Australia v. England
From the Cricket Ground at Melbourne
Commentary during the last half-hour of the fourth day's play
Commentators:
Alan MaGUvray , Victor Richardson
A. G. Moyes , Bernard Kerr and Arthur Gilligan
Introduced by Robert MacDermot
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
Andrew Fenner at the BBC theatre organ
Arthur Salisbury and his Orchestra
and his Sextet
Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.
A story of country folk.
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Robert Busby with Joan Butler (soprano)
Introduced by John de Manio
Fantasy-Overture. Hamlet (Tchaikovsky): Hall Orchestra, conducted by Constant Lambert
Piano Concerto in A minor (Schumann): Moura Lympany (piano) with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Royalton Kisch
Dance of the Persian Slave Khovanshchina) (Mussorgsky, orch.
Rimsky-Korsakov): Royal Philhar-monicOrchestra, conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham. Bt. on gramophone records
A programme for children under five
Introduced by Jean Metcalfe and including
' Vanity Fair: I'm no beauty at bedtime! ' by Isabel Merrett
Margaret Stock ' Up from the Country '
' For Your Information': Arthur Marriott talks about names and birth certificates
' I Like Spiders': Margaret Lane tells how she came to change her mind about spiders
' Life Down Under': Myra Roper, an Englishwoman who since 1946' has been Principal of the Women's College in the University of Melbourne, discusses some of the differences in daily life here and in Australia
Serial: ‘Love Story ' by Ruth McKenny. Abridged by Evelyn Gibbs. Read by Peggy Hassard
The Gwendwr Players and Gordon Parfitt (bass)
Working Order
3 — ‘ Loss of Power '
Fielden Hughes talks about putting words together to say things with the right amount of force
The Dick Denny Orchestra
BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Elsie Eaves (soprano)
(Continued)
at the BBC theatre organ
and his Rio Tango Band
President, Frank Daunton
Makers of Music
3 — ‘Wood and Reeds '
Two experts, Frederick Thurston and Nat Temple, discuss techniques in orchestra and dance bands
Adventures in the exciting early days of the famous Force
Written by Max Kester
Episode 7
Produced by Jacques Brown
with Wallas Eaton
The Keynotes
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Robert Busby
Script by Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Produced by Charles Maxwell
Tunes you have asked us to play
Stanley Black and the Augmented Dance Orchestra with Pearl Carr
Teddy Johnson and the Merrymakers
' Main Street' by Sinclair Lewis
Reader, Charles Richardson
Part 2
and his Serenade Orchestra