Georgie Henschel introduces your request records
Harold Smart at the BBC theatre organ
Chester Wilmot contributes a ' News Diary of the Week ' and introduces a guest speaker who analyses a topical theme from a discussion group standpoint. The programme concludes with This week's talking-point'
Conductor, Mansel Thomas
' My Financial Career' and ' Men Who Have Shaved Me' by Stephen Leacock
Read by Arthur Phelps
The Navy League's annual ceremony at the foot of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square
Address by the First Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fraser of North Cape, G.C.B., K.B.E.
Nelson's prayer before Trafalgar
.read by a Sea Cadet
Music by the Band of H.M. Royal Marines
(Chatham)
Conducted by Captain Thomas Francis
Director of Music
Commentator, Henry Riddell
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
Paul Fenoulhet and his Orchestra with the Stargazers
Guest artist, Doreen Lundy
Introduced by Olive Shapley
' What's Going On': spotlight on current affairs
' Mother-tongue': a talk against baby-talk by Florence Ledger
' Beauty in Portraits,' by Frank Slater
It is sometimes rather difficult to see why faces painted by the old masters were considered beautiful. Standards in beauty change and Frank Slater, who is himself a portrait painter, talks about some of the dinerences between the beauties of past centuries and physical loveliness as we judge it today.
Today's contribution from the BBC Mobile Units
Serial: ' Icedrome ' by Frank Tilsley , abridged by the author. Read by Freda Falconer
chosen by Mrs. L. Samuel of Milford, near Godalming played by Louis Stevens and his Quintet with Philip Lewtas (baritone)
Sidney Davey and his Players
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Lesley Wilson
Half an hour's music presented by Stuart Hibberd with John Probyn (baritone)
Bernard Davis (viola)
Daphne Spottiswoode (piano)
A serial in eight episodes by Francis Durbridge
2 —' The Manilla '
Other parts played by Hugh Manning and Joan Hart
Production by Martyn C. Webster
A serial in eight episodes by Francis Durbridge
(Continued)
Tunes for all tastes featuring Reggie Goff and the Gleegirls with Carroll Gibbons and the Boy-friends
at the BBC theatre organ
Felix King and his Orchestra
Script by Edward J. Mason
Produced by David H. Godfrey
on tomorrow's fixtures
with Claude Dampier , Jon Pertwee
Betty Paul , Bertie Hare
Five Smith Brothers
The Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Stanley Black
Script by Ronnie Hanbury
Produced by George Inns
From the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
A Trafalgar Day entertainment by ex-Navy artists including
Jack Watson , Barbara Sumner
Jon Pertwee , Frederick Harvey and their guest
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Rae Jenkins
Produced by Charles Maxwell
Stewart MacPherson puts all the questions, and Harold Berens , Gladys Hay , and Michael Moore know none of the answers
The Soup Stains
The Foulharmonic Orchestra directed by Jack Coles
Script by Ronnie Hanbury and George Wadmore
Produced by Neil Tuson
Basil Cameron gives the first of two talks on The Symphony
Illustrations include the first movements of Beethoven's Eighth Symphony and Schubert's ' Unfinished' Symphony played by the London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, George Stratton )
Produced by Roger Fiske
Don Carlos and his Samba Band
Jackie Brown at the electric organ
Jose Norman and his Orqueatra Pan-Americana
Introduced by Edmundo Ros
Solomon plays some of Chopin's well-loved music for piano
Prelude in F major. Op. 28 No. 23 Ballade No. 2. in F Nocturne in E flat
Polonaise in A flat
Edmund Hockridge (baritone)
Charles Smart at the BBC theatre organ