BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert)
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
(BBC recording)
Forecast for land areas.
An up-to-the-minute guide for your listening and viewing.
A breakfast-time magazine bringing you news, views, and interviews.
followed by
Morning Music
See Light Programme
Bible reading and comment by the Rev. G. W. H. Lampe.
Forecast for land areas.
A bulletin of food news to guide the household shopper.
(BBC recording)
Francis Loring (baritone), Paul Hamburger (piano)
Records of 'The Swan of Tuonela' and the Seventh Symphony.
Ian Stewart and his Quintet
Julia Shelley (soprano), John Holmes (bass), The Cranford Singers
London Salon Orchestra
Conducted by James Turner
The programme introduced by Colin Doran.
(BBC recording)
(John Holmes broadcasts by permission of Glyndebourne Opera)
Roy Clark leads an exchange of stories and talk about ships and the sea.
between
Bob Roberts, sailing barge skipper from Pin Mill, Suffolk
Cecil Meadows, one-time ship's chandler in Lowestoft
Fred Grice, old Lowestoft smacksman and collier brig shellback
Taff Finley, ex petty-officer telegraphist from Norwich
(The recorded broadcast of February 20. 1957, in the Midland Home Service)
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead)
Conducted by George Hurst
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region.
A sound recording of Sunday's television programme.
Barbara Wootton, Dame Katharine Elliot, Lord Stansgate, The Duke of Devonshire
Question-Master, Michael Flanders
Questions should be addressed to 'The Brains Trust', [address removed]
provided by Ron Goodwin and his Concert Orchestra.
(BBC recording)
Reports from Britain and overseas including a report on the Commonwealth Games in Cardiff.
by P. C. Wren.
freely adapted from the novel as a serial in ten episodes by Lester Powell.
[Starring] Simon Lack
(The recorded broadcast of December 15, 1957, in the Light Programme)
plays some of his own piano music on a gramophone record.
A sound approach to the cinema.
(Sunday's recorded broadcast in the Light Programme)
Birds of a Feather: 5 - The Pet Kestrel
Five tales of wild bird life by H. Mortimer Batten.
told by Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac).
5.15 The Green Sailors: 1: Learning the Ropes
A holiday serial in four instalments by Gilbert Hackforth-Jones.
'I've called the story of our sailing holiday The Green Sailors, because Green is our family name, and Uncle George, whose boat we went in, said we were the greenest sailors that had ever set foot aboard the Rag Doll'. (Mary Green)
(A new production of the programme first broadcast in September 1950; BBC recording)
Forecast for land areas, followed by a detailed forecast for the South-East region.
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.
Remind you of what?
Roy Plomley invites a reply from Jean Metcalfe, Antonia Ridge, Michael Flanders,
Lionel Hale, Michael Pertwee, Wilfrid Thomas.
(BBC recording)
(Michael Flanders is appearing in 'At the Drop of a Hat' at the Fortune Theatre, London)
followed by late weather forecast for land areas.
