Tuesday, December 25

New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 25

Tuesday, December 25

IAC peace ®. 4a.m. The Shepherds of Bethlehem Music for Christmas, with the Alexandra Choir, Westminster Orchestra, Dorothy Bond (soprano) and Trevor Anthony (bass) (BBC) 9.32 Charles Laughton relates three Christmas stories 410. 0 Combined Service: Baptist Tabernacle Preacher: Rev.*R. J. Currie 41.0 ANGLICAN SERVICE St. Mary’s Cathedral Preacher: Dean G, R. Monteith Organist: Dr.. N. A. Stephenson 412. Bp.m. Light Recitals 12.33 Players and Singers 4..0 The Work Goes On: Interviews with people whose work continues through Christmas Day (NZBS) 2.0 The Vienna Boys’ Choir 2.30 Moura Lympany (piano) with the National Symphony Orchestra of England conducted by Warwick Braithwaite Concerto No. 2 in G Minor Saint-Saens 3. 0 London Forum: Sir. Steuart Wilson, Professor Joad, Compton Mackenzie and Gilbert Harding discuss their attitude towards the spirit of Christmas (BBC) 4. 0 The Halle Orchestra conducted by Sir John Barbirolli Symphony No. 4 in |e, (Italian) Mendelssohn 4.30 In Lighter Vein 5. 0 A Christmas Carol: Dickens’s ghost Story with Alec Pe cgay as Scrooge BC) 5.30 Children’s 6. 0 Allen Roth Strings 7.18 Christmas Lo Fg Bandbox (BB 8.35 The London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Anthony Collins Carmen Suite Bizet 9.30 A Half Century of Musical Comedy: Reminiscences: of London’s Theatre-. land, by W. MacQueen-Pope, with the BRC Midland Light Orchestra and chorus. 10.30 Close down l 4c 880 kc. 341m 6. Op.m. Dinner Music 7. 0 Marie Vanderwart (’cello) and Dorothy Davies (piano) Sonata in G Minor, Op, 5, No. 2 (N ZB: S) Beethoven 7.23 Ossy Renardy (violin) The Witch’s Dance Paganini 7.31 Talking About Music: Music at Christmas, by Owen Jensen 7.51 Marian Anderson (contralto) Prepare Thyself Zion (Christmas Oratorio) Bach The Berlin State Opera House Orchestra Christmas Concerto Corelli 8.12 Hubert Milverton-Carta (N.Z. tenor) ~ Elizabeth Page (English pianist) ano: Noel Gardiner Tenor: Silent Night Gruber Madonna. and Child Thiman The Birds Buck Dick Knight of Bethlehem Thomson ano: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Choral from Cantata No. 147) Bach-Hess Tenor: Recit and Air; Thou, Jesus Art yd Constant Friend Ye Foes of Man (Christmas Oratorio) Air: See! What His Love Will Do (Cantata No, 85) Bach (Studio) 8.36 The Christmas Story, a fantasia for solo voices and choir by. Thomas Gray presented by a ebay: Choral Group 8.56 Joan Bryant (soprano), George Hopkins (clarinet) and Albert Bryant (piano) The Shepherd on the Rock Schubert . 7 Emmanuel, a Nativity play in verse and poetic prose begets orsyth BC) 40.30 Close down (] Y/[D AUCKLAND ; 1250 ke. 240 ™. 10. Oa.m. To Wish You a Happy Christmas 40.30 Christmas Day Concert 412. O Let’s Have a Chorus 12.30 p.m. Yuletide Variety 1.0 Mario Lanza (tenor) 4.45 The Small One, presented by Bing Crosby 1.30 Holiday Harmony 3. 0 Canterbury Choir 3.15 Light Orchestras

