for Christmas Day from Newcastle Cathedral
Versicles and Responses Psalm 132
First Lesson: Isaiah 7, vv. 10-14 From east to west (E.H. 18) Magnificat (Stanford in C)
Second Lesson: St. Matthew 1, w.
18-25
Nunc dimittis (Stanford in C) Creed
Versicles and Responses
Hodie Chnstus rratus est (Sweeltnck) Sermon by the Very Rev. W. M. Kennaby. Provost of Newcastle
The great God of heaven is come down to earth (E.H. 29)
At the procession: 0 come, all ye faithful (E.H. 614)
Blessing
Organ: Chorale prelude, In dulci jubito (Bach)
Master of the Music. Kenneth Malcolmson
The cathedral church of St. Nicholas in Newcastle-upon-Tyne inherits the earliest traditions of Christianity in the North, recalling the days of King Oswald and St. Aidan, first Bishop of Lindisfarne in 635; though Danish invasions in the ninth century caused the bishopric to be moved 10 Durham. When the Newcastle diocese was created in 1882 St. Nicholas' became the cathedral church.

by James Thurber
A fairy story for older children adapted for broadcasting by Len Tennyson
Wizards, dwarfs, signs, and voices played by Sidney Keith . Ian Catford . Clarence Wright. Harry Hutchinson
Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins
Production by Michael Barsley

BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
Sidonie Goossens (harp)
Benjamin Britten
A Ceremony of Carols. Op. 28, for treble voices and harp
A Boy Was Born: choral variations tor men's, women's, and boys' voices

Talk by Algernon Cecil

Fantasy in C, Op. 15
(The Wanderer) played by Clifford Curzon (piano)
Eighth of a series of recitals of piano music by Schubert.

A selection from
' The Sea and the Mirror'
A commentary on Shakespeare's ' The Tempest'
Readers:
Reginald Beckwith , Laidman Browne
Beryl Calder. Andrew Faulds
Michael Flanders , Hallam Fordham
Carleton Hobbs , Joseph O'Conor
Production by Frank Hauser

Piano Concerto No. 3, in C minor played by Edwin Fischer (piano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan