Robin Richmond introduces your request records
and his Band
from The Four Ramblers, The Boyne Quartet and John Rorke
(Plymouth)
Conducted by Capt. R. H. Stoner ,
Director of Music
Kenneth Ellis (bass)
' Fire Over Druie '
A Bailie Macwilliam story
Written and read by Hilton Brown
The International Service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sends seasonal greetings in a programme of descriptive music
Orchestra and voices
Conducted by Neil Chotem
(CBC recording)
A Christmas holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
Spotlight on Sport
Famous sports stars tell you about their professional career and give you some hints based on their own experience.
Series devised and presented by Harold Rogers and Alec Weeks
Today: Football
Ted Ditchburn ,
Tottenham Hotspur and England goalkeeper
Mystery Express
Marcel Stellman invites you to go aboard his Mystery Express for a musical tour of the world. When the express stops, it is up to you to recognise the name of the country from the music and speech you hear
Top of the Tree
An informal meeting with famous people who have reached the top of their profession
Today:
Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Reginald Paul (piano)
Introduced by Olive Shapley
' What's Going On ': spotlight on current affairs
' Fifty and Not Afraid of It,' by Mary Brown
' Talking and Playing ' : Jack Armstrong on the Northumbrian pipes
' Housewife's Calendar,' by Barbara Sleigh
' Beginners in the Kitchen : Food News,' by Ruth Drew
The first of a series of short talks giving information about the latest news of food supplies and suggestions on how to use it to the best advantage.
Short story : The Bard' by Rhys Davies. Read by John Glyn-Jones
Charles Ernesco and his Sextet with Doris Cowen (contralto)
Roland Peachey and his May Fair Orchestra
A message of comfort and cheer for all who are ' in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity '
Stuart Hibberd introduces the last of four talks written by a doctor who has had to give up his practice owing to ill-health
(Listeners' problems will be answered as far as possible in the talks, but neither the speakers nor the BBC can undertake to answer questions by correspondence)
Harold Warrender is referee in a game to test the wits and imagination of three victims
Victims:
Ngaio
Marsh Raymond Glendenning
Bernard Horinsky
Inquisitors:
Patricia Laffan
Kim Peacock
Alan Campbell-Johnson
Devised by Victor Silvester. Jnr.
Sketches by Kevin McGarry , Godfrey and Alec Harrison ,
. Barbara Felix , Robert Muller Production by Frederick Piffard
Conductor, Kemlo Stephen
and his Sextet
The Richard Crean Orchestra
with his crazy gang
Arthur Haynes
Len Marten , Edwina Carol
Terry Scott , Frederick Ferrari
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Frank Cantell
Script by Charlie Chester
Produced by Frank Hooper
The radio family with a difference by C. Gordon Glover and Michael Barsley
The family introduced by C. Gordon Glover
Musical effects by Deryck Guyler and his one-man band
Production by Michael Barsley
Owen Walters and his Orchestra
Tonight's guest, Joan Bramhall
Tunes you have asked us to play
The last of a series of programmes in which Wilfred, assisted by some friends, reads a selection of his favourite poems
His guests this week include :
Betty Hardy , Gladys Hay
Harry Hutchinson
Louis MacNeice
Jack Train , and Ralph Truman
Arranged and presented by Wilfred Pickles
Each week Victor Silvester gives you a ten-minute dancing lesson, followed by thirty minutes of dance music played by his Ball-room Orchestra to enable you to practise the steps you Have just learned
Produced by David Miller
'The Story of the Treasure Seekers ' by E. Nesbit
Read by Brian Smith
13—' Take All We Have!'
Mr. Bastable invites the Indian Uncle to what the children know is a very bad dinner. They overhear the visitor refer to himself. as a poor broken-down man,' and unbeknown to their Father, invite the guest to the nursery feast they intend to have next day. The poor broken-down man accepts and before he leaves the party they offer him the remains of their .treasure-trove.
Jack Byfield and his Players
Frederic Curzon at the organ
(Continued in next column)
