by Hilaire Belloc
Reader, Carleton Hobbs
' Every word I have written of him is true.' So Hilaire Belloc ends this account of what happened to a soldier of his regiment on a certain Christmas Eve in the Forest of Ardennes.

Cello Concerto in B minor. Op. 104: played by Casals (cello) and the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Szell
Scherzo Capriccioso, Op. 66: played by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik on gramophone records

Conducted by S. Potter
For this final lecture of retrospect and revision the Founder returns from his retirement to lead us for the first time round the Lifemanship Correspondence College itself. If the weather allows, it is hoped to eavesdrop on some L.C.C. study groups in actual session and hear again, explaining their most important gambits, demonstrators like B. Hardy , R. Simpson , G. Wincott , and D. Guyler.
Produced by D. Cleverdon

(Transcribed and edited by John Stevens )
Eilidh MeNab (soprano)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Norman Platt (baritone) The Cambridge Singers Conductor, John Stevens
Goday my Lord
Proface, welcome Nova nova
Ecce quod natura Ivy is good
Illuminare Jerusalem Jesu fili Virginis
Lullay lullow Alma Redemptoris Mater
Musica Britannica published by the Royal
Musical Association with the support of the Arts Council, is designed as an authoritative national collection of English music. The fourth volume comprises, for the most part, polyphonic carols of the fifteenth century, in English ani Latin. A second programme of carols from this volume will be broadcast on January 4.

Talk by Robert Guillain foreign news editor of Le Monde

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
The Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Sehidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
This is the last of a series of programmes in which all Beethoven's string quartets have been played.

A Christmas Oratorio by W. H. Auden
Music composed by Matyas Seiber.
Production by Frederick Bradnum and and The Four Faculties:
and Orchestra and the Dorian Singers conducted by Matyas Seiber.