The Light Programme's Evening Out on the River

7.40 Journey Downstream Step aboard the launch 'Odelia' with Wynford Vaughan Thomas, and join his Canadian and Australian colleagues Capt. W.E.S. Briggs, R.C.N. (Rtd.) and Talbot Duckmanton in a trip down river to Greenwich, where the launch ties up alongside...

8.0 The Show Boat' staged on the L.C.C. paddle-steamer 'Will Crooks' at Greenwich Pier, manned by Jon Pertwee, Bob and Alf Pearson, Lee Lawrence, Freddie Sales, Dora Bryan, Julie Andrews, and Bernard Spear. Guests at the 'Greatest Show on Water' will be Max Miller and Rawicz and Landauer. Music by the Mitchell Mariners and Ray Terry's Crewmen, conducted by Phil Cardew. The show written by James Grafton, Peter Griffiths, John Vyvyan, and produced by Dennis Main Wilson.

9.30 'Palace of Varieties'
You are invited to travel a little inland to the Empire Memorial Hostel of the British Sailors Society in Commercial Road for a Coronation night celebration with Margery Manners, John Rorke, Sidney Burchall, Harry Levaine, and Hetty King. Rob Currie is Chairman and the show will be in the capable hands of Ernest Longstaffe.

10.0 Back to Broadcasting House for The News

10.15 River Revels From the Show Boat hung with bunting and lit with fairy lights, there is dancing to the music of Joe Loss and his Orchestra with Rose Brennan, Howard Jones, and Toni Venfro.

11.12 Wynford Vaughan Thomas says goodbye from the launch 'Odelia'