Listings
: Housewives' Choice
David Jacobs introduces your request recordsContributors
: Five to Ten
A story, a hymn, and a prayer: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
The Regent OrchestraConducted by John Thorpe
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: KEN MACKINTOSH
and his Orchestra with Kenny BardellIrene Miller , Gordon Langhorn and the Mackpies
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: DEAR SIR ...
A correspondence column of the air: Concert Hour BBC WELSH ORCHESTRA
(Leader, Philip Whiteway )Conducted by Arwel Hughes
David Lloyd (tenor)
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: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
A programme for children under fiveNursery rhymes, stories, and music
: WOMAN'S HOUR
A daily programme for women alt homeIntroduced by Jean Metcalfe and including :
Madame Teissier du Cros speaks from Paris
' Lots of Spots': several people with recent experience as mother, patient or doctor, offer useful information about common infectious diseases
(Continued in next column)
'For Your Information': Mary Neel talks about the forthcoming
Household Expenditure Enquiry
' Are Comics Comic?': a discussion on what children should read, and the influence of reading matter on the child's character
The speakers are Mrs. Enid Edwards, j.p., mother of two schoolboys: the Rev. Marcus Morris, editor of Eagle and Girl; Walter Treisman, a school teacher in the East End of London: and Mrs. Dorothy Pickles, J. P., journalist and lecturer, who is also in the chair
Serial: Vanity Fair ' by William Makepeace Thackeray. Abridged by Becky Cocking. Read by Ronald Simpson
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: ARTHUR BIRKBY
and his Octet: TERANCE CASEY
at the BBC theatre organ: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Harry Leader and his Band: MRS. DALE'S DIARY
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her familyScript by Jonquil Antony
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: SOUTHERN SERENADE
Music of the sunny south played by the Southern Serenade OrchestraDirected by Lou Whiteson
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: FAMILY FAVOURITES
Tunes you have asked us to play: The Archers
Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.A story of country folk.
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: Michael Redgrave in ' HORATIO HORNBLOWER
A radio serial based on the novels of C. S. Forester and adapted by Sheldon Stark and Philo HigleyEpisode 13
Other voices: Gerald Case
Music composed and conducted by Sidney Torch
Produced by Archie Campbell
Contributors
: FORCES ALL-STAR BILL
Presenting the best in Britain's show business to the Armed Forces serving overseasCompered this week by Bernard Braden with Joan Heal and Graham Stark
This week's guest stars:
Derek Roy , Jean Carson
Lee Lawrence , Eddie Calvert
The George Mitchell Glee Club
(Continued in next column)
Stanley Black Concert Orchestra
Calling All Stars
The Services are invited to request their favourite tunes and name the stars they wish to perform them
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
Contributors
: NIGHTS OF GLADNESS
A tribute to composers whose melodies in the past twenty-five years have enriched the world of musical comedy and operettaIntroduced by Eric Maschwitz and ' The First-Nighter '
Written by Gale Pedrick
10-The music of Jerome Kern , Noel Coward
Franz Lehar , Sigmund Romberg with Billie Baker , Lucille Graham
Bruce Trent , Dudley Rolph
Jan van der Gucht
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Produced by Michael North
' Nights of Gladness as first planned was to have lasted nine weeks — with equal air-time being devoted to the work of British, American, and Continental composers of theatre music. Listeners gave the series such a spontaneous welcome and the framework proved such an ideal means of showing the Concert Orchestra's quality, that the programmes will now continue well into March. One happy result is that the First-Nighter, who introduces the programmes with Kric Maschwitz, can now survey a much wider field and can return again to composers who deserve more than one isolated mention. It has been impossible, for ins-tance, so far to do full justice to Noel Coward or to Jerome Kern, so in tonigint's programme we are to be reminded of ' Conversation Piece ' in which the enchanting Yvonne Printempt played in English for rhe first time; and Kern's' Sunny.' We hear also music from Lelhar's Frederica,' which brought the international tenor, Joseph Hislop , back to his native Britain, and in which we welcomed a new star-Lea Seidl.
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: LET'S SETTLE FOR MUSIC
by Kenny Baker 's DozenIntroduced by Wilfred Thomas
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: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
' Barmy in Wonderland' by P. G. WodehouseReader, Richard Hurndall
12—' Sweet Socko '
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