8. 0 Gracie Fields Show 3.30 Parade for Leisure 5. 0 A Christmas Carol: A feature from America 6. 0 Frank Black and his Singing Americans 6.15 A Matter of Luck y AE A Continental Christmas 7.15 Leo Paul and Mary Ford 7.30 Radio Rotunda 8.30 Cuckoo in the Nest 9. 0 The Lilt of Lehar 9.15 Sing It Again 9.30 The Hall Light Orchestra, Elisabeth Schumann and Lauritz Melchior 10. 0 District Weather Forecast Close down U2KIN Sond osm 8. Oa.m." Breakfast Session 10. 0 Sweet Singing in the Choir: Carols by the Fleet Street Choir, introduced hy Alec Robertson (BBC) 10.45 Leroy Anderson and his Orchestra 11. 0 Close down 6.30 p.m. After Dinner Music 1 ob The Santa Claus Story 7.30 Roberto Inglez and his Orchestra 7.45 Five Wishes for Christmas: A fantasy, featuring seventeen stars of the British screen 46 Peter Yorke’s Orchestra 9.15 Songs My Mother Taught Me (NZBS) 9.30 The George Melachrino Orchestre 9.45 ZB Book Review (NZBS) 10.15 At Close of Day 10.30 Close down PAH trated Oam. Musical Greetings > 0 Christmas Day in the Morning 9. 0 A Parcel of Melody 9.30 King Wenceslas, a Christmas play starring Ann Stephens, Florence esmond and Arthur Askey 10. O Hospital Requests 11..0 Women’s Hour: Documentary, Old People’s Welfare Organisations 12. 0 For Your Christmas Dinner 1.0 p.m. Top Score of 1951: The Best of the Year’s Songs 2.0 Close down 6. 0 For Our Younger Listeners 6.30 Glasgow Orpheus Choir: Scottish Songs (BBC) 7. 0 How We Spend Christmas in Europe: New Settlers describe Continental Celebrations 7.30 Going: to the Pantomime; Child- | hood Memories 8. 0 Much Twiddling of-the-Knobs, a. light-hearted lecture in listening, by Sam Costa and Maurice Denham (BBC) 8.15 Christmas. Songs: Eleanor Steber 8.30 Take It From re (RBC) 9. 4 A Christmas Carol: Dickens’s story with Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge 9.30 Excerpts from Messiah Handel 10.30 Close down I 2% BO A PAN 9..4 a.m. Morning Star: John McCormack 9.30 My Son Tom . 10.16 They Sing Together ey In "ee Mood 4 11.15 The ristmas Child, a modern Nativity aay" -_ Verse by D. G. Bridson, with Wilfred Pickles and Marjorie Westbury (BBC) 412. 0 Dinner Music 2. 0 p.m. Music from Opera 2.50 Melodies You Know 3.15 Afternoon Artist: Jussi. Bjorling 4. 0 Popular Classics 5. 0 For Our Younger Listeners: Adventures of Eaplorers: Race for the Pole 5.30 Hawaiian Harmonies 6.45 What They Said at the Time: When Wales Beat the All Blacks (NZBS) 7.30 The Nativity: A Sacred Cantata by Eric Thiman, with Merle Gamble (soprano), Owen Bonifant (tenor) and Chorus prepared by Stanley Oliver, conducted by the composer at the organ (NZBS) 8.35 MICKY BORSTEINES (piano) Classical ‘Medley Music Box (Studio) i 9.30 A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens’s Story, featuring John Mills 9.45 The Green Archer 10.30 Close down

