Barbara McFadyean introduces your request records

Conductor, Gilbert Vinter

Andrew Fenner at the BBC theatre organ
Selection of Famous Old Hit Songs

What's on Today
Interviews, talks, and discussions with and about today's personalities and events; also commentaries on the opening overs in the matches between Middlesex and Surrey and Lancashire and the New Zealanders
Introduced by Peter Fettes
Edited by Angus Mackay

Commentaries on the race over the Clady Circuit , Northern Ireland, by Graham Walker at the Grandstand, and Kenneth Best at Muckamore

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

Middlesex v. Surrey
Lancashire v. New Zealanders
Commentaries by E. W. Swanton from Lord's, and by Brian Johnston from Aigburth Ground, Liverpool

Leslie Douglas and his Orchestra
From the Floral Hall, Southport

Further commentaries on the closing stages of the race over the Clady Circuit , Northern Ireland

Conductor, David Curry
with Havelock Nelson (piano)

Middlesex v. Surrey
Lancashire v. New Zealanders
Further commentaries

Daily Express
International Trophy Race
A commentary on the start of the race by Max Robertson assisted by Rex Hays
Organised by the British Racing Drivers' Club at the R.A.C. Silverstone Circuit

Newcastle United v. Portsmouth
A commentary by Alan Clarke during the second half of the match from St. James's Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Middlesex v. Surrey
Lancashire v. New Zealanders

Daily Express
International Trophy Race
Commentaries on the final stages of the race by Max Robertson and Rex Hays
From the R.A.C. Silverstone Circuit

including football results
Special reports on Football League: Fulham v. Wolverhampton Wanderers, by W. J. Hicks ; Newcastle United v. Portsmouth, by Alan Clarke ; West Bromwich Albion v. Charlton Athletic, by Teddy Eden Scottish League: Review of the day's matches by E. Frazer
Motor Racing: The International Meeting at Silverstone. by Max Robertson
Motor-Cycling: Graham Walker on the Ulster Grand Prix
Cycling: W. J. Mills reports from Copenhagen on the World Championships
Talking Sport: Bill McGowran on topics of the moment
Introduced by John Webster
Edited by Angus Mackay

Middlesex v. Surrey
Lancashire v. New Zealanders

New Orleans jazz music played by the New Orleans Jazz Club

ncluding cricket close of play scores

Constance Cummings (narrator)
Owen Brannigan (bass)
Iso Elinson (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
From the Royal Albert Hall. London
Part 1
Chopin's two Piano Concertos both date from the time when he was winning fame as a youthful virtuoso. The one in F minor, though known as No. 2, was actually the first to be written (in 1829, when he was nineteen). Throughout the work the soloist is in the foreground, the piano-writing being notably elaborate and graceful. Chopin himself said that the slow movement was written ' whilst my thoughts were with my ideal ': his ideal at that time being a young singer, Constantia Gladowska.
'Don Juan ,' written when Strauss was in his early twenties, was one of the first of his symphonic poems. Based as it is on Lenau's version of the story, Don Juan is depicted as an idealist rather than a cynic; he is always seeking perfection in womanhood, but disillusion follows quickly upon possession. At the end disappointment and satiety overwhelm him and he allows himself to be killed in a duel. The exultant opening theme suggests the ardent passion of youth.

Dennis Brain (horn)

Part 2
Described as a musical tale for children,' ' Peter and the Wolf ' was first performed at a children's concert in Moscow in 1936. Since then it has gained wide popularity, and has been produced as a ballet, both in England and America. The story of Peter's-resourcefulness and the wolf's discomfiture is told by the narrator and illustrated by the orchestra. Each character in the story is represented by an instrument; the bird by a flute, the duck by an oboe, the cat by a clarinet in a low register, the grand-father by a bassoon, and the wolf by three homs. Peter's blithely adventurous theme, which begins the ' musical tale,' is played by the strings. Harold Rutland

Cyril Stapleton and his Orchestra
From the Aquarium Ballroom,
Brighton

From the Empress Ballroom,
Winter Gardens. Blackpool

and his Orchestra
From the Hammersmith Palais-de-Danse, London