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: Second Test Match AUSTRALIA v. ENGLAND
Commentary during the last half-hour of the fourth day's play, followed by a summaryCommentators: Alan McGilvray Bernard Kerr , Charles Fortune
A. G. Moyes , and Arthur Gilligan
From Sydney Cricket Ground
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: Five to Ten
A story, a hymn, and a prayer: TOMMY PEARS
at the BBC theatre organ: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
George Scott-Wood and his Accordion BandContributors
: MORNING STORY
' The Silver Locket' by Aubrey Danvers-WalkerReader, Brenda Dunrich
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: ONE THING AND ANOTHER
A record miscellany: Concert Hour BBC MIDLAND ORCHESTRA
(Leader, Donald Sturtivant )Conducted by Leo Wurmser
Ronald Bristol (tenor)
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: THE HOLLY AND THE IVY
A programme of carols sung by the Blackfriars SingersConductor, John Williams
Hodie Christus natus eat....Sweelinck
(Continued in next column)
From the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great.
West Smithfleld. London. E.C.1
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: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
A programme for children under fiveToday's story: ' The Birds' Christmas Tree.' by E. Herbert , told by Daphne Oxenford.
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: Woman's Hour
From ScotlandScotland Entertains with Maurice Little and his Orchestra and the Musselburgh Junior Singers
Conductor, Morton Robertson
Serial: 'Triumph of Love' by Leona S. Bruckner
Abridged by Audrey Lucas
Read by Peggy Hassard
The seventh of ten instalments
Programme introduced by Elsie Russell
Contributors
: JACK DEARLOVE
and his OrchestraElizabeth Robinson (contralto)
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: Music While You Work
Band of the Coldstream Guards, conducted by Major Douglas A. Pope, Director of MusicContributors
: MRS. DALE'S DIARY
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her familyScript by Hazel Adair
Contributors
: FELTON RAPLEY
at the BBC theatre organ: Three Band Session
Gramophone records of: The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, The Wally Stott Orchestra, The Benny Goodman Sextet: Commonwealth of Song
The second of four programmes in which students from all parts of the Commonwealth present their traditional songs.This evening: Nigeria, Canada, India
Series arranged by David Jones
The third programme can be heard tomorrow evening and the fourth on Boxing Day
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: Wilfred Pickles in 'HAVE A GO!'
visits a well-known store in East London at the height of its Christmas rush with Mabel at ' the table' and Harry Hudson at the pianoPresented bv
Stephen Renaud Williams
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: Nights of Gladness
The Jack Hylton Story-IWritten and narrated by John Watt
The Singers: Iris Villiers, Terry James, Clarence Wright
BBC Chorus (Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
BBC Concert Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe)
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
Musical adviser, Gwen Williams
Programme produced by Michael North
One of the most colourful figures in the theatre today is Jack Hylton. He is equally at home presenting the Crazy Gang or the London Philharmonic Orchestra; an American musical comedy or Ingrid Bergman in a highbrow opera by Honegger. The impresario of today was the band leader of yesterday and this programme tells his story from his humble beginnings in Bolton, through the furore of Jack Hylton and his Band, to his first essay in management with the stage presentation of the BBC's 'Band Waggon.'
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: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Episode 12: The Final Problem
[Starring] John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson WellesThe original tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised for radio by John Keir Cross
A Harry Alan Towers production
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: Tony Hancock with Moira Lister, Bill Kerr and Sidney James in HANCOCK'S HALF-HOUR
Being a chronicle of the life and misadventures of Anthony Hancock , the celebrated waifThe ' Hancock Theme ' and other incidental music composed by Wally Stott
The Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor. Harry Rabinowitz
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
Contributors
: BBC SWING SESSION
Ted Heath and his Music with Dennis LotisKathy Llovd. and Bobbie Britton
On the Beat
Dave Shand and his Modern Music
Produced by John Hooper
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: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
' Typhoon ' by Joseph Conrad(to be read in nine instalments)
Reader, Andrew Faulds
Abridger, Robert MacDermot
7—' Trouble with the passengers'
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: BBC SWING SESSION
Ted Heath and his Music with Dennis Lotis , Kathy Lloyd and Bobbie Britton and Dave Shand and his Modern MusicIntroduced by Alan Dell
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