Listings
: Third Test Match AUSTRALIA v. ENGLAND
Commentary during the last hour of the fourth day's play, followed by a summaryCommentators: Alan McGilvray Bernard Kerr , Charles Fortune
A. G. Moyes and Arthur Gilligan
From the Cricket Ground at Melbourne (A relay of the Australian Broadcasting Commission's transmission)
Contributors
: Five to Ten
A story, a hymn, and a prayer: REGINALD PORTER-BROWN
at the BBC theatre organSelection: Tunes of Yesterday and Today
: MORNING STORY
'Runaway' by Anton Delmar and Kenneth HaylesReader, Richard George
Contributors
: ONE THING AND ANOTHER
A record miscellany: SYDNEY LIPTON
and his Orchestra with Charles GranvilleJill Kinley , and Charles Young
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Contributors
: Concert Hour BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )Conducted by Gerald Gentry
Contributors
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
Today's story: 'The Christmas Mouse.' by Violet Statham , told by Dorothy Smith.Contributors
: WOMAN'S HOUR
includingA Blessed Escape: Betty Goodby describes a three-day holiday away from housework
Toothache in Tangier: Christopher Wanklyn relates an experience.
Looking at Pictures with Mervyn Levy. Six talks on the ideas that produced the great 'Isms' of Modern Art. 5-Surrealism
They Shall Build' Houses: Jo Harper describes how she and her husband lived in a bus while they were building a house
Serial: ' Joy in the Morning' by P. G. Wodehouse
Abridged by Barbara Henderson
Read by Ronald Simpson
The second of ten instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
For Women Readers-page 25
Contributors
: MICHAELOFF
and his Mazurka OrchestraGregori Tcherniak (balalaika) accompanied by Geoffrey Sisley (guitar)
Contributors
: Music While You Work
Band of the Royal Corps of SignalsConducted by Major John L. Judd ,
M.B.E. Birector of Music
Contributors
: Mrs. Dale's Diary
(To be repeated tomorrow at 11.0 a.m.): HAROLD COOMBS
at the BBC theatre organ(Harold Coombs is appearing at the Pavilion, Bournemouth)
Contributors
: The Younger Generation PARADE
in which its commentators suggest a few New Year resolutions with examples from:Lancaster: where members of the Red Rose Boys' Club hold weekly archery contests
Sundown: where nineteen-year-old Betty McCulloch is working her way towards a commercial pilot's licence
Chelmsford: where under-twenties are building their own club premises Scafell Pike : where at over 3,000 feet, a group of young climbers from Whitehaven district celebrated New Year's day with a campfire sing-song Doncaster: where an amateur film group are busy on their new production ' The Secret Trilby '
Musical comment from
Marie Abel and her Friends
Contributors
: Have a Go!
Wilfred Pickles in Have a Go! visits Papworth(The unique village settlement for T.B. sufferers and their families)
With Mabel at 'the table' and Harry Hudson at the piano.
(Home); Sunday at 11.0 a.m. (Light)
Contributors
: THE AL READ SHOW
in which Al Read takes life as he finds it and invites you to meetA famous guest
A highlight in music and The Kordites
The Augmented
Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Produced by Ronnie Taylor
(Al Read is appearing in 'Cinderella' at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool)
Contributors
: NIGHTS OF GLADNESS
The Joe Sacks StoryWritten and narrated by Moore Raymond with David Kossoff
Singers:
Iris Villiers
Billie Baker
Laurie Payne
Clarence Wright
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
Programme produced by Michael North
Joe Sacks could not read or write, yci he became one of the most important figures of London show business iusi after World War I. Tonight you hear how he made and lost a fortune by presenting some of the most famous stars and shows in the history of musical comedy. The Lilac Domino,' ' Going Up/ and ' Irene ' were among the great successes of ' Napoleon Joe Sacks ,' the first man to have six shows running in London at the same time.
Contributors
: Hancock's Half-Hour
Being a chronicle of the life and misadventures of Anthony Hancock, the celebrated waif.[Starring] Tony Hancock with Moira Lister, Bill Kerr and Sidney James
(Tony Hancock is appearing in "The Talk of the Town" at the Adelphi Theatre, London)
Contributors
: Come dance in the Gaucho Room of the BBC LATIN-AMERICAN BALLROOM
with Edmundo Ros and his BandLearn to dance the exotic rhythm of the mambo, samba, son-rumba, guracha, baion, and bolero mambo
Ballroom host, Edmundo Ros
Devised and presented by David Miller
Contributors
: A Book at Bedtime: The Riddle of Samson: 5: Enter the Inspector
by Andrew Garve(to be read in thirteen instalments)
Reader, David King-Wood
Abridger, Arthur Calder-Marshall
Contributors
: LATIN-AMERICAN BALLROOM
moves out of doors under the stars to find the music of the Hermanos DenizCuban Rhythm Band
: Weather Forecast Highlights
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