40.10 Devotional Service: Carols by the QV stoke. ‘526m 6.30 a.m. Local Weather Forecast 6.32 Carols 8.30 Carols 9. 4 Music for Toytime 9.31 These We Have Loved: Familiar Melodies Salvation Army Songsters 10.49 The Webb Tilton Programme 41. 0. Come into the Parlour (BBC) 11.30 Featured Singer: Joseph Schmidt 11.45 The Salon Concert Players 42. 0 Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Afternoon Matinee 7.20 The Work Goes On: Interviews with people whose work continues on Christmas Day (NZBS) 8.35 Four Hands on Two Pianos: John Parkin and Peter Jeffrey, with John McDonald to sing (NZBS) 9.30 The Men who Lead the Bands: George Melachrino 0. 0 Variety Bandbox: Christmas Day Fdition (BBC ) 41.16 Old Time Dance Music 411.45 Ray’s a Laugh (BBC) 12.15a.m. Programme Party: Memories of some 1951 Sessions 1.0 A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens’s famous ghost et FS with -Alec. Guinness as Scrooge (BBC) 1.30 Eddy Honard’s Orchestra 2.0. BBC Christmas Programme 3. ih Christmas Message from. H.M, the ds6 arate) Close down | AVE WELLINGTON 660kc. 455m. 1. O p.m. Variety 2. 0 London Studio Concerts The Westminster Orchestra conducted by Denis Wright A Carol Symphony Hely-Hutchinson Noel Gardiner (BBC) 2.30 Favourites from Opera: Tosca 3.0 The Selfish Giant: Frederic Marsh tells Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Tale 3.12 Christmas Music and Customs, a feature illustrating the types of music and the various customs of Christmas in many countries 3.45 Five Australian Christmas Carols: The Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Choir with the Victorian Symphony Orchestra (By courtesy of the ABC 4.5 The Vagabonds 4.30 Four N.Z. Christmases: An historical feature concerning the years 1642, 1769, 1795 and 14814, by Asquith M. Thompson: (NZBS) 5. 0 For the Children: The Improvident Squirrel, a comedy cartoon (BBC) 5.30 Early Evening Concert 6. 0 Dinner Music 7. 0 Soloists. with Orchestra d’Archi, Concerto Grosso, Op. 3, No. 2 Geminiani 7.16 Elisabeth. Schwarzkopf (soprano) Sheep May Safely Graze Sweet Bird: Penseroso’s gh ("Tl Penseroso’’) Handel My Heart Ever Faithful Bach 7.36 Szymon. Goldberg (violin) and Gerald Moore (piano) som a No. 4 in D Handel 8.0 Arturo ’ Michelangeli ch Bach-Busoni aconne 8.15 a Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens’s "famous ghost eect’ with Alec Guinness as Scrooge (Repeat broadcast from Ova at 1.0 a.m.) 8.45 The Nativity: A Sacred Cantata hy Eric Thiman, with Merle Gamble (soprano), Owen Bonifant (tenor) and Chorus, prepared by Stanley Oliver, conducted by Eric Thiman at the. organ (NZBS) 9.20 Serenade Concert The London Baroque Ensemble conducted by Karl Haas Divertimento in G Haydn The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham Divertimento No. 2 in D, K.131 Mozart The Boston Promenade Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler Matinees Musicales Rossini-Britten 10.15 Gregorian Anthem The Paderborn "choir conducted by Gustav Schauerte Alleluia from the Christmas Vig!! Mass Alleluia: Post dies ect io Alleluia: Adarabo Alleluia from the First Christmas Mass 10.30 Close down

QVD Moke Sas 7. Op.m. Christmas Box 7.30 Carols 8. 0 Bottle Castle 8.16 Pantomime: Cinderella 8.30 Santa Rides Again 9. 0 Comedy Programme 9.30 Christmas at Wainui-o-mata NZBS) 10. 0 District Weather Forecast Close down . 2X GISBORNE 1010 ke. 297 m. 8. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 8.30 District Weather Forecast 9. 3 A Christmas Carol, by Charle Dickens, with Ronald Colman as Scroog 9.30 Orchestral Music 9.45 Polish Christmas Carols 10. O London Studio Concerts: The West minster Orchestra conducted by Deni Wright A Carul Symphony Hely-Hutchinso Noel Gardine (BBC) 40.30 Excerpts from Handel’s "Messiah’ 11. 0 Close down 6.30 p.m. Five Wishes for Christmas, Christmas Fantasy, featuring seventee Stars of the British screen 7. 0 A Christmas Message from th Mayor of Gisborne, H. H. Barker . 8 The Kentucky Minstrels 7.15 Christmas in Other Lands 7.45 The London Symphony Orchestr conducted by Bruno Walter Concerto Grosso in G Minor (Christ mas Concerto) Corell 8. 0 A Christmas Story by Leo Tolstoy 8.30 Citizens of the World: The Stor of Raphael Lemkin (UN Radio) 9. 3 Choral and Orchestral Conce Doris Gambelt (soprano), with the BB Chorus and the BBC Symphony Orches tra. conducted by Sir Adrian Boult First Choral Symphony Hol 10.30 Close down ON CA nee a 8. 9am. Holiday Bulletin 9.30 Shepherds of Bethlehem: Music f ‘the Morning of Christmas Day, sung b the Alexander Choir with the Westmin ster Orchestra (BBC) 10. 0 Christmas Service: Trinity Chure (Under the auspices of the Napier Mi isters’ Assoc.) Chairman: Rev. W. R. Francis Preacher: Rev. J. Ewen Simpson Organist: Barbara Mew 11.156 The Amazing Duchess 11.30 Australian Variety Artists 12. O Dinner Music 2. Op.m. London Forum: Sir Steuna Wilson, Professor Joad, Compton M Kenzie and Gilbert Harding discuss the attitude towards the spirit of Christm (BBC) 2.30 Christmas Matinee 4. 0 The William Flynn Show 4.30 Two’s Company 5.0 #£Children’s session: Secret of Sh ow Valley and Halliday and Son 6.30 For the Old Folks 5.57 Mantovant and his Orchestra 7.0 The Meélachrino Orchestra and Kentucky Minstrels 7.30 We Beg to. Differ: A mixed tea of prominent personalities in a ligh hearted cet various subject

