Records introduced by Paul Adam

Ray Baines at the BBC theatre organ

Ralph Elman and the Tzigane Orchestra. with songs by Enrico Nobell

A summer holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlm
'His First Flight'
An extract from ' Spring Sowing ' by Liam O'Flaherty , read by David Davis
Young Film-goer 's Diary
Terry Marston and Donald Wilson. two London schoolboys, discuss new films they think you will enjoy in the holidays
Autograph Album
Each week a visitor signs the Autograph Album and remembers a school holiday of long ago. Today: Flora Robson

Conductor, Charles Groves

Gentlemen v. Players
Commentary by E. W Swanton during the last morning's play
From Lord's

Paul Fenoulhet and his Orchestra play British and American melodies of yesterday and today

Introduced by Olive Shapley
Taking Care of the Breeding
Rabbit, by W. King Wilson
'Old Folks' Town in Copenhagen.' by Alan Ivimey
' Birds in the Bush, by Jane Graham Today's contribution from the BBC Mobile Units
Serial I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith Abridged by Nan Saunders. Read by Daphne Oxenford

chosen by Mrs. E. M. Mahood of Donaghadee, County Down played by Arthur Salisbury and his Orchestra with Barbara Sumner (soprano)

Promenade Players
Conductor. Sidney Bowman

The Spa Orchestra directed by Tom Jenkins with Maeve Diane (soprano)

Conductor, Harry Mileman

Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra and singers

Gentlemen v. Players
Commentary by E W. Swanton on the closing overs of the match

at the BBC theatre organ

Walford Hyden and his Cafe Colette Orchestra in music from the Continent and other parts of the world with Maria Perilli and Andreas Sergides
Presented by Jacques Brown

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 Foulharmonie Orchestra
Script by Ronnie Hanbury and George Wadmore
Produced by George Inns

Tonight: Scenes from Verdi's
* II Trovatore '
Joan Hammond (soprano)
Janet Howe (mezzo-soprano)
Parry Jones (tenor)
Frederick Sharp (baritone)
BBC Theatre Chorus
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Conductor, Walter Goehr
Story told by Stephen Williams
(Frederick Sharp broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells)
Everyone will tell you that the plot of // Trovatore is incomprehensible. Don't believe it. The plot is perfectly comprehensible, but, like most things worth understanding, it demands a little effort to understand. Once you have made that effort you will never forget it. The chief splendour of 11 Trovatore, however, is its prodigality of perfectly magnificent tunes. Never was Verdi more bounteous of his apparently inexhaustible wealth of melody. 11 Trovatore is one of the three highest peaks of Verdi's middle period as a composer, the other two being Rigaletto and La Traviata. It is based on Gutierrez's romantic drama of fifteenth-century Spain, El Trcvador , and tells of the love of two brothers, separated since. infancy, for the same woman. It is high tragedy of the most violently contrasted lights and shadows, and Verdi has matched it with fiery, passionate music that strikes out sparks at every bar.-Stephten Williams

with Bruce Dargavel, Bryn Calvin-Thomas, Dan Donovan, Frank Davison, Dilys Lloyd, Esme Lewis, Frank James, Donald Wells, Sarah Leigh
The Girls in Harmony
The Lyrian Singers
'The Adventures of Tommy Trouble'
Script by E. Eynon Evans
Welsh Variety Orchestra (Leader, Morgan Lloyd)
Additional scripts by Donald Wells and Wallace Towers
Produced by Mai Jones

Another series in the adventures of Shorty, a London taxi-driver, with Jerry Vemo as the driver
Written by Cyril Campion
Produced by Jacques Brown

and his Band with Steve Race

Thomas Dando at the organ of the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle