A Gala performance of some of the most memorable variety shows presented on the Light Programme during the past seven years.
Continuity by Edward J. Mason, Alan Stranks, and Eric Sykes
7.30 Brian Reece (P.C. 49) and Noel Johnson (Dick Barton) introduce Bebe Daniels, Vic Oliver and Ben Lyon in "Hi, Gang!"
with a guest star and Johnny Johnston and The Hi Gangsters
7.53 app. Eric Barker in "Waterlogged Spa"
with Pearl Hackney, Jon Pertwee, Richard Gray, Humphrey Lestocq, George Crow
8.15 app. "Riders of the Range"
A musical drama of the West with Paul Carpenter, Charles Irwin
Carole Carr, Bob Mallin, Alan Keith, Macdonald Parke, Guy Kingsley Poynter, Reed de Rouen and "Rustler"
8.37 app. "Ignorance is Bliss"
with the original trio of blockheads:
Harold Berens, Gladys Hay, Michael Moore
and their harassed quiz-master, Eamonn Andrews
9.0 app. Donald Peers
with Jack Golden at the piano
9.12 app. Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne in "Much-Binding-In-The-Marsh"
with Sam Costa, Diana Morrison and Maurice Denham
9.35 app. Variety Bandbox
Frankie Howerd, Derek Roy, Vanessa Lee, Semprini
Billy Ternent and his Orchestra
Introduced by Philip Slessor