Bob Danvers-Walker introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
Louis Mordish at the BBC theatre organ
Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players
Script by Jonquil Antony
Guest conductor, Alex Mortimer
' Devonshire Dumplings ' by H. Jackson
Told by Lewis Gedge
at the BBC theatre organ
(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
A programme for children under five
A daily programme for women at home
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson and including
' Hobbies for Winter Evenings ' : 3—'Rag Rugs,' by Lucie Aldridge
' Out in the Open'—2. John Burton , Medical Director of the Central Council for Health Education, discusses tuberculosis
' The London Dress Shows ':
Elisabeth Dennis reports
'The Week-end Shopping Basket': Margaret Ryan gives listeners in the North of England an idea of what is available just now
' From a Man's Point of View':
Stewart Spicer talks about married women who go out to work
Serial: Last Voyage ' by Ann Davison. Abridged by Henry Bentinck. Read by Cecile Chevreau
and his Band with Marie Benson and Mark Pasquin
A weekly programme dealing with important world events
The Indian Elections
Recently the people of India, in the villages and in the big cities, have been voting in the first General Election under the new Constitution. This programme, based on BBC on-the-spot reports, describes this great experiment in democracy and examines the results
Joseph Muscant and his Orchestra
The music you have asked for introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ
BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Pnul Fenoulhet with Dinah Kaye and Newton Goodson
Introduced by John Webster
at Corsham
Young people in Wiltshire discuss with Paul Cherrington whether the behaviour of youth is getting worse
In the chair, Douglas Allan
A story of country folk.
Raymond Glendenning on tomorrow's fixtures
with Kitty Bluett
Peter Sellers , Patricia Hayes Graham Stark , Charles Leno John Hanson , The King's Men
Introduced by Roy Plomley
The Ladies: Yvonne Arnaud, Valerie Hobson, Margot Holden
v.
The Gentlemen: Gerard Hoffnung, Kenneth Horne, Reginald Purdell
The Jury: Three members of Gordon Skelt Andrew's Ilford Girls' Choir
(BBC recording)
(Yvonne Arnaud is appearing in "Colombe" at the New Theatre, London; Margot Holden, at the Windmill Theatre, London)
(1952 edition) with Hilda Meacham
Gilbert Gordon
Bob E. Raymond
Jack Warman
Maudie Edwards
Morris and Cowley
Chairman, Rob Currie assisted by Billy Howard with the Palace of Varieties Chorus and the BBC Variety Orchestra
Script by Harry Loman
Produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe
Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by A. G. Street
George Darling , m.p.
Collin Brooks
Wilson Harris
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Nicholas Crocker
From the British Railways Mechanics' Institution, Swindon
(Home)
Today this programme celebrates its third birthday. Five hundred talks have been given since the series began in 1949
and his Mayfair Music with Frank Holmes
Diana Coupland , Russ Allen
* Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Reader, Roger Snowdon
10—' Catherine and Linton Heathcliff '
Jack Byfield and his Players with Frederic Curzon at the organ