NATIONAL BROADCASTS Dominion Weather Forecasts YA and YZ Stations: 7.15, 9.0 a.m.; 12.30 and 9.0 p.m. X Stations: 9 p.m. YA and YZ Stations 6. 0 a.m, London News. Breakfast session (YA‘s only) 7.0 8.0 Lundon News. Breakfast session 9.50 Health in the Home: Strabismus -12.30p.m. Christmas Messages from the Prime Minister and the’ Leader of the a (This will also be broadcast by ) 3.30 Cricket Commentary . 6.15 Cricket Review 6.30 London News e 6.45 Rodio Newsree!l (not 1YZ) 8.15 Cricket Commentary 9.0 Overseas and N.Z. News

Tuesday. December 25

,0 Britain Sings: Sale and District Musical . Society’ conducted by Alfred. Higson %*(BBC) 35 Stanley Black, his Piano and Orchestra 30 Play: Once a Crook, by Evadine Price and Ken Attiwell (NZBS) 1.30 Close down 2XP Nien m4 p.m. Concert BBC Feature Out of the Silence 5 McGlusky the Filibuster 30 RhythnY Time » 0 Close down 2 WANGANUI 1200 ke. 250 m. Oam. Christmas Requests 4 Christmas Morning (from WangaOrphanage ) Seasonal Songs 0 Cavaicade of Christmas: The Nativity told in Song and Story 320 The Queen's Hall Light Orchestra 45 ‘The Trapp Family Singers: Carols for Christmas (VOA) » O Close down p.m. Visit of Santa Claus to the Children’s Ward: Delayed broadcast from Wanganui Hospital it) Princess Precious Pearl, a pantomime for children Christmas Songs and Carols: Massed Wanganui Choirs (from Virginia Lake) 0 Christmas in Our Home: Wanganui Families tell how this Festival is celebrated in their home 4 Musical Memories A Child is Born, a Nativity play by Stephen Vincent Benet (VOA) 0 George. Melachrino, David Rose and Andre Kostelanetz Orchestras Close down

2QdKN) 1 sana wh m. 8. Oa.m. Christmas Cheer 9.50 Excerpts from Messiah Handel 10. 4 Cavaicade of Christmas: The Nat-. ivity told in song and story 10.30 Memories of Lehar 10.40 For the Children: Thumbelina and Jack and the Beanstalk 11. 0 Close down 6.30 p.m. King Wenceslas, a Christmas play for children written and produced by Edward P. Genn | Victor Silvester’s Ballroom Orchestra Nursery Playtime Party Wilfred Pickles (narrator) with the Philharmonia Orchestra Peter and the Wolf Prokofieff | 7.20 Christmas Interlude of Verse and. Music: Poems read by Meriel Fernie with Maxwell Fernie (organ) (NZBS) 7.45 A Christmas Story, by Leo Tolstoi 8. 0 Fantasy: Light Orchestral Music — 8.30 Take It From Here (BBC) 9. 4 Sweet Rhythm 9.39 British Sport: Golf, a feature by Patric Dickinson tracing the history of the Royal and Ancient game from its beginnings in Scotland and including an interview with Bobby Locke, twice winner of the British Open (BBC) 10. 0 Film music and operetta 10.30 Close down 3Y, CHRISTCHURCH | 690 kc. 434m. 7.58 a.m. Canterbury Weather Forecast 9. 0 All Christians Sing: Carols by the BBC Singers, with George Thalben Ball (organ) (BBC) 9.30 An Eric Coates Concert 10.0 N.Z. Drum Bands and Bandsmen 11. 0 ANGLICAN SERVICE: The Cathedral Preacher: His Lordship the Bishop of Christchurch Organist and Choirmaster: C. Foster Browne 12.15 p.m. Short Concert Piano Pieces 2.0 songs and Melodies from Favourite Grand Operas , 2.30 The People Sing: Christchurch Harmonic Society and Audience combine in singing songs of the season (NZBS) 3.15 Ballet Music: Faust Gounod 4. 0 A Christmas Carol: Charles Dickens’s famous ghost. story, with Alec Guinness as Scrooge (BBC) 4.30 A Medley of Memories: Clarence B. Hall (organ), with Thomas E. West (tenor) and Edna Boyd Wilson (mezzosoprano) (NZBS) ‘ 5. 0 Chilcren’s Service 5.45 Christchurch Boys’ High "School Choir: Some little-known Songs. of Christmastide (NZBS) : 7. 0 Evening Serenade 7.15 The Work Goes On: Interviews with people whose work © continues through Christmas Day (NZBS) 8.35 Canterbury Roundabout: Christmas Edition 9.30 Christmas ian Bandbox 10.30 Close down SYS ae egReH 5. 0 p.m, Concert Hour : 6. 0 Instrumental and Vocal Soloists , The Christmas Rose Dunhill Sung by Anita Ritchie, Helen Bennington, Christina Crawford. Dale. Mancer, Catherine Benbow, Kathleen Hart, and Beryl Booth, with Alison Edgar (accompanist), directed by Jobn Ritchie (NZBS) 7.30 London Forum: Sir Steuart Wilson, Professor Joad, Compton Mackenzie and Gilbert Harding discuss their. attitude , towards the Christmas spirit. (BBC) 8. 0 Carols (From the Christchurch Cathedral) 8.39 Piano Concerto in-A Minor Grieg Moura Lympany and the National Symphony Orchestra of England 8.58 Schubert Songs from the.Winter Journey Lotte Lehmann (soprano) Sonatina in G Minor, Op..137, No. 3 Susanne Fischer (violin) and Kart Freund _(pianoy * gee 9.32 The Nativity: A sacred. by Eric’ Thiman, with Merle Gamble (soprano), Owen Bonifant. (tenor) and Chorus prepared bv Stanley Oliver, conducted by the composer at the organ : (NZBS)

