Robert MacDermot introduces your request records
Charles Smitton at the BBC theatre organ
No. 4 Regional Band of the Royal Air Force
(by permission of the Air Council)
Conducted by Flying Officer C. F. Johnson
Director of Music
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Jonquil Antony
Oscar Rabin and his Band
' Sentimental Value'
Written and read by Gerald Bullett
A colourful light entertainment given by Harry Dawson
The Michael Krein Saxophone Quartet
Mantovani and his Orchestra
Conductor, Mansel Thomas
A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories, and music
‛ Twinkle, twinkle, little star ’ is one of the well-loved nursery rhymes which the under-fives have been singing with us since Easter, and which they will hear again this week. It is one, however, that has brought us a few reproaches. ' Why,' asks one writer, ‛is your tune different from the original? Why,' asks another, ' did you not choose the better-known tune? ’
These comments illustrate our dilemma as broadcasters. Where there is more than one accepted tune to a nursery rhyme, a mother at home can choose which she likes to sing to her baby, and it makes no difference if other mothers sing another tune. But we are broadcasting to a large and widespread audience, and what is ‛ right ’ or better-known ' for some is ‛ wrong ’ or unfamiliar for others, and for most of us the ' right tune is the one that established itself in our affections because we learned it first as a small child. Indeed, in the case of ' Twinkle, twinkle, little star' we can hardly speak of a ' right ' tune in any other sense, for this little rhyme apparently began its history as the first verse of a children's poem, and as time went on it picked up tunes that fitted its rhythm. Elizabeth A. Taylor
Introduced by Olive Shapley
' Good Cooking with Gelatine,' by Hilda Whitlow
Today's Guest: ‛Grist to the Mill,' by Kathleen Hale
' Field Work,' by Nancy Morrison
' The May Tree': some facts and legends of the hawthorn flower by Leslie DaJiken.
Serial: ‛Jane Eyre ,' by Charlotte Bronte. Abridged by Margaret Lane. Read by Patience Collier
King Palmer and his Orchestra
The Mother of Parliaments
4-The Talking Shop'
The House of Commons at work
Robert McKenzie has been listening to some recent debates in Parliament and gives his impressions of what he saw and heard
Primo Scala and his Accordion Band
Principal characters this week:
by Lance Sieveking
Produced by Cleland Finn
(Continued)
(piano) on gramophone records
Owen Walters and his Orchestra
Geraldo and his Orchestra featuring ' Songs with Strings '
including cricket close of play scores
Eamonn Andrews puts all the questions, and Gladys Hay , Harold Berens , and Michael Moore know none of the answers
The Cherokeys, with Frank Baron
The Dixielanders
Script by Ronnie Hanbury Produced by Tom Ronald
Radio's musical rendezvous where you can hear
Raymond Cohen (violin)
Rawicz and Landauer and Peter Dawson with the Majestic Orchestra Conducted by Lou Whiteson
Your host, Alan Skempton
Direction, Campbell Ricketts
Tunes you have asked us to play
with John Rorke
Mai Bacon
Terry Wilson
Leslie Sarony
The Ballad Singers
Hetty King
Supported by George Street , Connie Fraser
Harry Loman , Marie Saunders
Ricardo Pasquale
Palace of Varieties Chorus
BBC Variety Orchestra
Show produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe
and his Orchestra
‛ Trent’s Last Case by E. C. Bentley
Reader, Stephen Jack
1—‛ Knocking the town endways '
The Stradivari Orchestra
Directed by Michael Spivakovsky with Irene Kohler (piano)
