David Jacobs introduces your request records

and his Players with David Java (violin)

Andrew Fenner at the BBC theatre organ
(Continued in next column)

What's on Today
Interviews, talks, and discussions with and about today's personalities and events; and commentaries on the opening overs in the matches Yorkshire v. Lancashire, and Glamorgan v. New Zealanders
Introduced by Michael Brooke
Edited by Angus Mackay

BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter

Felix Mendelssohn and his Hawaiian Serenaders

Yorkshire v. Lancashire
Glamorgan v. New Zealanders
Commentaries by E. W. Swanton from Headingley, Leeds, and by John Arlott from St. Helen's Ground, Swansea

Harry Gold and his Pieces of Eight From the Winter Gardens,
Weston-super-Mare

Conducted by Phil Cardew

Yorkshire v. Lancashire
Glamorgan v. New Zealanders
Further commentaries

Commentaries by Charles Gardner and Max Robertson on the second heat
From Birmingham Airport, Elmdon
(Story of this famous race is told by Charles Gardner on page 4)

vorkshire v. Lancashire
Glamorgan v. New Zealanders
Further commentaries

Commentary by Raymond Glendenning, assisted by Tom E. Webster as race-reader
From Epsom Racecourse

Yorkshire v. Lancashire
Glamorgan v. New Zealanders
Further commentaries

Further commentaries by Charles Gardner and Max Robertson on the third heat

BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, George Deason )
Conductor, Rae Jenkins with Eric Whitley
Introduced by Franklin Engelmann

Glamorgan v. New Zealanders
Yorkshire v. Lancashire
Further commentaries

Commentaries by Charles Gardner and Max Robertson on the final of the air race at Birmingham Airport

Glamorgan v. New Zealanders
Yorkshire v. Lancashire
Further commentaries

presents
Surprise Party' and invites to its ' end of season' programme some famous personalities from the entertainment world
Introduced by Lord Donegall Produced by Johnnie Stewart

including cricket close of play scores

Heddle Nash (tenor)
James Gibb (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, George Stratton )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall. London
Part 1
The Nursery Song on which Dohnanyi has based his Variations is * Ah, vous dirai-je, maman,' which is also the theme of a set of keyboard variations by Mozart (in English it is known as Baa, baa, black sheep '). The contrast between this simple little tune, which appears after an impressive introduction, and the elaborate and brilliantly scored variations, is very striking. There are eleven variations and a Finale: in the fifth there is an imitation of a musical box; number seven is a waltz, number eight a march, and there is a fugue in the Finale. The work is dedicated * to the enjoyment of lovers of humour and to the annoyance of others.'
Saint-SaEns' Symphonic Poem is a musical portrayal of the legend of Hercules, enslaved by Omphale, the Lydian Queen, and made to perform servile tasks. As well as the whirr of the spinning wheel, you can hear during the course of the music the suggestion of Hercules struggling to be free of his bonds and Omphale mocking at his vain efforts.—Harold Rutland

Isabelita Alonso (soprano)

Part 2

Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra
From the Aquarium Ballroom, Brighton
10.50 Geraldo and his Orchestra
From the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool
11.25 Lou Preager and his Orchestra from the Hammersmith Palais-de-Danse. London