George Elrick introduces your request records
Joseph Seal at the organ of the Ritz Cinema, Belfast
Portland Light Orchestra
Directed by Fred Alexander
Conducted by H. C. Burgess
' The Prince's Birthday Present' by Anthony Armstrong
Read by Dennis Fraser
(by permission of the Air Council)
Conducted by Wing-Cdr.
A. E. Sims , M.B.E . Organising Director of Music
Royal Air Force
Conductor, Charles Groves
Alfred Livesley (oboe)
A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
Introduced by Olive Shapley
Request Week
' Lambs and Primroses,' by Edith Nelder
' Handicapped Children.' Two mothers, Marjorie Shave and Josephine Harrison , compare notes on how the family can help a disabled child
'Housewives Abroad.' 'Housewife in Asmara': Heather Lee, who lives in Eritrea, describes life in Asmara, that city of contrasts on the top of a mountain in north-east Africa
(The recorded broadcast of March 10)
' London Window Box,' by Alan Melville
James McKechnie reads his own selection of poems
Anton and his Orchestra
'Brave New World
Stephen Potter introduces ' Brave New World ' by Aldous Huxley
Huxley, writing soon after World War I. saw science not as a simple power for good, but as something which might turn human beings into machines.
Stan Atkins , 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 a psychotherapist
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Grahame Clifford (baritone)
(Continued)
A musical handshake between
London and the Continent
This week from Holland
The Metropole Orchestra
Conductor, Dolf van der Linden
Singer, Tony van Hulst Solo piano. Manny Oets
James Moody at the piano
Ralph Wilson and his Dance Orchestra
The music you have asked for introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ
Tunes you have asked us to play
A series of dramatic character studies of successful people
4-Steve Donoghue champion jockey
Written by Stephen Grenfell with a postscript by Pat Donoghue , Steve Donoghue 's son
Produced by Peter Eton
invites you to its meeting at the Town Hall. Lewisham, London with the Glee Club Sextet led by Harold Smart
Tonight's guests are Bromley and District
Male Voice Choir
Master of Ceremonies,
Leslie Mitchell
Producer,
Dennis Main Wilson
with Archie Filer
Albert Ward and Les Ward
Eva Beynon
Harry Secombe
Frank James
Ann Walters
Frank Davison
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
Each week Victor Silvester gives you a ten-minute dancing lesson, followed by thirty minutes of dance music played by his Ballroom Orchestra
Produced by David Miller
Sanders of the River by Edgar Wallace
Read by Laidman Browne
13— 'The Seer'
Jack Byfield and his Players with Frederic Curzon at the organ