Your request records introduced this week by Bryan Michie

A talk by S. P. B. Mais about Daniel Defoe 's exciting account of one of the greatest events in London history

Lloyd Thomas at the theatre organ

Walter Legge talks about a leading
English composer of our own times.

Some cheerful music to accompany the mid-morning cup of tea played by Felix Mendelssohn 's Hawaiian Serenaders

Dance music on gramophone records

Andrew Fenner at the organ of the Gaumont Palace, Hammersmith. London
12.30 p.m. Isador Goodman at the piano

Today's programme is contributed by the British Forces Network. Germany, and is played by the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra before a Forces audience
(BFN recording)

Bickershaw Colliery Band: conductor, William Haydock

on gramophone records

and his Sextet in a programme of uninterrupted music

A Hornblower story by C. S. Forester , abridged for broadcasting. Read by Alan Blair , in nineteen instalments. 14—' H.M.S. " Triumph " '

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

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

Harry Leader and his Band

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

Theatre organ and strings. Sandy Macpherson 's guest this week Is George Isaacs (cello)

conducted by Michael Krein , with songs by Samuel Rabin

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

Commentary by Harold Abrahams on the 5,000 metres race, in which Britain's first string is Sydney Wooderson. From Bislet Stadium, Oslo

Martyn Green in songs, and Frederic Curzon at the piano. Presented by Peter Duncan

discussed this week by Viola Garvin and J. G. Wilson. Chairman. Gerald Bullett

with Leslie Strange , Leon Cortez , Peter Sinclair , Beatrice Varley , Larry Noble , Constance Fraser , Peggy Ann Clifford , John Mann. Charles Penrose , Doreen Harris , Adrian Dante 's Accordion Band, Stanley King. 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. The contents include a 'mystery pianist,' a radio debutante, with Fred Hartley and his Music and Jack Cooper. Introduced by John Webster

Tunes you ask us to play

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

Phil Green and Dorothe Morrow , with Peter Gray. Presented by William Worsley

and his Orchestra, in a programme of uninterrupted music

Roland Peachey and his Orchestra. From the May Fair Hotel, London
11.30 Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra. with Denny Dennis. From Fischer's Restaurant. London