Listings
: Housewives' Choice
George Elrick introduces your request recordsContributors
: Five to Ten
A story, a hymn, and a prayer: MORNING STORY
'The Shell' by Modwena SedgwlcKRead by Betty Hardy
Contributors
: The Regimental Band and the Massed Pipers of THE SCOTS GUARDS
Director of Music,Lieut.-Col. S. Rhodes , M.B.E.
Pipe-Majors : J. S. Roe , B.E.M. and R. Crabb , B.E.M. on gramophone records
Contributors
: MELODY ON THE LINE
A programme of dance music with Les Howard , Norman George and the Dance Section of the BBC Northern Variety OrchestraConducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Presented by Geoffrey Wheeler
Contributors
: Concert Hour BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
(Leader. Reginald Stead)Conductor, John Hopkins
Overture:
Contributors
: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
A programme for children under fiveToday's story: 'Shirley's Kittens' by Joan E. Cass , told by Dorothy Smith
Contributors
: WOMAN'S HOUR
including:Guest of the Week:
Lieut.-General
Sir Reginald Denning ,
K.B.E., C.B.
Chairman of the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association
Kaye Webb reopens her diary
The Unseasoned Traveller: Dorothy Cooper-Willis talks about a visit to San Francisco Shopping Talk or Talking Shop:
Antonia Ridge and Ruth Drew
Serial:
'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by Derek Hart
13—'The Secret of Welmlngham Church'
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
Contributors
: PERSONALLY PRESENTED
Frank Cantell introduces a programme of music played under his direction by the BBC West of EnglandLight Orchestra
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon )
With
Sylvia Rowlands (contralto)
Contributors
: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
The Promenade PlayersConductor, Sidney Bowman
Contributors
: MRS. DALE'S DIARY
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her familyScript by Patricia Rowan
Contributors
: FRANCISCO CAVEZ
and hisLatin-American Rhythm with Stuart Gordon
Contributors
: Music of the Masters BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )Conducted by Gerald Gentry
Contributors
: Dennis Lotis presents THE SONG'S THE THING
with his own hit records of popular songs: MUSIC CLUB
Chairman, John WebsterA weekly gathering of Younger Generation enthusiasts making or discussing music
This week the Chairman introduce* recordings of two young musicians from Northumberland: Alexandra Barrass , who plays the violin, and John Hepple who at the age of eighteen is already an expert on the Northumbrian pipes
Contributors
: The Archers
Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.A story of country folk.
Contributors
: News and Radio Newsreel
followed by: HOW DO YOU DO?
An informal get-together of Commonwealth artists with Kitty BluettHarry Rabinowitz
Patti Lewis
Roland Peachey
Ormonde Douglas
BBC Revue Orchestra (Leader, David Paget )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowits
Introduced by Carroll Levis
Produced by John Hooper
Contributors
: HANCOCK'S HALF-HOUR
featuring ' the lad 'imself' with Bill KerrSidney James , Andree Melly and Kenneth Williams
Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott and recorded by the Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Harry Rabinowitz
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Galton
Produced by Dennis Main Wilson
Contributors
: Curtain Up! presents The Stars in Their Choices Ralph Truman in 'LIFE WITH FATHER'
See columns 2 and 3 and ' Drama Diary' on page 5: THE MONTE CARLO RALLY
Third NightAs all competitors pass through the Paris Control, Raymond Baxter sends his impressions of the day's motoring. Ahead of him, at Sens, Robin Richards forecasts what may lie ahead in the mountains. Brian Johnston introduces these recorded reports from London
(The broadcasts from France made in co-operation with Radiodiffusion-Television Franchise)
Contributors
: FOUR BAND SESSION
with Paul Weston and his Orchestra Harry James and his OrchestraWoody Herman and his Orchestra and Les Brown and his Orchestra on gramophone records
Contributors
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
' It's Different in July' by Kevin Fitzgerald(to be read in flfieen instalments)
Abridged by Barbara Henderson
Read by Valentine Dyall
3—' Beer for the Ancient'
Contributors
: AT THE END OF THE DAY
A musical entertainment for late evening given by Gitta LindWolfgang Marschner (violin) and Wilhelm Heuhaus (piano)
The Cologne
Dance and Concert Orchestra
Conducted by Adalbert Luczkowski
Contributors
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