10. 2 The Salomon Symphonies Symphony No, 104 in E Flat ("Drum Roll’) Haydn The Halle Orchestra conducted by Heward 10.30 Close down SX CHP ae 8. Oa.m. Music for a Christmas Morning, including carols by members of the Timaru Municipal Band (Studio) 9. Oo London Promenade Orchestra 9.30 Melodies You Know 10.15 Songs of Christmas 71. 0 Close down 6.30 p.m. Christmas for our Younger Listeners: Eleanor Steber and Blanche Ebeices with Chorus and Orchestra sing Carols and Holiday Songs (VOA); Princess Precious Pearl: A. Pantomime 7.30 The Christmas Child, a modern Nativity play in verse, by D. G. Bridson (BBC) 8.15 ZB Book Review (NZBS) 9. 4 The Morriston Boys’ Choir, with Maria Korchinska (harp) A Ceremony of Carols Britten 9.30 British Sport: Rugger, a feature by Tony van den Bergh, tracing the history of the game from the occasion in 1823 when William ‘Webb Ellis of Rugby School first took the ball in his arms and ran with it (BBC) 10. O Light Concert 10.30 Close down BY Arc S26 me 9.30 a.m. Christmas with the Crosbys 10. O Devotional Service 10.15.° Mistletoe Melodies and Mirth 11. 0 Morning Concert 12. 0 Dinner Music 2. O0Op.m A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens (BBC) 2.30 Seasonal Songs: Robert S, Shaw Chorale (VOA) 3. 0 Round the British Isles 3.50 Nutcracker Suite according to Spike Jones 4.15 The Christmas Child, a modern Nativity play .in verse, by D. G. Bridson (BBC) 5. 0 Children’s session: The Little White Donkey 5.30 Carols Around the World 6.45 Today’s the Day: Christmastide 7.45 The Nature of the Universe: A Personal View, by Fred Hoyle’. (BBC) 8.35 Christmas Workers, introducing some of the men and women who worked today , : 9.30 Four Christmases in N.Z., an historical feature concerning. the years 1642, 1769, 1795. and 1814, by Asquith M. Thomson. (NZBS) 10. 0 London Studio Concerts The Westminster Orchestra A Carol Symphony Hely-Hutchinson Noel : Gardiner (BBC) 10.30 Close down BY eon Seen 4 a.m. Your Favourite Carol Symphony No. 92 in G ("Oxford") aydn 10. 0. The Roval Melbourne Choir and the Victorian Symphony Orchestra Five Australian Carols (By courtesy of the ABC) 10.20 Devotional Service 10.38 First Piano Quartet (VOA) 11. 0 The Shepherds of Bethlehem: Music for Christmas, with the Alexandra Choir, Westminster Orchestra, Dorothy Bond (soprano) and Yoaur Anthony (bass) BC 11.35 Morning Star: Sydney MacEwan 12. 0 Luneh Musie 2. Op.m. Cricket: Plunket Shield, Otago vy. Canterbury-Secores and commentaries 4. 0 The Work Goes On, interviews with people whose work continues through Christmas Day (NZBS) 5. 0 ' From Stage and Screen 5.15 Children’s Session: Toytown-The Conversion of Mr; Growser (BBC) 7.0 .\UNITED CHRISTIAN SERVICE Trinity Methodist Church Service conducted by Rey. L. GreenSlade; Preacher: Rev. E. W. G. Batts

