George Elrick introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
Reginald Dixon at the organ of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool
Eric Winstone and his Orchestra
Light Orchestra
(Leader, William Mclnulty )
Conductor, David Curry
' The Man They Can't Sack '
Written and told by Tom Hopkinson
and his Music Makers with Lorna Haven and Maurice Allen
(Led by Garfield Phillips)
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Philip Whiteway (violin)
A programme for the under-fives
from Wales
Introduced by Nan Davies and including
' A Thousand before Lunch':
Eluned Davies describes the hectic scenes at an enrolment centre for evening classes
'N or M?' or 'What's Your
Name?': some reflections on Christian names by the Rev. W. Hugh Rees
' Draenen Wen: the story of a bungalow' by Elizabeth Sheppard-Jones. When the speaker became paralysed from the waist down she found that a wheeled chair was a necessity, and a liability. Wheeled chairs cannot climb steps, so she had her own bungalow built, where according to her ' there is nothing. absolutely nothing I cannot do '
' Tweeds and Ostrich Feathers ' : Hugh M. Thomas , a young hat designer at Caernarvon, gives some advice particularly to country women
Serial: To Let Furnished,' by Josephine Bell. Abridged by Michael Bell. Read by Patience Collier
The Rendezvous Players featuring Jack Collings with Alf Edwards (concertina)
at the BBC theatre organ
Band of the Royal Army Medical Corps
Conducted by Capt. L. D. Brown
Director of Music
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Lesley Wilson
BBC Northern Orchestra
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
(Continued)
Geraldo and his Orchestra featuring ' Songs with Strings ' with Jill Day and Bob Dale
on gramophone records
President: Michael Bell
Modern Music
4--Opera
Tonight's guest: Hervey Alan
What sort of operas have been written in this century? In this talk you hear music from operas by such composers as Puccini and Richard Strauss , as well as by Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten.
A story of country folk.
A programme featuring unknown British artists
BBC Variety Orchestra
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
Adapted for broadcasting by Raymond Byrnes and Monica Mugan from the novel by Irwin Shaw
Other parts played by Mary Wimbush and Tony Quinn
Produced by Cleland Finn
Al Read takes a light-hearted look at life in company with The Kordites and the augmented
Northern Variety Orchestra Conducted by Vilem Tausky
Produced by Ronnie Taylor
and his Orchestra with Annette Klooger
Brian Clarke and Alan Reeves
' Swan Song ' by John Galsworthy
Reader, Ronald Simpson
3—' Soames is apprehensive '
Troise and his Mandoliers with Ashley Crawford (tenor)