Robin Richmond introduces your request records
played by the Southern Serenade Orchestra directed by Lou Whiteson
' Tooting or Timbuctoo'
Major Lewis Hastings talks about books on travel
Conducted by Capt. F. J. Harris
Director of Music
Redvers Llewellyn (baritone)
4 A Sequence of Servants ' from ' My Life and Hard Times' by James Thurber
Read by Lionel Gamlin
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Joan Carr-Jones
and his Orchestra
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Dennis Murdoch (piano)
A daily programme of entertainment, information, and music, for the woman at home
Introduced by Olive Shapley
'Making a Compost Heap,' by C. P . Quarrell
' Beginners in the Kitchen: Soups,' by Dorothy Taylor
'Talking and Playing,' by Vera Canning , the cellist
(Continued in next column)
'The Cost of Living': a series of questions and explanations about the country's housekeeping and how it affects our own. 4-Honor Croome talks about dollars and explains why we have to speed up industry to try and earn them
Serial: 'Cry, the Beloved Country ' by Alan Paton. Abridged by Audrey Lucas. Read by Carleton Hobbs
chosen by Mrs. Rosser of Cardiff played by Jack Salisbury and his Salon Orchestra with Diana Gearing (soprano)
Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Joan Carr-Jones
A message of comfort and cheer for all who are ' in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity '
Today's speaker, who is introduced by Stuart Hibberd , is the Rev. Leslie Kingsbury , Rector of Tansor, near Peterborough
Harold Warrender is referee in a game to test the wits and imagination of three victims
Victims:
Ethel Revnell , Colin Wills
Humphrey Lestocq
Inquisitors:
Patricia Laffan , Kim Peacock
Alan Campbell-Johnston
Devised by Victor Silvester, Jnr .
Script by Kevin McGarry
Additional sketches by Godfrey Harrison
and Alec Harrison and Sheila Hyman
Produced by Frederick Piffard
Conductor, Kemlo Stephen
and his Band
Sidney Davey and his Players
Script by Geoffrey Webb
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
with his crazy gang
Ken Morris
Arthur Haynes
Len Marten , Edwina Carol
Henry Lytton , Frederick Ferrari
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Frank Cantell
Script by Charlie Chester
Produced by Frank Hooper
Tunes you have asked us to play
2—' The Gunpowder Plot
A team of BBC correspondents applies modern news-reporting technique to an account of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 with Georgie Henschel
Wynford Vaughan Thomas and Richard Dimbleby
Compiled with the aid of the BBC Research Unit by Hugh Ross Williamson and Robert Gittings
Produced by Robert Gittings
Melodies from Theatreland over the years
Singers:
Eve
Becke John Hanson
Helen Clare
Jack Cooper and the Wardour Singers
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Rae Jenkins Produced by Michael North
Each week Victor Silvester gives you a ten-minute dancing lesson. Then follows thirty minutes of dance music played by his Ballroom Orchestra to enable you to practise the steps you have just learned
Produced by David Miller
' A Ship of the Line ' by C. S. Forester
Read by Philip Cunningham
9—' A Narrow Escape '
Jack Byfield and his Players with Frederic Curzon at the organ