John Watt introduces your request records
Peter Keane at the BBC theatre organ
Van Dam and his Orchestra
Conductor, David Curry plays traditional Irish airs
(Portsmouth)
Conducted by Major F. Vivian Dunn , M.V.O.
Director of Music
and his Orchestra
Edited by Lionel Gamlin
Saturday Showboat with Billy Mayerl and the Rhythm Players
Petula Clark , Enso Toppano
The Merrimakers
Interviews, talks, and discussions with and about today's personalities and events, including previews of English and Scottish League football and of the Prince Edward Handicap at Manchester
Introduced by Michael Brooke
Edited by Angus Mackay
Conductor, Rae Jenkins with Pamela Petts
and Mary Denise (soprano)
and his Sextet
at the BBC theatre organ
The Prince Edward Handicap
Commentary on the race by Richard North and Henry Green , assisted by Claude Harrison and Maurice Ring as race-readers
From Manchester Racecourse
Commentary by Raymond Glendenning on the second half.
From Fratton Park, Portsmouth
Jack Byfield and his Players with Frederic Curzon at the organ and Reginald Gibbs (baritone)
(Continued)
including football results
Association Football: Manchester United v Blackpool, by Henry Rose -Portsmouth v. Newcastle United, by Raymond Glendenning : Wolverhampton Wanderers v. Bolton Wanderers. by Teddy Eden : Swansea Town V. Doncaster Rovers, by E. R. K. Glover
Scottish League: Alan Breck on today's outstanding matches
Racing: Extracts from the commentary on the race for the Prince Edward Handicap
Talking Sport
A discussion about boxing Then and Now' between. O.L. Owen. who Began his career as a boxine correspondent in 1913. and Peter Wilson , who started writing about the sport in 1936 Introduced by Cliff Michelmore
Edited by Angus Mackay
Opening the new season with Freddy Randall and his Band from Newcastle
The R.A.F. Quintet plus two from London followed by some records of Jelly Roll
Morton's Red Hot Peppers Presented by Hector Stewart
Producer. Johnnie Stewart
Ballads, blues, and spirituals
The songs include:
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho Frankie and Johnny Mollv Malone One Meat Bill
Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
Introduced by Denis Preston
Production by Tom Ronald
on football
Gre Brouwenstijn (soprano)
Victoria Sladen (soprano)
Adele Leigh (soprano)
Owen Brannigan (bass-baritone)
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
From the Royal Albert Hall. London Opera and Viennese Dances
Herbert Lom takes you on an "Enchanted Journey" in which Leonard Cassini, at the piano, helps him to recall the sights and sounds of many places all over the world they like to remember.
(BBC recording)
Part 2
The log of the Crossett family's journey by car from Germany to the Mediterranean by Bob Crossett speaking from Genoa
9-Nice to Genoa
Lew Stone and his Orchestra Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band
The Johnny Paradise Orchestra with the Mermaids