Jerry Desmonde introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

Vic Hammett at the BBC theatre organ
Selection: Turn Back the Clock
Piccadilly Promenade. Henry Croudson Selection: Down Charing Cross Road

Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players

and his Band with Terry Devon and Paul Vaughan

' Science and Civilisation '
Written and told by Moultrie R. Kelsall

Light Orchestra
(Leader, William Mclnulty )
Conductor, David Curry

(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Eric Hope (piano)

A programme for children under five

Introduced by Jean Metcalfe
Guest of the Week:
Jessie Matthews
' Going Walkies ': Alan Melville talks about his dog
' From Bed to Blackboard,' by Gladys Bird
The speaker, who from 1940 to 1949 learned to resign herself to the knowledge that she was bedridden for life, tells of the last two years and the treatment that led to her return to her job as a school-teacher.
' Do Animals Play?': discussion between James Fisher , Maxwell Knight , and William Aspden
Most of us at some time have watched animals at play. The speakers, who are all naturalists, discuss whether this has any biological significance or whether they play, as humans do, just for the fun of it.
Serial: Poor Miss Finch ' by Wilkie Collins , abridged by Ursula Torday. Read by Helen Burns
For the Woman Listener facing inside back cover

and his Players

Speaker, Paul Bareau

Carlton Main
Frickley Colliery Band
Conducted by George Hespe

Script by Jonquil Antony
Principal characters this week

Geraldo and his Orchestra featuring ' Songs with Strings' with Jill Day , Bob Dale and Derrick Francis

(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by Clarence Raybould

Fela Sowande at the piano

Peter Keane at the BBC theatre organ

A story of country folk.

give you the songs and tunes you have asked to hear
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Robert Busby

(With the exception of tonight's performance, Donovan Winter is appearing in ' The Young Elizabeth ' at the New Theatre, London)

on gramophone records

brings back personalities he has met during the past six years
Musical illustrations by Violet Carson
Presented by Barney Colehan

and his Orchestra with Julie Dawn
Joan Anderson , Franklyn Boyd
The Stagecoachers and the Highwaymen

' The Egoist ' byGeorge Meredith
Reader, Walter Hudd
13—'A Perceptive Mind'

Directed by Reg Pursglove