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: THE DAILY SERVICE
@ from page 41 of ' New Every Morning: THE BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie Conductor, Guy WarrackContributors
: TOM BAWCOCK'S EVE
A Forgotten Festival Recalled at The Ship Inn, MouseholeTom Bawcock was a legendary character who lived at Mousehole, the tiny fishing-village near Pen-lance, in Cornwall. One year on the day before Christmas Eve, Tom went to sea alone and made a fabulous catch. This was made the occasion of a feast and the subject of a song. The celebration has now died out but Mousehole remains a simple fishing-village, and today you will hear stories of the fishing of yesterday and today from—
John Harry Sid Tender
Introduced by Bernard Fishwick with The Mousehole Singers
The programme produced by Pat Beech
(A recording of the broadcast in the West of England programme on Friday)
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: CHRISTMAS MUSIC
A Pianoforte Recital by Michael Mullinar(From Midland)
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: SONG AND DANCE
Popular dance music and songs on gramophone records: LEONARDI AND HIS WIENER ORCHESTER
with Renee Barr (soprano)Selection, (Soloist, ERIC SHRIMPTON ) (Soloist, PETER VALERIO> ) (Soloist, CHARLES EVANS> ) (Soloist, ROBERT KEYS> )
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: H. ROBINSON CLEAVER
at the Organ of the Granada, Welling Christmas Favourites Old and New: DVORAK—
Quartet in D minor, Op. 341 Allegro. 2 Alia polka: Allegretto scherzando. 3 Adagio. 4 Finale: Poco allegro played by The Blech String Quartet:
Harry Blech (violin)
Edward Silverman (violin)
Douglas Thomson (viola)
William Pleeth (violoncello)
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: CRICKET
The First Test MatchEngland v. South Africa
A commentary on the closing overs of the day and a summary of the first day's play, by E. W. Swanton, from the Wanderers' Cricket Ground,
Johannesburg
For the first time in history descriptions of the closing overs and a short account of each day's play in all five Test matches will be broadcast from South Africa. The broadcasts have been arranged in co-operation with the South African Broadcasting Corporation, and E. W. Swanton, who will undertake them, is the well-known Middlesex cricketer and sports writer. Today he will come to the microphone with his opening broadcast at the Wanderers' Ground, Johannesburg, where, six thousand feet above sea level, the English cricketers will be striving to reverse the defeat they suffered when South Africa last visited London in 1935.
: HARRY ROY AND HIS BAND
with Bill Currie , Ray Ellington ,Wendy Claire , Carol Dexter
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: A radio version of the famous Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire film SHALL WE DANCE?'
(by permission of RKO RadioPictures, Lid.)
Screen play by Allan Scott and Ernest Pagano. Radio adaptation by B. Martin Marks and Douglas Moodie. Lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Music by George Gershwin. Radio score by Jack Beaver with Diana Ward as Linda Keene and John Stevens as Petrov
Other parts played by Sidney Keith , Guy Glover , Macdonald Parke , and Mary Alice Collins
Ike Hatch
The Five in Harmony
The Four Aces
The BBC Augmented Variety
Orchestra conducted by Louis Levy
Solo pianist, Harry Foster
Production -by Douglas Moodie
Shall We Dance ? ' was broadcast in the National programme on Thursday.
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: THE FIRST NEWS
including Weather Forecast: THE BBC ORCHESTRA
(Section E)Led by Manus O'Donnell
Conducted by Constant Lambert
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: STOP!
Who's in Town for Christmas ?This evening the busy roar of London's Christmas Eve traffic is stilled, in order that we may bring to the microphone some of the interesting people who are
IN TOWN TONIGHT introducing
Seasonable stories told by personalities from every walk of life, in interviews with Lionel Gamlin
Topical News Flashes and ' Standing on the Corner '
(Michael Standing takes his microphone amongst the merry crowds)
Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan
Contributors
: A MERRY XMAS SING SONG
Thyme and Spice permitting with Elsie DayThe fairy on the cake, who will almon(d) ice
Rupert Hazell
King of the nuts, who will crack one or two
Tommy Handley who suets everybody, goodness snows
Bertha Willmott
The girl with the candied appeel
Nosmo King and Hubert Stuffed with sage advice
Clapham and Dwyer
Completely crackers, but bang up to date
Suzette Tarri
You'll hear her angelica
Vine, More, and Nevard
The three heavy waits
The BBC Revue Chorus of Sultans and Sultanas
The BBC Variety Orchestra
(who will mince meaters)
Earnestly dished up by Longstaffe
Notice to Listeners: Please do not dessert us before the end!
Contributors
: THE THIRD NEWS
including Weather Forecast and Forecast for Shipping: AMERICAN COMMENTARY
Raymond Gram Swing from America: CHRISTMAS NUMBER
A Christmas programme for varying tastes arranged by Gwen Williams and Mark H. LubbockCast
The singers: Lorely Dyer and John Hargreaves
Compere, Derek McCulloch
The BBC Theatre Chorus
(trained by Charles Groves)
The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor. Stanford Robinson at the Theatre Organ,
Charles Groves
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: 'THE SURPRISE'
A short story by Gerald Bullett , read by Ronald WatkinsContributors
: BILLY BISSETT AND HIS CANADIANS
with Alice Mann , The CanadianCapers, Sue and her Boy Friends from the Cafe de Paris
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