Listings
: Five to Ten
A story, a hymn, and a prayer: NICK OLSON
at the BBC theatre organ: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Birmingham HippodromeOrchestra
Conductor, Frank Hagley
Contributors
: PIANO PLAYTIME
Joe Saye at the piano: LOU PREAGER
and his Orchestra with Paul Rich' Rusty ' Hurren, Jimmy Mayers and the Sunspots
Contributors
: JOSEPH MUSCANT
and his Orchestra: Concert Hour BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )Conductor, Ian Whyte
Contributors
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
for children under five: BREAK FOR SUMMER
Woman's Hour becomes Everybody's HourIn this programme for the holiday season you hear:
' At the Villa Rose ' : a novel by A. E. W. Mason , abridged by Audrey Lucas , read in serial form by David Garth
' I Like This': records chosen by a Woman's Hour personality
This week, Ruth Drew
' Old Folks' Corner': a place of their own for the over sixty-fives
Presented by Stuart Hibberd and Richard Tatlock
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Contributors
: Melody Mixture
A programme of light music arranged and played by Jack Byfield and his Players with Frederic Curzon at the organ and Olga Gwynne (soprano)Contributors
: NORMAN BRIGGS
at the BBC theatre organ: CALLENDER'S CABLE WORKS BAND
Conductor, C. A. Waters: THE KURSAAL ORCHESTRA
Directed by Louis Voss with Gerald Young (accordion)Contributors
: ERIC WINSTONE
and his Orchestra with Colin PrinceJune Mariow Elizabeth Batey , Michael Holliday
The Highwaymen and the Stagecoachers
Contributors
: The Archers
Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.A story of country folk.
Contributors
: Sport
including cricket close of play scores: THE NAME'S THE SAME
A parlour game in which a panel of experts tries to discover the name of visitors to the studio who bear the same name as famous peopleThe Panel:
Frances Day, Phyllis Cradock Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Chairman, Raymond Glendenning
Contributors
: Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warriss in THE FORCES SHOW
with Betty DriverCan You Beat ... Pharos and Marina
Those Amazing Australians
The Dargie Quintet
Forces Quiz with Michael Miles
The Blonde Bombshell of the Keyboard Dolores Ventura
Woolf Phillips and the Skyrockets Orchestra
Script by Ronnie Hanbury and George Wadmore
Produced by Jacques Brown
Contributors
: THE IMMORTAL BOHEMIAN
The music and life of Giaoomo Puccini in four episodes written and arranged by Spike Hughes4—'Winter'with James McKechnie as Puccini and Gladys Young as Elvira
Produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith
Contributors
: STANLEY BLACK
and his Orchestra with Martin Moreno and Monty NormanContributors
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
'Captain Jan' by Jan de Hartog(above) to be read in fifteen instalments
Reader, Eric Phillips
2—'The Voyage Out'
Contributors
: THE SOUTH SEA SERENADERS
Directed by Ernest Penfold with George BarclayContributors
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