Sam Pollock introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
Bobby Pagan at the BBC theatre organ
Primo Scala and his Accordion Band
(The Blues)
Conducted by Capt. David McBain
Director of Music
' Soft Answer '
Written and read by Hilton Brown
at the BBC theatre organ
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, Charles Groves
From the Town Hall, Manchester, by invitation of Manchester Corporation
and his Orchestra with Jean Campbell , David Carey and the Staplejacks
A programme for children under five
Introduced by Mary Hill and including
' Backyard Gardens': M. Spencer Smith gives some practical advice to those who would like a garden but have only a backyard
' For Your Information’ : an officer of the Ministry of National Insurance answers some of your questions
' Canadian Chautauqua': Monica Mugan describes her travels with a fit-up theatre in Canada
' It's Horse Sense': a discussion on intelligence in animals by James Fisher , William Aspden , and Maxwell Knight
Serial: ' Emma ' by Jane Austen. Abridged by Ursula Wood. Read by Julia Lang
Half an hour's music presented by Peter Fettes with June Harwood (contralto)
Elena Kudian (piano)
Robert McKenzie , a Canadian observer, contributes some notes on recent events and introduces a guest speaker who discusses a topical theme. The programme concludes with ' This week's talking-points'
The Promenade Players
Conductor, Sidney Bowman
Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ
and his Samba Orchestra
BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, George Deason )
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet with Dinah Kaye , Eric Whitley
Introduced by Franklin Engelmann
Bassett Road (Camborne)
Girls' School Choir
Conductor, Gladys Hendy with Kenneth Ellis (bass)
Kathleen Frazier (piano)
Introduced by Bernard Fishwick
A story of country folk.
on tomorrow's fixtures
Tunes you have asked us to play
Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by A. G. Street
Graham Hutton
Tom Driberg ,
M.P. John Betjeman
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
From the Central Hall,
Guernsey, Channel Islands
Produced by Nicholas Crocker
with Horace Mashford
Barbara Leigh
Gilbert Gordon
George Betton
Shaun Glenville
Dorothy Ward
Chairman, George Street
Supported by Billy Howard , Connie Fraser
Harry Loman , Richard Pasquale with the Palace of Varieties Chorus and the BBC Variety Orchestra Show produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe
A romance of the Great Exhibition of 1851 by Dorothy Hewlett
Adapted for broadcasting by Jon Manchip White
6— ‛The Duke and the Regent'
Other parts played by Lewis Stringer , Ronald Sidney , and James Page
Production by David H. Godfrey
Edited version of recorded commentaries by Raymond Glendenning, with inter-round summaries by Dudley Lister, on some of the bouts during tonight's Finals at the Empire Pool and Sports Arena, Wembley
and his Metropole Orchestra on gramophone records
' A Dumsel in Distress ' by P. G. Wodehouse
Reader, Richard Hurndall
10— ‛Lord Marshmoreton visits George'
and his Music Makers with Anne Lenner and Johnny Johnston