Listings
: Housewives' Choice
Peter Sinclair introduces your request recordsContributors
: Five to Ten
A story, a hymn, and a prayer: VIC HAMMETT
at the BBC theatre organ: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Falkman and his Apache Band: JOHNNIE GRAY
and his Band with Jean Campbell and David CareyContributors
: MORNING STORY
' Modern Magic,' by Janet SwaineRead by Rolf Lefebvre
Contributors
: Concert Hour BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )Conducted. by Alexander Gibson
Contributors
: SOUVENIRS OF MUSIC
. BBC Variety OrchestraConductor, Paul Fenoulhet with Olga Gwynne
Contributors
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
Today's story:' Loofah,' by Rosamund Marshall told by Julia Lang
Contributors
: WOMAN'S HOUR
including:All Right on the Night: John Bourne offers some hints to amateur actors and producers
(Continued in next column)
My Book of the Year: three speakers well known to Woman's Hour discuss and recommend some books they have enjoyed in 1953 People I've Known, by Leslie Paul. 3-The Schoolmaster
Sew Like a Pro.: Alice Hooper Beck gives a series of talks on taking the ' home-made' look out of dressmaking. 4-All about the skirt, including placket and hem
Serial: The Franchise Affair' by Josephine Tey
Abridged by Honor Wyatt
Read by James McKechnie
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
Contributors
: TROISE
and his MandoliersAshley Crawford (tenor)
(Continued in next column)
Contributors
: MRS. DALE'S DIARY
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her familyScript by Joan Carr-Jone *
Contributors
: RENDEZVOUS
Commonwealth artists entertain featuringJohn Hauxvell , Eve Boswell
Shirley Abioair , Alan Rowe
BBC Revue Orchestra (Leader, David Paget )
Conductor. Harry Rabinowitz
Introduced by Aidan MacDermot
Produced by David Miller
Contributors
: SYDNEY GUSTARD
at the BBC theatre organ: GUY MITCHELL
on gramophone records: UNDER-20 PARADE
A slice of life presented for family listening by comperes and commentators of the Younger GenerationThe World at Your Finger Tips
Alan Whybrow, a young radio amateur (a ' ham '), introduces his hobby and, over a transmitter, calls up some of his friends overseas
Club with the Party Spirit
Jennifer Gilbert invites you to eavesdrop on the music and dancing at the Shoreham (Sussex) Country Dance Group
(BBC recordiing)
Top of the Ladder: Table Tennis
Terry Green meets Johnny Leach (twice World Champion, and member of the Swaythling Cup team) acroas the table tenmis table in his London youth club. Afterwards they compare notes on the game
(Continued in next column)
Straight from the Shoulder
Comments and views of the younger generation expressed in the letters you write to Parade, with a dramatised problem scene on which we ask your personal opinion
: The Archers
Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.A story of country folk.
Contributors
: Wilfred Pickles invites you to join him in his ' spot of homely fun 'HAVE A GO!'
From The Miners' Welfare Hall, Chialet Colliery, Hersden, KentAt the piano, Harry Hudson
Presented by Stephen Williams
Contributors
: NIGHTS OFGLADNESS
A tribute to composers whose melodies have enriched the world of operetta, musical comedy, and revueWritten by Gale Pedrick
Introduced by ' The Man with the Opera Cloak'
Illustrated by scenes and music
(Continued in next column)
Chapter 6
The music of Herman DarewsM
Lionel Monckton George Gershwin with Gwen Catley
Arthur Richards
Joan Young Billie Baker
Dudley Rolph
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concent Orchestra (Leader, John Sharped
Conducted by Guy Daines
Musical adviser, Harold Neden
Produced by Douglas Moodie
Contributors
: FAMILY FAVOURITES
Tunes you have asked us to play. Including some records chosen by Service men and women overseas: THE NAME'S THE SAME
A parlour game in which a panel of experts tries to discover the names of visitors to the studio who bear the stme names as famous peopleThe Panel:
Frances Day
Phyllis Cnadock
Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Chairman, Raymond Glendenning
Produced by C. F. Meehan
Contributors
: ON THE BEAT
with the BBC Show BandPart I-Dance music
Directed by Cyril Stapleton with The Stargazers, Julie Dawn Bill McGuffie , Harold Smart
This week's guests:
The Ray Ellington Quartet
Stephane Grappelly and his Trio
Producer. Donald MacLean
Contributors
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
' The Struggles of Albert Woods ' by William CooperReader, Mark Dignam
12—' Professor A. Woods
Contributors
: ON THE BEAT
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