Sam Heppner introduces your request records
at the BBC theatre organ
Use and Abuse
A series of illustrated talks by Lionel Hale dealing with right and wrong ways of using words 2
—' Red Tape English '
Why we should avoid using it in everyday life
Directed by Michael Spivakovsky with Alexis Kligerman (piano)
' Pick the Winner' by Damon Runyan
Abridged and read by Charles Richardson
and his Gypsy Orchestra with Max Diggan (tenor)
A Christmas holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
Man at the Wheel
Robert MacDermot , with a BBC Mobile Unit invites you to meet the ' man at the wheel ' of different kinds of transport
4-The captain and crew of a B.O.A.C. transatlantic airliner
Musical Adventure
Kenyon Emrys-Roberts tells you a musical adventure-story, with illustrations from the composer's work
Today : ' Don Quixote ' by Richard Strauss
Top of the Tree
An Informal meeting with famous people who have reached the top of their profession
Today: Dame Edith Evans , D.B.E.
Conductor, Mansel Thomas
Ren6 Soames (tenor)
Introduced by Olive Shapley
' What's Your Worry': Marian Cutler talks about arrangements made under the Social Services to help sufferers from tuberculosis
' Listen with Mother': a programme for children under five is due to start on January 16. Suzanne Hale , one of the planners, talks about this new series
' The House of " Little Women " ': Marguerite Steen talks about her visit to the Alcotts' home in Concord, Massachusetts
'I went to millinery classes,' by Aileen Wing
Serial: The Paying Guest' by George Blake. Abridged by Hilton Brown. Read by John Laurie
The Pavilion Players
Directed by David Wolfsthal
- with Kenneth Tudor (baritone)
Morris Motors Band
Conductor, G. V. Brooks
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Joan Carr-Jones
George Scott-Wood and his Accordion Band
Geraldo and his Orchestra featuring ' Songs with Strings'
Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ
A weekly series featuring instrumental and vocal groups
The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Kursaal Orchestra
Directed by Louis Voss
An extract from the Tom Arnold and Emile Littler pantomime at the Theatre Royal, Birmingham
Produced and devised by Harry Bright with Nat Mills and Bobbie
Reg Dixon
Jean Oarson , Millicent Phillips
Claude Jones , Ewart Locke
Gay and Gay
Dennis Martin and Peter Robinson
Norman McGlenn and Vera
Margot Anderson , Maureen Sims
The Skyliners
(Continued in next column)
Walton's Marionettes
Annette's Dancers and Kirby's Flying Ballet
Book written by Tom Arnold and Harry Bright
Orchestra under the direction of Bob Marshall
Introduced by Philip Garston-Jones
with Wallas Eaton
Alan Dean , The Keynotes
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
CorTductor, Frank Cantell
Script by Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Produced by Charles Maxwell
by Reginald Berkeley
Adapted for radio by Peter Watts
[Starring] Gladys Young
Late-night dance music from the West End of London
Harry Roy and his Band
From the Cafe Anglais
10.40 Stephane Grappelly and his Trio
From the '96' Restaurant
* Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.' by E. CE. Somerville and Martin Ross
Read by Joe Linnane
' Poisson d'avril ' : Part 2
played by the Southern Serenade Orchestra directed by Lou Whiteson with Freddie Phillips (guitar)