Your request records introduced this week by Roy Rich

by Mark Twain. Walter Allen talks about the famous American story of steamboat days on the Mississippi

Ena Baga at the organ of the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle

A talk about the great Finnish comPoser, by Hubert Clifford

Some cheerful music to accompany the mid-morning cup of tea. played by Fred Alexander and his Players

Dance music on gramophone records

Harold Coombs at the organ of the Regal Cinema, Bridlington
12.30 p.m. Bemie Fenton at the piano

Today's programme is contributed by the British Forces Network, Germany, and is played by the North-West German Radio Symphony Orchestra before a Forces audience

Central Band of the Royal Air Force (by permission of the Air Council), conducted by Flight Lieutenant A. E. Sims , M.B.F., Director of Music, Royal Air Force

on gramophone records

in a programme of uninterrupted music

A Hornblower story by C. S. Forester , abridged for broadcasting. Read by Alan Blair , in nineteen instalments. 4-' Hornblower Turns Surgeon '

First programme in the series ' This Had to Happen First.' illustrating the background to scientific discoveries. Script by Carl Lawton

at the piano, improvises on some of the tunes you ask to hear in the ' Family Favourites ' programmes

Sydney Lipton and his Orchestra

The day-to-day history of an ordinary family. Produced by David H. Godfrey and John Richmond.

Theatre organ and strings. Sandy Macpherson a guest this week is Mario Lorenzi (harp)

and the Winter Garden Orchestra, with Victoria Campbell (soprano)

Doris Hare is the hostess of this programme of news, , views, music, and entertainment for officers and men of the Red Ensign wherever they are sailing. It comes from the Merchant Navy Club in London, with music by Debroy Somers and his Orchestra. Other features include ' Ship's Newspaper,' talks on Merchant Navy affairs, and guest artists. Programme produced by Alfred Dunning

and his Dance Orchestra, with Ruth Howard and Gerry Fitzgerald

with Harry Hayes , Jimmy Bailey , Billy Wiltshire , and Reginald Foort at the theatre organ

with Leslie Strange , Leon Cortez , Peter Sinclair , Beatrice Varley , Larry Noble , Constance Fraser , George Betton , Peggy Ann Clif ford, John Mann , Bamuta Karell , the Four Smudges, Elfie Percival , BBC Revue Chorus and Percival Mackey 's Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Longstaffe. Show devised by Carroll Levis and Leslie Strange. Produced by Ernest Longstaffe and Peter Duncan

A programme in a new style, including a mystery pianist, and a radio detmtante, with Fred Hartley and his Music and Jack Cooper. Introduced by John Webster

Tunes you have asked to hear, presented by Joan Edgar , with David Buchan at the piano

A resident team of half-wits-Gladys Hay , Michael Moore , and Harold Berens-prove this statement, at the expense of the Question-Master, Stewart MacPherson. Sid Millward and his Nitwits provide tumult when the shouting dies. Gordon Crier is in attendance

featuring the Song Spinners, Roy Rich , and Lew Stone and his Nova-Tones. Presented by Glyn Jones

and his Orchestra, in a programme of uninterrupted music

Harry Parry and his Sextet, with Jean Bradbury , Dinah Kaye. and Denny Vaughan. From the Potomac Restaurant, London
11.30 Roland Peachey and his Orchestra. From the May Fair Hotel, London