John Watt introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
Nelson Elms at the BBC theatre organ
Band of the Scots Guards
Conducted by Major S. Rhodes , M.B.E .
Director of Music
and his Miniature Orchestra with Colin Cunningham (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
(Leader, Philip Whiteway )
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Iris Loveridge (piano)
A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes, stories and music
We have noted before that one of the most loved of the pieces of music we have so far chosen to open these programmes for our under-fives has been the lively ' Chinese Dance ' from Tchaikovsky'3 ' Nutcracker Suite,' happily named by one little boy the ' Crack-a-Nut ' Suite. Another excerpt from the same work, the gentle ' Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy,' seems also to have pleased our small listeners, and it is this that they will hear again at the beginning of the programmes this week. ' The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts '-and the memories of little children perhaps even longer! The mother of a boy of three when asked what the introductory music was called told him the ' Nutcracker Suite.' He didn't answer, and then, quite five minutes later, he said: * A long time ago when Mummie was sick, and Martin did stay wiv Grannie, Grannie did cut nuts open wiv nutcrackers and she did give him one in each handl '
This visit to Grannie had happened some months before when Martin was only two, and the title of our music had stirred the memory of a long-forgotten experience.
Elizabeth A. Taylor
A daily programme for women at home
Introduced by Mary Hill and including:
'Siesta at Two-Thirty': McDonald Prain reflects on a summer in Majorca
'200,000 Answers': Mrs. M.D. Law describes her work as Managing Editor of the new edition of Chambers's Encyclopaedia, for which she was awarded the O.B.E. in the New Year's Honours List.
Discussion Time. 'Should the price of proprietary goods be fixed by the manufacturer or the shopkeeper?' A discussion between W. T. Williams, M.P. (Labour) and lain Macleod, M.P. (Conservative). Introduced by Evelyn Gibbs
Serial: 'Love Story' by Ruth McKenny. Abridged by Evelyn Gibbs. Read by Peggy Hassard
Troise and his Mandoliers with Ashley Crawford (tenor)
Britain and America
Two Democracies at Work
2 — ' Written and Unwritten '
E. A. Helms of the State University of Ohio, U.S.A.. and K. C. Boswell of the Royal Military Academy, Sand-hurst, talk about the British and American Constitutions. They discuss their main differences and the ways in which they can be changed
The Robin Richmond Trio
Script by Jonquil Antony
Last week Dr. and Mrs. Dale, Gwen, Bob, and Alec arrived at the hotel where they spent the week-end to celebrate the three hundred pounds the doctor had been left. While Dr. Dale and Bob were in the bar they got into conversation with a Mr. Chester. Later Mr. Chester knocked a glass of beer over Dr. Dale. When the Dales were leaving for the theatre Dr. Dale discovered the money had been taken from his wallet. Alec suddenly announced he would not be able to go to the theatre with them after all. Alec returned later with the doctor's money and a strange story about getting his wallet mixed with the doctor's. Sally guessed that Mr. Chester was a crook and Alec admitted that Mr. Chester had once done him a good turn. Mrs. Dale prepared for Sally's birthday. Sally bought herself a car and the tenants of her cottage gave notice.
Principal characters this week:
Peggy Cochrane at the piano
by Edgar Wallace
Adapted by Hugh Stewart and Archie Campbell
by Edgar Wallace
(Continued)
at the BBC theatre organ
Script by Edward J. Mason
Produced by David H. Godfrey
A slice of life
Open Verdict on the First Job
Third in a series of pocket features on the unscripted opinions of the under-twenties, recorded in factories, canteens, and youth clubs
The everyday adventures of the Caldicott family
Script by Edward J. Mason
22 — ' Colin has a Black Monday'
A series of domestic comedies written by Bebe Daniels ,
Bob Block , and Bill Harding
16—' Three Little Pigs Stayed at Home'
with Barbara Lyon , Richard Lyon
Doris Rogers , Molly Weir
Horace Percival , Ian Sadler and David Enders
Tunes you have asked us to play
by Charles Dickens
Adapted as a serial for broadcasting in eight instalments by Philip Wade
1 — 'David Looks upon the World'
Produced by Archie Campbell
Heralding Variety in the North with the Kordites
Ribton and Richards
Roy Lester
Rex Ramer
Douglas (Cardew) Robinson
Cavan O'Connor
Al Read.
Ray Martin and his Orchestra
Presented by Bowker Andrews
and his Band
' The Hairless Mexican' by Somerset Maugham
Reader, John Sharp
Parti
The Spa Orchestra directed by Tom Jenkins with Doris Hibbert (piano)
