Listings
: Housewives' Choice
John Merrett introduces your request recordsContributors
: Five to Ten
A story, a hymn, and a prayer: CHARLES SMITTON
at the BBC theatre organ: TOTTENHAM CITADEL SALVATION ARMY BAND
Conducted by Colonel A. H. JakewayContributors
: Concert Hour BBC MIDLAND ORCHESTRA
(Leader, Ernest Element)Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Contributors
: CRICKET
England v. South AfricaSecond Test Match: Last Day
Commentaries by Rex Alston , John Arlott , and Charles Fortune ; summaries by E. W. Swanton
From Lord's
Contributors
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
A programme for children under fiveToday's story: 'The Crane that Lifted the Boiler Off ' by Eric Harri son, told by Julia Lang
Contributors
: WOMAN'S HOUR
including:(Strange Dwellings': ': Nights on a plant-hunting trip in Manipur recalled by Jean Kingdon-Ward
(1 don't know whether to let them go ': Dan Wilson , warden of a youth hostel, gives advice to mothers whose children want to go on a walking or cycling holiday.
Minnie Pallister talking
These Women Drivers!: one of them, Ba Mason, speaks from her own experience
Conversation with my daughter: Macdonald Hastings lets us eavesdrop on a bathroom scene
Serial:
'Trial by Sasswood' by Esther Warner
Abridged by Terry Gompertz
Read by Grizelda Hervey
The twelfth of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
Contributors
: Music While You Work
Royal Artillery Mounted BandConducted by Capt. Basil H. Brown
Director of Music
Contributors
: DOUGLAS REEVE
at the organ of the Dome, Brighton: p.mNEW SOUNDS
Dance music on records played by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra: CRICKET
England v. South AfricaSecond Test Match: Last Day
Further commentary and THE LAWN TENNIS
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Latest results and commentary by Max Robertson and Raymond Glendenning
From the All England Club.
Wimbledon
Contributors
: CALLING ALL SPORTSMEN
An up-to-the-minute round-up of events and personalities-at home and abroad-ranging from:Angling to Athletics
Bowls to Boxing
Bat and Trap to Billiards
Rowing to Racing with latest news of sport of the day
Introduced by Cliff Michelmore
Contributors
: The Archers
A story of country folk.: FAMILY FAVOURITES
Tunes you have asked us to play, including some records chosen by Service men and women overseas: NIGHTS OF GLADNESS
A personal choice of popular music that has brought happiness over the years toMargaret Lockwood who introduces the programme with Adrienne Cole
Laurie Payne BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
London Theatre Orchestra
(Leader, Sidney Sax)
Conducted by Mark Lubbock
Programme written by Roy Plomley
Produced by Michael North
Contributors
: Robert Eddison in DEAD CIRCUIT'
A serial play for radio by Elleston TrevorAdapted from the novel by Simon Rattray
5-' Platform Three '
In which Hugo Bishop escapes death and a body disappears ...
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Michael Turner. Peter Claughton
Jeffrey Segal , Edgar Norfolk
Edward Jewesbury. T. St. John Barry
Production by Audrey Cameron
Contributors
: Tony Hancock with Bill Kerr. Sidney James and Andree Melly in HANCOCK'S HALF-HOUR
also featuring Kenneth WilliamsThe ' Hancock Theme ' and other incidental music composed by Wally Stott
The Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor. Harry Rabinowitz
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
Contributors
: CRICKET
England v. South AfricaSummary by John Arlott
THE LAWN TENNIS
CHAMPIONSHIPS
Report by Max Robertson
Contributors
: THE COUNTRYSIDE IN JUNE
A monthly programme reflecting life in the countryDavid Lloyd James and Eric Simms introduce personalities to talk about happenings in the countryside. The programme also includes recordings of June countryside sounds
Produced by Arthur Phillips
Contributors
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
'The Regent's Candlesticks' by Elisabeth KyleRead by Felix Felton
Abridged by Jane Bowness
7—' The Sanatorium Lobnitz '
Contributors
: BBC SWING SESSION
with Ted Heath and his MusicKathy Lloyd
Bobbie Britton , Peter Lowe
' On the Beat'
Johnny Dankworth with the Keith Christie Quartet and the Allan Ganley Group
Introduced by Alan Dell
Produced by John Hooper
Contributors
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