Michael Miles introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

Robinson Cleaver at the BBC theatre organ

Band of H.M. Royal Marines
(Portsmouth)
Conducted by Major F. Vivian Dunn , M.v.o.
Director of Music

with Percy Bilsbury (tenor)

Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.
A story of country folk.

Ted Heath and his Music with Lita Roza , Jack Parnell
Dickie Valentine , Dennis Lotis Freddy Randall and his Band with Dinah Kaye
Introduced by David Jacobs
Produced by John Hooper

Conducted by John Hopkins

A programme for children under five
Today Catherine Edwards returns for her next four weeks as story-teller for our under-fives. This week she includes two favourites, Jean Sutcliffe 's story about Charlie and his big red bus tomorrow, and on Friday, ' Tumpy the Circus Elephant,' by Margaret Wallace. We have commented before on how our small listeners imagine their story-tellers in relation to themselves. They are a'so, we find, deeply interested in them as people-' Where do they live? Have they any little girls and boys and can they all come to tea ? ' Their interest extends also to the rwo singers. For many, George Dixon is ' the daddy ' and a small boy seeing a picture of Eileen Browne thought her ' a very nice little girt.' They feel concern for the welfare of all. One small boy hopes that the story-teller is not dead during her time off, while a five-year-old girl, hearing of someone who died from a fall in the frosty weather, worried lest the same should happen to any of our story-tellers. Her sister allayed this fear—' George will look after our ladies,' she said. ' You see,' adds the writer of the letter, the twins think you are George's wives I
Elizabeth A. Taylor

Introduced by Mary Hill and Including
' Take Another Look': John Berger describes how the painter sees things, and what he means by beauty and ugliness
(Continued in next column)
' Reading Your Letters': a programme based on the comments, ideas, and anecdotes sent by listeners to Woman's Hour '
' Unfinished Story': a New Zealand poet, Phyllis Duncan Brown , tells how she came ' home ' to an unknown country-England
Child Guidance Cliric. ' This boy could do much better if he tried ': the medical director, the psychologist, and the psychiatric social worker consider the case of a secondary schoolboy whose father thinks he is lazy.
Serial: Moment in Peking,' by Lin Yutang. Abridged by Audrey Jones. Read by Gladys Young

Dulcet Strings directed by Frank Stewart

Britain and America
Two Democracies at Work
1 — ' Our Cousins across the Atlantic '
In this series E. A. Helms of the State University of Ohio. U.S.A.. and K. C. Boawell of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, compare the British and American democracies
In their first programme the speakers show how and why the democratic ideas developed along different lines in Britain and the United States

Roland Peachey and his May Fair Orchestra

Script by Lesley Wilson
To be repeated tomorrow at 11.0 a.m. Last week Mrs. Dale developed a severe cold and spent a few days in bed. All the family brought her odds and ends of mending to do. Mrs. Freeman and Mrs. Morgan had ' a few words ' over cooking the lunch. Mrs. Date's cold improved and she got up but it left her very irritable and Mrs. Freeman suggested to the Doctor that they should have the proposed weekend in town now as it was obvious Mrs. Dale needed a rest.
(Continued in next column)
Principal characters this week:

Peggy Cochrane at the piano

by Edgar Wallace
Adapted and produced by Martyn C. Webster

(Continued)

A slice of life served up for family listening by Gwenda Morris and Tony East
Wheelers' Wiles
'Parade' seeks out some expert cyclists and picks up tips on long distance, sprint, and cycle speed-way
First Appearance
Tondu Youth Choir of the Aberkenfig Youth Club
Up My Street-5
Richard Dimbleby talks about mood music
Something Wrong Somewhere
Hubert Phillips pops the question
You're Only Young Once
The everyday adventures of the Caldicott family
Script by Edward J. Mason 21 - ' No place like home - or is there ? '

A two-way exchange of a variety of music between Radio Italiana in Turin and the BBC
From Turin:
Lina Pagiliughi
Francesco Albanese
Pome-ranz and Brandi
Luciano Farcelli
Sei Ragazzl in Gamba
(The Radio Boys)
Coro dii Radio Torino
(Chorus-Master, Giulio Mogliotti)
Orchestra di Torino della Radio Italiana
Conducted by Tito Petralia and Cesare Gallino
Compere, Lola Boni
From London:
Pearl Carr
Owen Brannigam
Tommy Reilly
The George Mitchell Singers Augmented Dance Orchestra Conducted by Stanley Black
Compere, Jacques Brown
Produced in Turin by Maestro Grassl and in London by Jacques Brown

Talking of Songs and singing to the accompaniment of a section of the BBC Revue Orchestra with Charles Smart at the organ
Conductor, Robert Busby
Produced by Michael North

Heralding Variety in the North with the Kordites Jimmy Leach , Len Marten
Kay Cavendish , Freddie Sales
Josef Locke , Derek Roy
Raiy Martin and his Orchestra
Presented by Bowker Andrews

and his Orchestra
The Sam Browne Singers

' The Vessel of Wrath ' by Somerset Maugham
Reader, Howard Marion-Crawford
Part 1

The Pavilion Players directed by David Wolfsthal with Bernard Bowen (piano)