Charlie Katz and his Novelty Sextet
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Conductor, David Curry
From Many Lands
Talk by the Rev. F. Townley Lord , D.D.
2-Brazil called it beautiful
and forecast for farmers and shipping
Barbara Lane (soprano)
Esme Sanford
(mezzo-soprano and accompanist)
Donald Andrew (oboe)
Frederick Stone (piano)
by Henry Rhodes
Alphonse Bertillon is a name respected wherever criminologists congregate. This immaculate Frenchman was Chief of the Identity Department of the Paris Prefecture nearly fifty years ago. He invented the first good system of criminal identification, and Henry Rhodes tells listeners not only something of the man, but, using illustrations from the detective's own case-book, shows the kind of problems he was up against.
Records of keyboard concertos for one and two instruments
Phil Tate and his Orchestra
(Phil Tate and his Orchestra are appearing at the Hammersmith Palais, London)
and his Orchestre Moderne
Produced by Harold Rogers
Frank Weir invites you to listen to his selection of gramophone records
from the British Sailors' Society, East London
with Reg Darnley, Gloria Alton, Alma Cogan, Max Wall
James Moody (piano) Bert Weedon (guitar) Max Abrams (drums)
Presented by Bill Gates
(Alma Cogan is appearing in "Aladdin" at the Empire Theatre, Chiswick; Max Wall in "The Pajama Game" at the London Coliseum)
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
A spontaneous discussion by Mary Stocks
Denis Healey , M.P. Sir Miles Thomas
Gerald Nabarro , M.P.
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Michael Bowen
From the William Blake Memorial Hall,
South Petherton. Somerset
Orchestral Hour
(Leader, Philip Whiteway )
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Vivian Joseph (cello)
Their language of song; their unusual mating behaviour and the dominant sex; their curious method of propagation and the struggle of the young grasshopper for life.
Written and produced by Nesta Pain
Music specially composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins
by Charles Causley
' Don't go back to the Rock,' said a friend, ' you'll destroy all your illusions.' But Mr. Causley, who served in Gibraltar during the war, went just the same, and so met the Barber of Seville. Now he knows what colour the Rock is, too.
French Legends, Tales, and Fairy Stories
Retold by Barbara Leonie Picard
1-' The Ship that Sailed on Land'
Read by Eve
' A ship which will sail on the land! A ship which will sail on the land! ' said the magpie. And it flew away clacking, * A ship which will sail on the land! A ship which will sail on the land! '
(January Edition)
Here and There
General news by Alan Dixon London News by Nan Macdonald
Sports News by Kenneth Wolstenholme
This Month in Your Garden by Fred Loads
Countrywide Reports from Children's Newsreel Observers
Edited and introduced by John Musgrave
Shipping and general weather forecasts. followed by a detailed forecast for South-East England
with Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe , Spike Milligan
The Ray Ellington Quartet
Max Geldray
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott
Announcer, Wallace Greenslade
Script by Spike Milligan
Production by Peter Eton
A twice-weekly survey of current affairs
Speakers in the studio in London and from regional and overseas centres contribute news and views on the issues of today and tomorrow
by Henrik Boye on gramophone records
Sarabande d'amour (Buxtehude) La Capricciosa (Buxtehude) Gigue in D minor (Handel)
(All transcribed by Boye)
followed by late weather forecast for land areas