John Watt introduces your request records
and his Orchestra
' Why should I bother?,'
' You can't appreciate the best in art,' says Frank Tilsley , without taking trouble to understand what it's getting at.' Bert Palmer wants to know if it is really worth all that trouble
Ralph Elman and his Bohemian Players
Conductor, John Bath
' The Parrot'
Written and read by H. R. Jukes
(The Blues)
Conducted by Capt. David McBain
Director of Music
Tudor Evans (baritone)
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
Introduced by Olive Shapley
'Life in the Pine Hills of Mississippi,' by Joyce Lay
' Stately Homes': 6-Ferniehirst Castle, Roxburghshire. This border castle, built on the site of an old fortress of Bruce's time, has a wild past and was often the scene of fierce battles between the English and Scots. It belonged to the family of the present Marquis of Lothian for more than five hundred years, and is now a Youth Hostel.
Sheila Forman and Warden Daisy Kerr talk about its past and present
' These Women Make Music': a series of gramophone programmes on popular music. Written and introduced by Nontando Jabavu. 2-Lil' Armstrong, singer and director of her own orchestra
' Looking at Nature,' by Maxwell Knight
' Beginners in the Kitchen,' by Bee Nilson. ' Minced Meat': suggestions for using tough or difficult pieces of meat
Serial: Mothering Sunday ' by Noel Streatfeild. Abridged by Eve Howland . Read by Mary O'Farrell
Reg Leopold and his Players with Jack Cooper
Bill Hawkins and his Band
A message of comfort and cheer for all ' 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
(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)
played by Leonard Hayes and his Music
Conductor, Kemlo Stephen
and his Band
The Raeburn Orchestra
Conductor, Wynford Reynolds
A special programme of Calypsoes, old and new, sung by ' Attila the Hun,' ' Lord Invader,' ' Lion,' and ' Tiger'
Recorded recently in Trinidad by Leonard Cottrell , who presents the programme
with Lee Lawrence
Harry Secombe
Ossle Morris
Ann Walters
Marjorie Scott
Frank James
Sarah Leigh
Frank Davison
Dilys Lloyd
The Girls in Harmony
Morriston Orpheus
Male Voice Choir
'The Adventures of Tommy Trouble'
Script by E. Eynon Evans
Welsh Variety Orchestra (Leader. Morgan Lloyd ) Produced by Mai Jones
The .
Rt. Hon Florence Horsbrugh , C.B.E .
(Conservative)
Each week Victor Silvester gives you a ten-minute dancing lesson, followed by dance music played by his Ballroom Orchestra to enable you to practise the steps you have just learned
Produced by David Miller
'The Cathedral' by Hugh Walpole
Read by Carleton Hobbs. Part 14
Joan Brandon has a long wait for her dinner and a distressing evening to follow, and Archdeacon Brandon gets another letter he would rather not have received.
Jack Byfield and his Players with Frederic Curzon at the organ