8.0 Mary Frazer and Doris Ramsay Thy Birthday is Come © © Bath-Howe Andante in F° . Bach-Soott Fantasia on Greensleeves Vaughan Williams-Foss Christmas Carols Fantasia Parke (Studio) 8.35 Dunedin’s One World Club, or the United Nations at Play, compiled from recordings made at a gathering of new New Zealanders, including Continental Folk Songs-and Christmas Greetings in German, Dutch and Latvian. (NZBS) 9.30 Christmas Day Variety Bandbox (BBC) 10.30 Close down ZNYC, DUNEDIN 900 ke. 333 m. 3.30 p.m. Classical Hour 4.30 Light Music 5. O Concert Hour 6. 0 7. 0 Dinner Music Chamber Music Artur Schnabel (piano) Prelude and Fugue in D Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor Baoh The Stradivarius String Quartet Theme Varie Paderewski The Budapest String Quartet Italian Serenade in G Wolt 7.30 Emmanuel, a Nativity play in verse and poetic prose, by James Forsyth (BBC) 8.55 Christmas Music The Philadelphia Orchestra Shepherd’s Christmas Music Bach Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), with Manoug Parikian (violin), Raymond Clarke (’cello), Sydney Sutcliffe (oboe), and Geraint Jones (organ), conducted by Peter Gellhorn .My Heart Ever .Faithful (Cantata No. 68) Bach The. London. Symphony Orchestra Concerto Grosso in G Minor (Christmas Concerto) Corelli Arthur Fiedler’s Sinfonietta Christmas Symphony Schiassi The Cantata Singers with the Jacques Orchestra Cantata No. 11: Praise Our God Bach 9.51 The London Symphony. Orchestra Symphony No. 86 in D Haydn 10.15 N.Z. Composers: Church Music The Christchurch Cathedral Choir conducted by C, Foster Browne Magnificat Nune Dimittus Galway Deus Miseratus Moresby In Bethlehem Street Browne (Words by Rev. J. R. Hervey) ’ (NZBS) -10.30 Close down QYVZ weneanaus 9. 3am. Mr. Pickwick’s Christmas, by Charles Dickens, narrated by Charles Laughton 9.18 The Salon Concert Players 9.30 The Festival of Nine Lessons and | Carols: Carols from the famous Festival | at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge + BBC) : 10. O Devotional Service 10.18 ° My Son, Tom 10.30 Memories of Home 11. 0 A Christmas Carol: The Charles Dickens story, featuring John Mills 14.30 Today’s the. Day:. Christmastide 92, 0 Christmas Menu 1.30p.m. London Forum: Sir Steuart Wilson, Professor Joad, Compton .Mackenzle and Gilbert Harding, discuss their attitude towards ibe. nies of Christmas co sie ; 2.0 1951’s Mnsical Film. Fare,..-. .3. 0 Hospital Patients’ Hour nine 4.30 The Young King, a story by. Osear Wilde (BBC) 5. 0 Children’s Hour: The Small: One, and King Wenceslas 5.30 Tunes of the Times 6.45 Holy Trinity Church Choir conduc- _ ted by S. W. Booth,- with Vernon Hill (organ) ° os ¥ | Christmas Carols. P » (from St. John’s Church) (NZBS) 6. 0 Anne. of Green Gables 0 Our. Christmas Card: A — seasonal = | ering from 4YZ’s artists and stalf 8. 0 Listeners’ Requests 9.30 8=The Nativity: A Sacred Cantata by | Eric Thiman, with Merle Gamble- (soprano), Owen Bonifant (tenor) and Chorus, prepared by Stanley Oliver, conducted by#the composer at the organ (N 4 10. & Music of Franz Schubert 10.30 Close down

Tuesday, December 25

Local Weather Forecast from ZB’s: 7.32 a.m., 12.59 p.m., 9.30 p.m.

