack
A Forgotten Festival Recalled at The Ship Inn, Mousehole
Tom Bawcock was a legendary character who lived at Mousehole, the tiny fishing-village near Pen-lance, in Cornwall. One year on the day before Christmas Eve, Tom went to sea alone and made a fabulous catch. This was made the occasion of a feast and the subject of a song. The celebration has now died out but Mousehole remains a simple fishing-village, and today you will hear stories of the fishing of yesterday and today from—
John Harry Sid Tender
Introduced by Bernard Fishwick with The Mousehole Singers
The programme produced by Pat Beech
(A recording of the broadcast in the West of England programme on Friday)
A Pianoforte Recital by Michael Mullinar
(From Midland)
Popular dance music and songs on gramophone records
with Renee Barr (soprano)
Selection, (Soloist, ERIC SHRIMPTON ) (Soloist, PETER VALERIO> ) (Soloist, CHARLES EVANS> ) (Soloist, ROBERT KEYS> )
at the Organ of the Granada, Welling Christmas Favourites Old and New
with Tessa Deane
Quartet in D minor, Op. 34
1 Allegro. 2 Alia polka: Allegretto scherzando. 3 Adagio. 4 Finale: Poco allegro played by The Blech String Quartet:
Harry Blech (violin)
Edward Silverman (violin)
Douglas Thomson (viola)
William Pleeth (violoncello)
The First Test Match
England v. South Africa
A commentary on the closing overs of the day and a summary of the first day's play, by E. W. Swanton, from the Wanderers' Cricket Ground,
Johannesburg
For the first time in history descriptions of the closing overs and a short account of each day's play in all five Test matches will be broadcast from South Africa. The broadcasts have been arranged in co-operation with the South African Broadcasting Corporation, and E. W. Swanton, who will undertake them, is the well-known Middlesex cricketer and sports writer. Today he will come to the microphone with his opening broadcast at the Wanderers' Ground, Johannesburg, where, six thousand feet above sea level, the English cricketers will be striving to reverse the defeat they suffered when South Africa last visited London in 1935.
with Bill Currie , Ray Ellington ,
Wendy Claire , Carol Dexter
(by permission of RKO Radio
Pictures, Lid.)
Screen play by Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano. Radio adaptation by B. Martin Marks and Douglas Moodie. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Music by George Gershwin. Radio score by Jack Beaver with Diana Ward as Linda Keene and John Stevens as Petrov
Other parts played by Sidney Keith , Guy Glover , Macdonald Parke , and Mary Alice Collins
Ike Hatch
The Five in Harmony
The Four Aces
The BBC Augmented Variety
Orchestra conducted by Louis Levy
Solo pianist, Harry Foster
Production -by Douglas Moodie
Shall We Dance ? ' was broadcast in the National programme on Thursday.
including Weather Forecast
(Section E)
Led by Manus O'Donnell
Conducted by Constant Lambert
Who's in Town for Christmas ?
This evening the busy roar of London's Christmas Eve traffic is stilled, in order that we may bring to the microphone some of the interesting people who are
IN TOWN TONIGHT introducing
Seasonable stories told by personalities from every walk of life, in interviews with Lionel Gamlin
Topical News Flashes and ' Standing on the Corner '
(Michael Standing takes his microphone amongst the merry crowds)
Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan
Thyme and Spice permitting with Elsie Day
The fairy on the cake, who will almon(d) ice
Rupert Hazell
King of the nuts, who will crack one or two
Tommy Handley who suets everybody, goodness snows
Bertha Willmott
The girl with the candied appeel
Nosmo King and Hubert Stuffed with sage advice
Clapham and Dwyer
Completely crackers, but bang up to date
Suzette Tarri
You'll hear her angelica
Vine, More, and Nevard
The three heavy waits
The BBC Revue Chorus of Sultans and Sultanas
The BBC Variety Orchestra
(who will mince meaters)
Earnestly dished up by Longstaffe
Notice to Listeners: Please do not dessert us before the end!
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping
Raymond Gram Swing from America
A Christmas programme for varying tastes arranged by Gwen Williams and Mark H. Lubbock
Cast
The singers: Lorely Dyer and John Hargreaves
Compere, Derek McCulloch
The BBC Theatre Chorus
(trained by Charles Groves)
The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor. Stanford Robinson at the Theatre Organ,
Charles Groves
A short story by Gerald Bullett , read by Ronald Watkins
with Alice Mann , The Canadian
Capers, Sue and her Boy Friends from the Cafe de Paris
