30 DECEMBER 1949, page 14

Radio

1 WONDER occasionally how much of the B.B.C.'s sweetness is wasted on the desert air. At Christmas-time, for instance, how many other claims there are on an ordinary man's......

Music

SADLER'S WELLS has added a new fairy-story ballet, as well as Hansel and Gretel. to its Christmas repertory. Beauty and the Beast is a pas de deux danced to Ravel's Mother Goose......