Listings
: Housewives' Choice
George Elrick introduces your request recordsContributors
: Five to Ten
A Story, a hymn, and a prayer: NELSON ELMS
at the BBC theatre organ: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
FeMx King and his Orchestra: MUSIC ALBUM
BBC Welsh Orchestra(Leader,Philip Whiteway )
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
Contributors
: MORNING STORY
' Nap Retep 'A Story from Scotland for New Year's Day by John Keir Cross told by Willie Joss
Contributors
: CRESWELL COLLIERY BAND
Conducted by George Hespe with George Allen (bass-baritone)Contributors
: Concert Hour BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
(Leader, Reginald Stead )Conducted by Vilem Tausky
Contributors
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
A programme for children under fiveToday's story: ' New Year's Eve ' by Ann Elliott , told by Dorothy Smith
Contributors
: WOMAN'S HOUR
Janet Teissier du Cros speaking from Paris.New Year's Day: Fred Bason , the well-known diarist, makes his resolutions for the New Year
Grandma's New Year Resolutions. An episode in the life of the Buggins family, by Mabel Con standuros
Behind the Headlines: a weekly feature to fill in the background to some recent news events
Serial:
' The Gipsy in the Parlour ' by Margery Sharp
Abridged by Barbara Henderson
Read by Patience Collier
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson
Contributors
: KEN MACKINTOSH
and his Orchestra with Patti ForbesKenny Bardelland Gordon Langhorn and the Mackpies
Contributors
: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
The Richard Crean Orchestra: AT YOUR REQUEST
The music you have asked for introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organContributors
: GEORGE EVANS
and his Dance Orchestra with Ivy Barnes: JUST A YEAR AGO
Lionel Gamlin looks through the BBC Recorded ProgrammesDiary for 1953 and invites you to listen again to some of the broadcasts that took place during thy week last year
Produced by Phyllis Robinson
Contributors
: FAMILY FAVOURITES
Tunes you have asked us to play, including some records chosen by Service men and women overseas: The Archers
Written by Edward J. Mason and Geoffrey Webb.A story of country folk.
Contributors
: Ted Ray in ' RAY'S A LAUGH'
with Kitty Bluett , Peter SellersPatricia Hayes , Charles Hawtrey
Kenneth Connor
Contributors
: CAMPOLI (violin)
on gramophone records: ANY QUESTIONS ?
Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by: A. G. Street , Jack LonglandGraham Hutton , Collin Brooks
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Michael Bowen
From the Docks Canteen,
Southampton
Contributors
: FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT
A musical enterbainment for the end of the weekVictoria Campbell and John Hanson with the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conducted by Sidney Torch
Stanley Riley and the BBC Men's Chorus
Conducted by Cyril Gell with Frederick Stone at the piano
Band of the Scots Guards
Conducted by Lieut.-Col. S. Rhodes, M.B.E.
Director of Music
Introduced by Philip Slessor
Produced by Campbell Ricketts
Contributors
: BBC BALLROOM
Part 1Ted Heath and his Music with Lita Roza
Dennis Lotis , and Dickie Valentine and Francisco Cavez and his Latin-American Rhythm with Ronnie Harris
Contributors
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
' The Round Dozen ' by Somerset Maugham(to be read in four instalments)
Reader, Carleton Hobbs
4—' The Last Romance '
Contributors
: BBC BALLROOM
Part 2Cabaret:
Eddie Calvert
Everybody Dance!
Master of Ceremonies,
Paul Carpenter
Produced by John Hooper
Contributors
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