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As we come into December, Russell presents a little sequence of winter-associated songs: Flanders & Swann's Song Of The Weather, Irving Berlin's I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm, and Ted Shapiro's I Love The Winter Weather, each with a different message.

Next up is a song that might have been more famous had it not shared honours in the film Holiday Inn with Irving Berlin's White Christmas. Be Careful, It's My Heart is sung by Frank Sinatra.

On this day 70 years ago, Enrico Fermi achieved the first nuclear chain reaction thus bringing about the Atomic Age. Two recordings mark this anniversary: The Golden Gate Quartet's Atom and Evil and, celebrating the Geiger counter, Doris Day with Tic Tic Tic. This song creates its own chain reaction from Gently Johnny, to Wooden Heart, to Hello Mary Lou.

Most of the rest of the show is devoted to songs composed by Brooklyn-born writers - and sung by Brooklynites, too - like Harry Nilsson with Sylvia Fine's Lullaby In Ragtime and Lena Horne with George Gershwin's The Man I Love.

The programme concludes with Daryl Sherman's version of The Japanese Sandman, to note her imminent departure for a long residency in Tokyo.