Local Weather Forecast. from ZB’s: 7.32 a.m., 12.59 p.m., 9.30 p.m.

iGo ee 6. Oa.m. Merry Musical Mixture 7. 0 Christmas Carole 7.45 A Cowboy’s Christmas Story, with Gene Autry 8. 0 Relay from Children’s Hospital Wards 9. 0 Musical Box 9.45 We Travel the Friendly Road 10. 0 Santa Claus Reports 10.15 Family Album 10.30 The Oldest Christmas Story told by Charles Laughton 11. 0 Composer’s Christmas 11.30 Christmas Down Under: Immigrants Review their First N.Z. Christmas 12. O Hospital Requests 12.30 p.m. Christmas Messages from the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition 2.0 Mister Pickwick’s Christmas 2.30 Yuletide Favourites 3.0 Through the Years: Christmastide Reflections 3.45 Cricket: Plunket Shield, and West Indies v. Australia 4. 0 Yachtsmen’s Weather Forecast 4. 1 A Legend of Old Vienna: Music of Johann Strauss 4.30 Songs of Good Cheer 5. 0 Diggers’ Christmas Session (Rod Talbot) 5.30 Comedy Cartoon: The Ant Who Didn’t Like Work (BBC) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Cricket: Plunket Shield, and West Indies v. Australia . 6 Music for a Festive Occasion 6.30. A Christmas Carol, featuring Alec Guinness, John Mills, Jean Simmonds, in The Charles Dickens Classic 7. 0 Join in the Chorus 7.15 Cinderella (BBC) 8.15 Take It From Here (BBC) 8.45 Christmas with Murdoch and Horne ork 9. 0 ou’re Welcome, a Christmas Variety Show (NZBS) 10. 0 Play: The Dancing Partner (BBC) 10.30 Close down ZLB nn 6. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 8. 0 Carols and Choruses: The Royal Choral Society conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, and the Choir of Westminster Abbey conducted by Dr. William McKie 9.30 Music from the Ballet 10. 0 Santa Claus Reports 10.15 Glenda Raymond, the Westminster Singers and the Verdon Williams’ Concert Orchestra 11. 0 Tohaikovski Melodies 11.15 Star of the Morning: Richard Tucker 11.30 The Church in the Wildwood Choir, with Ted Malone ( 11.58 Report on the Distribution of Flowers for the Old Folk 12. 0 Christmas Lunch Session, introducing popular hits from last Christmas to today 12.30 p.m. Christmas Messages from the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition 1.0 Taik by the Rt, Rev. R. H. Owen, Bishop of Wellinaton 4. 6 Christmas Day Lunch Session 1.30 Christmas Inspired These 2.0 Programme Section Entertain: In- * troducing the people who bring you your programmes 2.30 Christmas Story 3.0 Celebrity Artists 8.30 English Folk Dances and Folk Songs: Recordings made under the auspices of the English Folk Dance and Story Society 3.45 Cricket: ‘Plunket Shield, and West Indies v. Australia 4. 0 Today’s the Day, a story of Christmas 4.30 Maori Melodies 5. 0 Strauss, Leharjy and Waldteufel 5.30 Comedy ba oF The Oporatic Cat EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Cricket: Plunket Shield, and West Indies v. Australia Sea Songs and Shanties 6.30 A Christmas Carol, featuring Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons and Margaret Lockwood i

