Robin Richmond introduces your request records
The Tom Jones Trio with Marjorie Flinn (soprano)
This week's expert and F.E.B.'s discussion group leader tackle a topic in the news
John Madin at the organ of the Granada, Tooting, London
' Cobbler Billy.
A North-Country Character ' A series of five short stories written and read by H. R. Jukes
6—' The Shoeing of the Ghost'
The Spa Orchestra
Directed by Tom Jenkins
Conductor, Mansel Thomas
Henry Holst (violin)
Harry Roy and his Band play British .and American melodies of today and yesterday
Introduced by Olive Shapley
'Green Fingers': making the cuttings root. by Gordon Forsyth
'As Old As You Feel': the second talk by Dr. Alfred Torrie. Medical Director of the National Association for Mental Health
' The Marriage'of Lakitan,' by Arthur Southon.
Today's contribution from the BBC Mobile Units
Serial: 'Jenny Villiers ' by J. B. Priestley. Abridged by Honor Wyatt . Read by Mary O'Farreii
chosen by Mrs. D. Lonsdale of Stockton-on-Tees and played by Charles Ifrnesco and his Sextet with Denis Dowling (baritone)
Portland Light Orchestra
Directed by Fred Alexander
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife. records the daily happenings in the life of her family. Script by Jonquil Antony
Reginald King and his Courtiers
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(Monday's recorded broadcast)
Conducted by Lieut. C. H. Jaeger
Director of Music -
All-England Championships
Commentaries by Max Robertson and Raymond Glendenning
From Wimbledon
at the BBC theatre organ
Tunes you have asked us to play
including cricket close of play scores
Stewart MacPherson puts all the questions, and Harold Berens , Gladys Hay , and Michael Moore know none of the answers
The Soup Stains and The Foulharmonic Orchestra
Produced by George Inns
Tonight: Scenes from
* Pagliacci ' by Leoncavallo
Marjorie Shires (soprano)
James Johnston (tenor)
John Kentish (tenor)
Roderick Jones (baritone) Douglas Craig (baritone)
BBC Theatre Chorus
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Conductor, Walter Goehr
Story told by Stephen Williams
Pagliacci has become the classic example of the clown who has to laugh and jest while his heart is breaking. The name has passed into nearly every language and the * Pagliacci theme is frequently spoken of by people who have not even heard a note of the opera. Like its inseparable partner Cavalteria Rusticana (they are
(Continued in next column) asually called the Heavenly Twins of opera), Pagliacci tells a fierce, taut, swiftly-moving story of love and crime, in which every bar is afire with dramatic significance. And like Mascagni, Leoncavallo, although he wrote other and more ambitious operas, never achieved such a rebounding success again.—Stephen Williams
with David Lloyd
Bryn Calvin-Thomas
Dan Donovan
Frank Davison , Frank James
Sarah Leigh , Donald Wells
The Girls In Harmony
The Lyrian Singers
'The Adventures of Tommy Trouble'
Script by E. Eynon Evans
Welsh Variety Orchestra Produced by Mat Jones
Another series in the adventures of Shorty, a London taxi-driver, with Jerry Verno as the driver
Written by Cyril Campion
Produced by Jacques Brown
and his Orchestra with the Kordites
Reginald Porter-Brown at the organ of the Granada. Tooting, London