Sam Heppner introduces your request records

and his Pieces of Eight

Chester Wilmot contributes some ' Notes on the News ' and introduces a guest speaker who analyses a topical theme from a discussion group standpoint. The programme concludes with ' This week's talking-points '

A selection of show tunes played by John Reynders with his Orchestra and Helen Hill (soprano)

' A Bad Boy '
Written and read by Wilson Midgley

Ray Baines at the BBC theatre organ

A Christmas holiday programme
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
All at Sea
Today, you are invited to meet two of Britain's best-known men of the sea, Captain Frank H. Shaw, author of countless adventure stories, and Commander A. B. Campbell, traveller and broadcaster, and to hear the strange and thrilling stories of the sea which they exchange. With them in the studio are two Sea Scouts, David Aslett and Alan Lane, with all sorts of questions about life at sea in modern times
Ship's Concert by Billy Miller and his Shoestrings
'Goodbye! '
Lionel casts off

(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by John Hopkins
Lionel Bowman (piano)

Introduced by Olive Shapley
' This Week's News': John Irwin gives the second of a series of weekly news summaries
' January in the Toolshed,' by Roy Hay
' Is Your Daughter Stage-struck? ' Evelyn Hall , who is herself an actress, discusses the difficulties of deciding whether a girl who says she wants to ' go on the stage ' is merely dazzled by the glamour of the theatre or feels she has the talent
Today's contribution from the BBC Mobile Units
Serial: The Paying Guest' by George Blake. Abridged by Hilton Brown. Read by John Laurie

Reg Leopold and his Players with Jack Cooper

David Java and his Orchestra

Mrs. Date, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Joan Carr-Jones

and his Orchestra with Sally Douglas

Geraldo and his String Choir featuring melodies remembered through the years

at the BBC theatre organ

Harry Leader and his Band

on tomorrow's fixtures

with Claude Dampier , Jon Pertwee
Betty Paul , Bertie Hare
Five Smith Brothers
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Rae Jenkins
Script by Ronnie Hanbury
Produced by George Inns

A Variety exchange presented in collaboration with Radiotjänst, Stockholm
From Stockholm:
Radiotjänst Radio Orchestra
Olle Carle, Gustav Torrestad, Povel Ramel, Andrew Walter
Radiotjänst Chamber Choir
Nils Larsson
Compère: Karin Bergman
From London:
Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra
Anne Shelton.
The George Mitchell Choir
Tommy Reilly
Compère: Franklin Engelmann
Produced in Stockholm by Roland Eiworth; in London by Jacques Brown

with Betty Jumel , Lee Lawrence
Herbert Smith , Peter Broadbent
The Maple Leaf Four
Ray Martin and his Orchestra
Script by Ronald Taylor and Eddie Maguire
Produced by Bowker Andrews

by Jerome K. Jerome
Adapted for broadcasting by Rex Tucker
(Continued in next column)
and Produced by Martyn C. Webster

For One Thousand Pounds
A compeTtition to find new British dance tunes with prizes offered by Hammersmith Palais-de-Danse
Tunes played by Lou Preager and his Orchestra
The contest judged by listeners
From the Hammersmith Palais-de-Danse, to which all correspondence about this contest should be addressed

* Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.. by E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross
Read by Joe Linnane
' The Whiteboys ' : Part 1

Douglas Reeve at the organ of the Dome, Brighton