Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 2, 1950

For the week starting Friday, Dec. 30. Times are E.S.T., subject to change.

Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Gounod’s Faust.

Boys’ Town, Italy (Sat. 2:30 p.m., NBC). Speaker: Premier de Gasperi.

NBC Theater (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations.

New York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Soloist: Oscar Levant.

Exit ’49 (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC-TV). Films of the year’s outstanding news events.

Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Scarlet Pimpernel, with Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer.

Bowl Football Games: Santa Clara v. Kentucky (Mon. 1:45 p.m., CBS); North Carolina v. Rice (Mon. 2 p.m., NBC); Oklahoma v. L.S.U. (Mon. 2:30 p.m., ABC); Ohio State v. California (Mon. 4:45 p.m., CBS).

Voice of Firestone (Mon. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist: Eleanor Steber.