from King's College Chapel, Cambridge
Processional Carol: The First Nowell Sentence, Confession, and Absolution The Lord's Prayer
Versicles and Responses (W. Smith) Psplm 132
First Lesson: Isaiah 7, vv. 10-14 Magnificat (Stanford, in C)
Second Lesson: 1 John 4, vv. 7-end Nunc dimittis (Stanford, in C) Creed
Lesser Litany (W. Smith)
The Lord's Prayer (Robert Stones) Versicles and Responses (W. Smith) Collects
Anthem: From Messiah (Handel)
Pastoral Symphony: There were shepherds; And lo, the angel of the .Lord: And the angel said unto them; And suddenly there was with the angel; Glory to God; For unto us a Child is born
Prayers Carols:
Up. good Christen folk (words and setting, G. R. Woodward : tune, Piae Cantiones)
The Coventry Carol (words fifteenth century: tune. 1591)
Unto us is born a Son (words,
G. R. Woodward : tune, Piae Cantiones, arr. Geoffrey Shaw )
While shepherds watched their flocks
(E.H. 30)
Organist, Boris Ord

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1

Talk by Ian Cox
Commander Cox has worked as a shoemaker, and done scientific research in palaeontology; he has been a trimmer, composing verse in the stokehold; he has sailed small boats in dangerous seas; he knows the waterfronts of most of the world's ports, and the sea itself from the Arctic to the islands of the tropics. His interests range from cooking to acoustics

Part 2

A play in three acts by Christopher Hassall
Produced by Felix Felton
Music composed and conducted by Leighton Lucas , with the Con Moto Choir. (Incorporating two songs written by the author for the original production at Canterbury)
The play begins in Trebizond in 4 B.C. and ends in Jerusalem in a.d. 30

BBC Singers
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
Winifred Davey and Eric Gritton (two pianos)