Introduced by Sam Heppner
and his Music
'I I prefer Westerns' says Bert Palmer in the second of six discussions with Frank Tilsley , the critic and novelist. Why should you read the classics when you can get far more enjoyment out of a Western or a thriller? Why should you go to see a 'good ' film full of depressing realities, when you can get a bit of gaiety and romance at the cinema and escape from dreary everyday life?
Conductor, John Bath
Rita McKerrow (soprano)
' Superficial Judgments'
A Bailie Macwilliam story
Written and read by Hilton Brown
Conducted by Captain John L. Judd , M.B E.
Director of Music
A Christmas holiday programme
Edited by Lionel Gamlin
Spotlight on Sport
Famous sports stars tell you about their professional careers and give you some hints based on their own experience.
Series devised and presented by Harold Rogers and Alec Weeks
Today: Len Harvey on boxing
Mystery Express
Marcel Stellman invites you to go aboard his Mystery Express for the third and last of his musical tours around 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. No train tickets required, but have your pencils and paper ready
* Proud Canvas *
Duncan Carse tells you about the voyage he made from Sweden to South Africa aboard one of the last of the old sailing ships, the Finnish four - master barque Passat, and illustrates his account with some excerpts from the sound-track of the film ' Proud Canvas,' which was made on board during the eighty days between ports
Overture, Le Carnaval romain (Berlioz): Orchestra of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk. conducted by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Vltava; Sarka; From Bohemia's Woods and Fields; Tabor (Ma Vlast) (Smetana): BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult on gramophone records
A daily programme of entertainment, information, and music for the woman at home
Introduced by Olive Shapley
' What's Going On ': spotlight on current affairs
' Stately Homes': 2-St. Fagan's Castle, Glamorgan. This Elizabethan manor house, built on the site of a former medieval fortress, became in 1947 a museum of Welsh folk culture and industries. The house and its interesting contents are described by the Director of the museum, Dr. Iorwerth Peate
' Talking and Playing,' by Sidonie Goossens , harpist
' Just Plain Potty,' by Gertrude Hutchinson
' Beginners in the Kitchen: Planning Meals for the Family,' by Marguerite Patten
Serial: The Paying Guest,' by George Blake. Abridged by Hilton Brown. Read by John Laurie
Louis Stevens and his Quintet with George Chitty (tenor)
Billy Tement and his Orchestra
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. Ronald Selby Wright , Minister of the Kirk of the Canongate, Edinburgh
Harold Warrender is referee in a game to test the wits and imagination of three hand-picked victims
Victims:
Naomi Jacob
Hugh McDermott
Humphrey Lestocq
Inquisitors:
Patricia Laffan
Kim Peacock
Alan Campbell-Johnson
Devised by Victor Silvester , Jnr.
Sketches by Kevin McGarry , Frances Collingwood
Lawrie Somers. Victor Woolf
Preduction by Frederick Piffard
Conductor, Kemlo Stephen
and the Blue Mariners
The Promenade Players
Conductor, Sidney Bowman
Script by B. D. Chapman
Produced by Archie Campbell
Tunes you have asked us to play
The Daily Mail National Radio Award Presentations
Preceded by 'From 2LO to "Take It From Here"'
A cavalcade of radio entertainment introducing:
Henry Hall, Frank Phillips, Jack Payne, Richard Murdoch, Donald Peers, Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Charles Shadwell, Betty Driver, Derek McCulloch, Arthur Askey, Kenneth Horne, Geraldo, Ambrose, Vera Lynn, Richard Dimbleby, Elsie and Doris Waters, Wilfred Pickles, Raymond Glendenning
and the following members of the 'Itma' team: Jack Train, Deryck Guyler, Horace Percival, Hugh Morton, Joan Harben, Maurice Denham, Carleton Hobbs, Diana Morrison, Dorothy Summers, Clarence Wright, Lind Joyce, Hattie Jacques, Dino Galvani, Fred Yule
The National Radio Awards for 1949, in memory of Tommy Handley, will be presented by Ted Kavanagh on behalf of the voting listeners to:
Gladys Young as the outstanding actress
James McKechnie as the outstanding actor
Stewart MacPherson as the voice of the year
And the 'Take It From Here' team consisting of Joy Nichols, Dick Bentley, Frank Norden, Denis Muir, Jimmy Edwards, Wallas Eaton, The Keynotes, Frank Cantell, Charles Maxwell for the outstanding Variety show of the year
Music under the direction of Sidney Torch
Production by Harry Alan Towers
Commentator, John Ellison
Organised by the Daily Mail
From the Ballroom of Grosvenor House, London, at 8.0
with George Robey
Nat Travers
Lily Morris
Bransby Williams
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Frank Cantell
Produced by Tom Ronald
Owen Walters and his Orchestra
Tonight's guest, Eugenie Castle
Each week Victor Silvester gives you a ten.minute dancing lesson, followed by 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
'Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.' by E. CE. Somerville and Martin Ross
Read by Joe Linnane
' Sharper than a Ferret's Tooth
Part 2
Jack Byfield and his Players with Frederic Curzon at the organ
