The Story of the Birth of Jesus Christ sung by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge with Richard Standen (bass)
Christopher Zealley (tenor)
(Evangelist)
Continuo:
Raymond Clark (cello)
Thurston Dart (harpsichord) and Hugh McLean (organ)
A section of the Goldsbrough Orchestra
(Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conducted by Boris Ord

for Christmas Day by the Rev. H. A. Williams
Chaplain and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Segovia (guitar)
Sophie Wyss (soprano)
BBC Singers
The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)
Jean Pougnet (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
William Pleeth (cello)
Marie Korchinska (harp)
The Ligendes Dorées arc episode* from Che life of Christ, collected by Yvette Guilbert from the Bibles de Noill of Melun, Troyes, and Nantes, and set to their traditional airs.

by Gordon Craig
'The Mask, tfhat paramount mean of dramatic expression In <hi< talk Gordon Craig explains why be believes due to be as true of the theatre today as it was in the ancient world.
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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCaUum )
Conductor,
Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.

or ' The Verbiage Collector
A tribute to a minor daemon who, by his assiduity and pertinacity In the collection of vain and unmeaning sounds, sank to greatness: inscribed for radio by Michael Ayrton

plays Strauss waltzes and polkas

Talk by Xan Fielding

One of the fiercest battles of the Greek War of Independence was fought on May 17, 1828, in a small plain on the south coast of Crete. Near the Venetian fortress of Frangocastello, 385 Greeks led by the Epirote general Hadjimichalis were attacked by a Turkish force nine thousand strong and slaughtered to the last man. Since then their ghosts have haunted the scene. This phantom army is said to materialise at dawn on each anniversary of the battle. Xan Fielding, who spent this year's anniversary on the spot, describes his investigations into the phenomenon.