Sam Heppner introduces your request records
and his Pieces of Eight
7-The Critic
Robert MacDermot meets Paul Dehn to talk about the problems of film criticism
Conducted by Kneale Kelley
conflict in Morfa ' by Rhys Davies
Read by John Glyn-Jones
(Bandmaster, G. V. Brooks )
Guest conductor, Harry Mortimer
Gladys Ripley (contralto)
Conductor, Charles Groves
A programme for children under five
Introduced by Olive Shapley
' What's Going On': spotlight on current affairs
' Stately Homes': 13-Denman College, Marcham, Berkshire, described by Elizabeth Christmas
' Talking and Playing,' by Florence Hooton , cellist
'A, Nice Cup of Tea,' by Ian Harris
' Beginners In the Kitchen,' by Betty Bucknell
The food problems of today's housewife need not prevent her from being a good cook.
Serial: ' A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' by Betty Smith. Abridged by Ara Calder-Marshall. Read by Peggy Hassard
Montmartre Players directed by Henry Krein with Amalia Magri
Oscar Rabin and his Band
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
(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 Orchestra
Dancing lesson by Cecil Ruault
Conductor, Kemlo Stephen
The Richard Crean Orchestra
Script by Edward J. Mason
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
Tunes you have asked us to play
Tonight: excerpts from
'The Flying Dutchman' by Wagner
Cast in order of singing:
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan Melville)
BBC Opera Orchestra
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Introduced by Stephen Williams
Produced by Harold Neden
(Hervey Alan broadcasts by permission of the Governors of Sadler's Wells; Rosina Raisbeck , by permission of the General Administrator ot Covenl Garden Opera Trust)
with Redvers Llewellyn
Albert and Les Ward
Dan Donovan
Ossie Morris
Ann Walters , Harry Secombe
Frank Davison. Frank James
The Girls in Harmony
The Lyrian Singers
' The Adventures of Tommy Trouble'
Script by E. Eyrmn Evans
Welsh Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Morgan Lloyd)
Produced by Mai Jones
Each week Victor Silvester gives you a ten-minute dancing lesson,
' Mr. Monroe Mrs. Monroe by James Thurber
Read by Guy Kingsley Poynter
' Mr. Monroe Outwits a Bat and ' Mr. Monroe and the Moving Men'
Jack Byfield and his Player3 with Frederic Curzon at the organ