Bryan Michie introduces your request records

'Plain English'
' Like Greased Lightning': a talk by Geoffrey Earle about the devices writers use to add colour to their work
10.20 ' More Great Novelists'
A reading from Thomas Hardy 's 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles '

Music for mid-morning played by the Leslie Bridgewater Quintet, with Michael O'Duffy (tenor)

'The Game at Bignon,' by Alastair Dunnett. Read by Duncan Maclntyre

Falkman and his Apache Band, with Amalia Magri and Jacques Vallez

A programme of gramophone records

John Madin at the organ of the Granada, Clapham Junction, London

West-Country Studio Orchestra
Conductor, Reginald Redman

Brighouse and Rastrick Band: conductor, Eric Ball

A daily programme of entertainment, information, and music for the woman at home
Today Joan Griffiths introduces: a dental surgeon on ' Can your Children Smile?'; Mary Ball on 'Women on the Land Edith Neider on ' The Beginner in the Kitchen'; Housewives' Exchange-tips and hints from housewives in the Midlands ; Woman's Hour ante-natal clinic—' Before Baby Comes.' an introductory talk by a woman doctor whose own first baby is a few months old; and the current serial story, ' 'Rebecca,' by Daphne du Maurier. read by Barbara McFadyean

Michaeloff and his Mazurka Orchestra

Billy Munn and his Music

An everyday story of everyday people. Script by Jonquil Antony. Produced by Archie Campbell.

The Skyrockets Concert Orchestra, directed by Paul Fenoulhet , with Doreen Lundy , Sylvia Robin , and Cyril Shane , in a programme of music for everyone

The music you have asked for, introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the theatre organ

Conducted by Michael Krein , with Reginald Kell (clarinet)

The Quiz visits Ferndale, in the Rhondda Valley
Last Wednesday's recorded broadcast repeated

Thriller serial of the circus. Script by Geoffrey Webb. Produced by Raymond Raikes. (BBC recording)

Tunes you ask us to play

A weekly review from the Calamity Theatre, Ballymascara with Joe Linnane , Maureen Potter , Jim Jonson. Josie Day. Vernon Hayden , Maurice Keary. Olivia Bur -leigh, James Moody , Rhoderick Walker , and Robert Long. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Frank Cantell. Script by Harry O'Donovan and Loftus Wigram. Produced by Tom Ronald.

9-Building
Programme written by Joe Burroughs and J. L. Davidson. Produced by W. Farquharson Small

Weekly broadcasts from well-known Variety theatres.
This week The Hippodrome, Wolverhampton with Jones and Thomas, David Poole, and Macari and his Dutch Serenaders. Introduced by Philip Garston-Jones

Freddie Mills
(Light Heavyweight Champion of Great Britain and the British Empire) v.
Lloyd Marshall (United States)
Commentary by Stewart Mac Pherson on the ten-round Cruiserweight Contest, with inter-round summaries by W. Barrington Dalby
From Harrlngay Arena, London

Melodies for the close of day, with Dan Donovan , the Strings in Harmony, and the Serenaders. Musical arrangements and production by Mai Jones

and his Orchestra with Dinah Kaye. Dick James , and Tom Henry From Fischer's Restaurant, London