Robert MacDermot introduces your request records
and his Mayfair Music
'How do you know it's good?'
Bert Palmer wants to know, in his fourth argument with Frank Tilsley, if the critic has got a set of rules by which to judge a work of art ? Is he not just laying down the law about his own likes and dislikes? Well, perhaps he does not know, says Frank Tilsley, but he can make a good guess
Troise and his Banjoliers
Conductor, John Bath
Maria Solimini (piano)
' Transformation Scene '
Written and read by James Gregson
(Chatham)
Conducted by Captain Thomas Francis
Director of Music
Edith Lewin (mezzo-soprano)
Conducted by Mansel Thomas
A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
Introduced by Olive Shapley
' What's Going On': spotlight on current affairs
(Continued in next column)
' Stately Homes': 4--Grantley Hall, Ripon. Vernon Noble describes the Hall, and D. M Hopkinson explains the new use to which it has been, put
This eighteenth-century Yorkshire mansion was formerly owned by the Norton family, a member of which-Sir Fletcher Norton— became Speaker of the House of Commons in 1770. ' Talking and Playing,' by Marie Wilson , violinist
'Charm,' by Arthur Gibbon
' Beginners in the Kitchen: Food News,' by Marjorie Huxley
Serial: 'The Paying Guest' by George Blake. Abridged by Hilton Brown. Read by John Laurie
The Billy Mayerl Rhythm Ensemble with Grace Nevern (soprano)
Stan Atkins and his Band
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 Canon-gate, Edinburgh
Harold Warrender is referee In a game to test the wits and imagination of three hand-picked victims
Victims:
Jeanne de Casalis Humphrey Lestocq
. Denis Norden
Inquisitors:
Patricia Laffan
Kim Peacock
Alan Campbell-Johnson
Devised by Victor Silvester , Jnr.
Conductor, Keralo Stephen
BBC Northern Ireland Light Orchestra
Conductor, David Curry
Northern Ireland Singers
Conductor, Edgar Boucher
Henrietta Byrne (soprano)
Havelock Nelson and May Turtle (two pianos)
The Kursaal Orchestra Directed by Louis Voss
A programme for Anniversary Day given by some Australian entertainers now in London including
Cyril Ritchard and Madge Elliott
Sylvia Fisher
John Cameron
Bill Kerr and Kitty Bluett
John McCallum *
Mewton-Wood
Joy Nichols and Dick Bentley
Peter Dawson
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Frank Cantell
Script by Alan Stranks
Production by Charles Maxwell
January
A light-hearted magazine containing forty minutes of fun, features, and music
Contents include:
' Pennies from Heaven' Party with Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Report from Hamburg by Michael Barsley Jugoslav Christmas by John Seymour
Salutes and Satires by Allan M. Laing
Gordon Glover 's Looking-Glass with Marjorie Westbury
Cecile Chevreau
Preston Lockwood and Gladys Spencer
Music composed by Marr Mackie and played by Billy Miller and the Shoestrings-Conducted by Clifton Helliwell
Produced by Michael Barsley
with Tano Ferendinos
Harry Secombe , Ossie Morris
Eric Whitley , Ann Walters
Frank James , Sarah Leigh
Frank Davidson , Dilys Lloyd
The Girls in Harmony
The Lyrian Singers
' The Adventures of Tommy Trouble' *
Script by E. Eynon Evans
Welsh Variety Orchestra
Leader, Morgan Lloyd
. Produced by Mai Jones
Story o)t page 5
A Day c . Rest
Some of the competitors' own stories of adventure collected by Richard Dimbleby
Each week Victor Silvester gives you a ten-minute dancing lesson, followed by thirty minutes of dance music played by his Ball room Orchestra
Produced by David Miller
'The Cathedral' by Hugh Walpole
Read by Carleton Hobbs
Part 4
Canon Ronder makes it his business to find out what's what in Poicnester and discovers, to his satisfaction, that it is rather a question of who's who.
Jack Byfield and his Players Frederic Curzon at the organ
