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DUDLEY SAVAGE at the organ of the ABC Theatre in Plymouth and BURTON CONSTRUCTIONAL NEWHALL BAND conductor ERNEST WOODHOUSE with music requested for patients in hospital or at home Producer IAN CARSON
Alec Taylor visits children's choirs all over Britain in search of songs and hymns for Sunday morning. This week: Patchway High School for Boys and Red Maids' Girls' School, Bristol
Producer PETER FIRTH BBC Bristol
introduces Melodies for You BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA conducted by MICHAEL MOORES
THE REGINALD LEOPOLD ORCHESTRA With JOHN HEDDLE NASH Producer PETER BELL
on the theme of Mistakes led by REV DR EDMUND JONES from the Aberdeen studios
2: Helping our children through their mistakes Producer DOUGLAS AITKEN BBC Scotland
Introduced by Jean Challis MICHAEL BAGULEY
BBC Northern Ireland
ANDREW PASTOUNA , BFBS Cologne JUNE ARMSTRONG-WRIGHT , Radio and TV Hong Kong
STEVE cosser , ABC Sydney Producer PAM cox
(3 October: Belfast, BFBS Cologne, Hong Kong and Australia)
Written and adapted by EDDIE BRABEN with Gayle Hunnicutt Richard Caldicot and April Walker
Music from SYD LAWRENCE
AND HIS ORCHESTRA
With ROY MARSDEN , SUE ADAMS and THE SERENADERS
Producer JOHN BROWELL
(Repeated: Saturday 7.2 pm 1500m, and 202m Scotland)
A celebration of 50 years of film musicals.
13: An American in Hollywood ' The musicals from MGM were big moneymakers and that's the reason they let us try doing new things, we kept hitting the jackpot for them. I think it became a repertory company in the best sense of the word. and we did change the history of the musical, that's for sure.' (GENE KELLY)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr continues the Gene Kelly Story into the 1950s, the decade of his greatest triumphs. Also taking part:
SAUL CHAPLIN , BETTY COMDEN ADOLPH GREEN, HOWARD KEEL
GENE KELLY, ALAN J. LERNER and DONALD O'CONNOR. Written by BENNY GREEN . Producers JOHN BILLINGHAM and MEL BOUSE
says Thanks for the Memory Producer PHYLLIS ROBINSON
(Hubert Gregg is in ' While the Sun Shines ' at the King's Theatre, Southsea)
with your Sunday Soapbox Producer DAVID WELSBY BBC Birmingham
Including at 5.2 Cricket: the teatime scores in today's John Player League games.
Frank Chacksfield conducts the BBC RADIO ORCHESTRA and introduces this week's guest: MARY O'HARA
Producer ROYSTON HERBERT
from Frome Wesley Methodist Church, with the united choirs of the area
Introduced by JEREMY CARRAD Conductor VAL GREGORY Organist tom WILLIAMSON Prayer and Blessing by REV JOHN FISHER
Alleluya! sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol); Sing hosanna: My God, how wonderful thou art (Westminster); Little David play on your harp (trad, arr by Sebastian Brown ); I heard the voice of Jesus say (Vox Dilecti; My heart and voice I raise; On the Willows (God-spell): Glory to thee, my God, this night (Tallis Canon ); Crown him with many crowns (Diademata) BBC Bristol
Introduced by Alan Keith Producer JACK DABBS
BBC MIDLAND RADIO ORCHESTRA conductor NORRIE PARAMOR THE ROYAL DOULTON BAND conductor EDWARD GRAY Introduced by James Alexander Gordon Producer ALLAN GILES
Peter Clayton with news, reviews and comment
With Ronnie Ross Quartet, Bob Wallis and his Storyville Jazzmen.
Including at 12.0 Midnight Newsroom; weather; motoring information