Band of the Coldstream Guards
Conducted by Captain Douglas A. Pope
Director of Music

and forecast for farmers and shipping

A gramophone miscellany

A talk by Hugh Redwood

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Philip Green and his Concert Orchestra

(Leader, Norman George )
Conducted by Vilem Tausky with Les Howard

0 Lord our God, arise (BBC Hymn
Book 25)
New Every Morning, page 61 Canticle 7 (Broadcast Psalter) 1 John 2, vv. 1-11 and 15-17 Hills of the North, rejoice (BBC
Hymn Book 33)

Falkman and his Apache Band

(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins

and forecast for farmers and shipping

Helsinki 1952
His Excellency the President of Finland opens the Games at the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki
The ceremony also includes
An address of welcome by the President of the Organising Committee
21-gun salute
Arrival of the Olympic Flame and the lighting of the Olympic Fire
The Olympic Anthem performed by the massed choirs and band
Scene described by Rex Alston

Lunchtime scoreboard

Introduced by Charlie Chester and Tony Hancock
Mr. Music Master
Tommy Reilly
Your Request Favourite
Bernard Braden

by George Godwin
Plays produced by Cleland Finn

' Philippa and the Philosopher's Stone '
A play by William Harris
Production by May Jenkin followed by 'Weather Ships of the North Atlantic': talk by Robson Black

Shipping and general weather forecasts, followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England

News of the opening ceremony, including recordings
From the Broadcasting Centre at the Olympic Stadium, Helsinki

W. S. Shepherd M.P. ,, gives his impressions of what he heard and saw in Parliament

Morton Fraser and his Harmonica Gang
Bob Andrews
Helen Clare and Ivor Dennis
Morris and Cowley Martin Lukins
Ethel Revnell
Josef Locke
Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Home
Introduced by Bill Gates
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Robert Busby Produced by C. F. Meehan

by Dorothy Blewett
Adapted for broadcasting by Lynn Foster
Cast in order of speaking
Production by Ayton Whitaker