4.0 A Song for the’ Old Folk Favourites with the World’s Outgp A Artists 7.15 Cinderella (BBC) 8.15 Take It From Were: Special Christmas Presentation (BBC) 8.45 Christmas with Murdoch and Horne 9. 0 You're Welcome (NZBS) 10. O The Man in Black: Markheim (BBC). 10.30 Close down 3ZB CHRISTCRURCH 1100 ke, 273 m. 6. Oa.m. The Bells Ring Out, It’s Christmas Morn 30 Christmas Stocking 0 In the Wake of the Waits 30 Music for Breakfast 0 Christmas on Record 0 Uncle Tom’s Christmas . 0 Santa Claus Reports OQ Hometown Choral Christmas 12. 0 Reversing the Greetings 12.30 p.m. Christmas Messages from the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition 2. 0 After Dinner Music 2.30 Let the People Sing 3. 0 Pages from Our 1951 Diary 3.45 Cricket: Plunket Shield, and West Indies v. Australia 3.50 A Crosby Christmas 22 0D "ao°* 3.3 5. 0 Children’s session with Grace 5.30 Comedy Cartoon: The Pied Piper (BBC) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Cricket: Plunket Shield and W. Indies v. Australia, followed by Christmas with the new New Zealanders 6.30 Christmas Carol, starring Alec Guinness, John Mills, Jean Simmons and Margaret Lockwood 7. 0 From Maori to Pakeha 7.15 Cinderella (BBC Pantomime) 8.15 Take it From Here: Christmas Edition (BBC) 8.45 Christmas with Murdoch and Horne (BBC) 9. 0 You’re Welcome: Variety Show (NZBS) 10. 0 Off Finisterre (BBC) 10.30 Close down 4ZB 1040 a m. 6. Oa.m. Start the Day Right 6.30 Morning Watch 7. 0 Tempo with Toast fe Christmas Carols for the Early ser 8. 0 Melody Mixture 9. 0 Selection: The Student Prince 9.30 Christmas Song and Story with the 4ZB Choristers 10. 0 Santa Claus Reports 10.15 By Request: Nelson Eddy 10.30 Carols by Candlelight 11. 0 New Releases 11.30 Today’s the Day : 12. 0 Hospital Requests 12.30 p.m. Christmas Messages from the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition With Father Christmas at the " Children’s Ward, Dunedin Hospital -30, Women’s Hour Christmas Programme 3.0 Do You Remember? Morton Gould 3.45 Cricket: Plunket Shield, and West Indies v. Australia 3.50 Songs of Vienna 3 4.0 Outstanding Broadcasts of 1951 4.30 In Tune with the Times 4.45 Mary Martin Sings for You 5. 0 Continental Corner 5.30 Comedy Cartoon: The Improvident Squirrel (BBC) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Cricket: Plunket Shield, and West Indies v. Australia Christmes Greetings from 4ZB’s Past Personalities 6.30 A Christmas Carol, featuring Alec Guinness, John Mills, Jean Simmons and Margaret Lockwood . 0 Christmas Time in Holland 7.15 4ZB’s Pantomime: Cinderella 7.45 4ZB Christmas Concert (Studio) 8.15 Take It From Here; ven Christmas Show. (BBC

8.45 Christmas with Murdoch and Horne (BBC) 9. 0 You’re Welcome (NZBS) 10. 0 Dramatic Play: Two’s a Pair (BBC) 10.30 Close down 272 PALMERSTON Nth. 240 ke, 319 m. 7. OQa.m. Carols for Today 7.20 Children’s Playtime 7.32 Local Weather Forecast 9. 0 Father Christmas Visits the Studio 9.30 Arrival of Father Christmas at Children’s Ward at the Public Hospital 10. 0 Santa Claus Reports 10.15 Music of the Ballet 10.30 Gems of Light Opera 11.0 An Hour with Melachrino, Mario Lanza, Eileen Joyce and the Luton Girls’ Choir 12. 0 Hospital Request session 12.30 p.m. Christmas Messages from the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition 2.0 Carolina Christmas, a talk by Jay von ic 2.45 atinee from Our Overseas Library -6©3.45 Cricket: Plunket Shield, and West | Indies v. Australia 65.0 Light and Bright 5.30 Comedy Cartoon: The Improvident Squirrel (BBC) EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Cricket: Plunket Shield and W. Indies v. Australia

6. 6 6.15 Shaw 6.30 Musical Fruit Salad A Maori Yuletide, narrated by Kate (Studio) A Christmas Carol: Alec Guinness as Scrooge, John Mills as narrator, and Jean Simmons, Margaret Lockwood and other film stars Songs of the Homeland Cinderella (BBC) Take it From Here (BBC) Christmas with Murdoch and Horne (BBC) You’re Welcome (NZBS) The Man in Black: The Judge’s House (BBC) 10.30 Close down

Jay Young is a youthful American from Carolina, at present residing in Palmerston North. His version of a "Carolina Christmas" will be heard from 2ZA at 2 o'clock, * % Pa "Christmas Greetings from 4ZB’s Past Personalities" may be heard at 6.0 tonight. This features greetings from well-known personalities who have moved to other centres in N.Z. and overseas. * * * At 2 o'clock, 2ZB will present a group of talented people who work behind "the voice" which brings you your daily programmes. At 2 o'clock the programme department are to entertain you--so stand by for something quite unique.