From the short story by Walter de la Mare , adapted for broadcasting and produced by Mary Hope Allen
Choral Fantasia: Valet will ich dir geben
Trio-Sonata No. 1, in E flat
Three Preludes on the Chorale, Nun komm dpr Heiden Heiland
Trio-Sonata No. 2. in C minor
Choral Prelude for New Year's Day:
In dir ist Freude played by Harold Darke (organ)
From St Michael 's, Cornhill
This talk by F. S. Harvey-Cant , one of the country's leading rose specialists, tells a story of romance and horticultural achievement that goes back to a period three centuries before the Christian era
Mary Jarred (contralto)
Leonard Brain (oboe)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Norman del Mar (horn)
Blech String Quartet
Part 1
Including poems by E. J. Scovell , Alex Comfort, and Hal Summers. Readers, Peggy Ashcroft and Mathew Crosse. Programme produced by Patric Dickinson
Part 2
A study in Everyman's time
Written by W. R. Rodgers and produced by Louis MacNeice
Special music by Alan Rawsthorne
A New-Year round-up, including the circle of time. the family circle, the social circle, the vicious circle, and the stone circle. The Bethlehem story, in a contemporary setting, is used to point the theme, and to show Everyman's roundabout progress from his birth upwards
G. M. Young on Robert Byron
Tonight G. M. Young , the distinguished historian and critic, talks about Robert Byron , traveller, writer, and art-historian, who was lost when his ship was torpedoed on its way to the Middle East
First of a series of talks in which speakers discuss the personality and achievement of men whose creative promise-as poets, or painters, or in other aesthetic spheres-was ended by their death during the recent war
Emelie Hooke (soprano)
Jan Smeterlin (piano)