Listings
: HOUSEWIVES' CHOICE
Edmundo RosIntroduces your request records
Contributors
: Five to Ten
A story, a hymn, and a prayer: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
The Promenade PlayersConductor, Sidney Bowman
Contributors
: News Summary followed by MORNING STORY
'Abdul the Dignified One' by Gibson SykesRead by Roger Delgado
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: BBC SCOTTISH VARIETY ORCHESTRA
(Leader, Jack Nugent )Conductor, Jack Leon
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: Concert Hour BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
(Leader, Reginald Stead )Conductor, John Hopkins
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: THE STARGAZERS* SONG SHOP
with Harold Smart his electric organ and rhythm groupProduced by Frank Hooper
Contributors
: 1.500 m. Shipping Forecast 247 m. and VHF
Record Interlude: LISTEN WITH MOTHER
Today's story: ' Teddy and the Bumpy Bus ' by Mary Stonevale , told by Daphne Oxenford.Contributors
: WOMAN'S HOUR
includingReading Your Letters: expressing the listeners' point of view
The Sow and the Coward: a recollection from Sibyl Gordon Fathers
Cookery Club: a meeting place for the exchange of ideas. Nell Heaton makes some suggestions for breakfast dishes, and listeners comment on last month's five-shilling meals.
Looking at the News: a commentary on current affairs
Serial: 'The Dead Secret' by Wilkie Collins
Abridged by Becky Cocking
Read by Derek Hart
The fourth of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
Contributors
: News Summary followed by SIDNEY DAVEY
and his PlayersIrene Palmer (soprano)
Desmond Ainsworth (baritone)
Contributors
: MRS. DALE'S DIARY
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her familyScript by Jonquil Antony
Contributors
: THE SILVER LINING
A message of comfort and cheer for all ' in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness or any other adversity'Stuart Hibberd introduces a talk by the Rev. Geoffrey Treglown
Listeners' letters are very welcome, as they give real help in planning these talks. Send them to Stuart Hibberd, c/o Silver Lining, Broadcasting House, London, W. Listeners will realise that speakers cannot reply personally, but will try to deal with their problems in the talks.
Contributors
: STAGE AND SCREEN
Music from theatre and films played by the BBC West of EnglandLight Orchestra
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon ) Conductor, Frank Cantell
Contributors
: MIDSUMMER IN JAPAN
Geoffrey Bownas describes a three- hundred-and- fifty-mile journey along the old Eastern Sea Highway from Tokyo to Osaka, and introduces recordings he made at three of the great Summer Festivals of JapanProduced by Harold Rogers
Contributors
: 1,560 m. Shipping Forecast 247 m. and VHF
Record Interlude: Vera Lynn presents RECORDS AT SIX
In which she introduces some old friends and some new ones on gramophone records: PARADE
A programme for family listening presented by members of the Younger GenerationIntroduced by Judith Lane
' I'd love to go there!'
Margaret Healey and John Cohen, with your holidays in mind, have found and will talk about some of those books that grip you and leave you longing to go and see the places for yourself.
All Yours
Michael Flanders gives the results of the last Younger Generation competition and sets another.
Contributors
: The Archers
A story of country folk.: ROUND BRITAIN QUIZ
London r. Northern IrelandRound 1
A series of five-round contests between London and the regions
London
Professor Denis Brogan
Hubert Phillips
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
Northern Ireland
James Boyce , Ronald Green
Quiz-Master,
Howard Marion-Crawford
Contributors
: Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon in LIFE WITH THE LYONS
13—' Danger is my Work ' with Barbara Lyon , Richard LyonDoris Rogers , Molly Weir
Richard Bellaers , Horace Percival
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Written by Bob Block
Ronnie Hanbury and Bebe Daniels
Production by Tom Ronald
Contributors
: ANY ANSWERS?
A radio correspondence column in which listeners add their comments to the views expressed in last Friday's 'Any Questions?'Introduced by Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Michael Bowen
Contributors
: Ted Ray in RAY'S A LAUGH
with Kitty BluettKenneth Connor , Pat Coombs
Laidman Browne
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet with music scored by Bob Sharpies
Script by Charles Hart and Bernard Botting
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont
Contributors
: THE AL READ SHOW
in which Al Read takes life as he finds it and invites you to share the fun with some friends from the world of music including The Kordites and the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra Conducted by Alyn AinsworthProduced by Ronnie Taylor
Contributors
: TAKE YOUR PARTNERS
for olde-tyme dancing with Sydney Thompson and his Old-Tyme OrchestraIntroduced by John Webster
Produced by Rex Burrows
Contributors
: A BOOK AT BEDTIME
'Dear Mad'm ' by Stella W. Patterson(to be read in twenty instalments)
Abridged by Eve Howland
Read by Gwen Day Burroughs
9— ' Do Cougars Have Toe-Nails?'
Contributors
: MOONLIGHT LULLABY
John Howlett at the organ of the Odeon, Leicester Square, LondonContributors
: Close Down
followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m. onlyAbout this project
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