BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, George Deason )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country
C. Gordon Glover and Eric Simms introduce personalities to talk about happenings in the countryside. The programme also includes recordings of December countryside sounds
Programme edited by Eric Simms
Produced by Bernard Lyons
by Bernard Wetherall
A weekly radio magazine for young listeners
Edited and produced by Lionel Gamlin
Happy Hogmanay
Tom Masson remembers some of the traditional New Year customs in his native Scotland, and illustrates a few of them for 'auld lang syne'
Stamp Collectors' Bulletin - 1953
Kenneth F. Chapman, Editor of Stamp Collecting, draws your attention to some recent stamp-news items of particular interest
Report in Rhythm
Billy Mayerl and the Fleeting Footnotes report for duty in the New Year with their latest musical resolutions
Let's Have a Story
Mary Field tells you the story of children's film-making in Britain, in an interview with Mary Hill
Such A Musical Creature
Michael Bell closes his gramophone-gallery of animal portraits by inviting you to listen to some remarkably musical fowls
Written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens with the Ray Ellington Quartet
Max Geldray
Bernard Monshin and the Concert Tango Orchestra
Programme introduced by Roy Williams
says
' Can I Come In? ' to some of the people of Tottenham, London
'Search ye the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and these are they which testify of me'
What does the Bible really say...?
Service conducted by the Rev. Austen Williams
From St. Alban's Church, Westbury Park, Bristol
Reader, Douglas Vaughan
Organist, R. L. Keens
From London, the tunes you have asked us to play. From Germany, the tunes that make them think of you
In London, Jean Metcalfe
In Hamburg, Dennis Scuse
in ' There's Music In My Heart' with the BBC Revue Orchestra
Production by Alfred Dunning
with Joe Loss and his Orchestra
Rose Brennan
Howard Jones
Presented by Rikki Fulton
Produced by Donald McLean
with Max Bygraves
Harry Secombe , Beryl Reid
Ronald Chesney , Peter Madden
Hattie Jacques s Kirkintilloch Junior Choir
Conducted by the Rev. J. R. MacPherson
BBC Revue Orchestra
Script by Eric Sykes
Produced by Roy Speer
A programme of stories and songs of the American people presented in a musical journey through the United States
This week : Kentucky
Highlights of the Show World
You are invited to listen to stars of the stage, screen, radio, and concert platform, with the BBC Revue Orchestra
Produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston
A winter programme looking back to last summer and forward to next
Memories of sunlit days
Plans for leisure to come with musical excursions conducted by Paul Fenoulhet and the Augmented Variety Orchestra
This week:
You are invited to come
' Walking in the Lake District' with Garry Hogg
On a trip to Holland with Michael Barsley and to listen to Noel Vincent 's hint* for would-be walkers and to your own holiday questions answered by a travel expert introduced by Franklin Engelmann
Edited by Bernard Lyons
Produced by Arthur Phillips
The story of John Philip Sousa with Debra Paget , Robert Wagner
Ruth Hussey , and Finlay Currie
An adaptation from the sound-track of the new Twentieth Century-Fox picture in Technicolor
Adapted by Gordon Gow Programme produced by Thurstan Holland
Val Guest plans his ideal day's entertainment for himself and his friends and Barbara McFadyean brings his plan to life with gramophone records
London v. Scotland
Fourth of eight contests
London
Hubert Phillips
Cedric Cliffe
Quiz-Master,Lionel Hale Scotland
Sir James Fergusson
Jack House
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
and Ben Lyon in ' LIFE WITH THE LYONS '
(Third series)
8-' Ben's Handicap'
A summary of events of the past week
(See columns 1 and 2)
Twenty-four hours in the life of an R.A.F. Bomber Squadron - April, 1943 by Wing-Commander E.W. Anderson, O.B.E., D.F.C., A.F.C.
Edited by Cynthia Pughe
Principal characters in order of speaking:
Community hymn-singing from the Albert Hall Methodist Mission, Nottingham. Hymns introduced by the Rev. Kenneth Waights , Superintendent
Organist, L. Gordon Thorp
Onward! Christian soldiers (M.H.B.
822: Tune, St. Gertrude)
Soldiers of Christ, arise (M.H.B. 484:
Tune, From Strength to Strength)
0 thou who cam'st from above
(M.H.B. 386: Tune, Wilton)
The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended
(M.H.B. 667: Tune, St. Clement)
Praise to the Holiest in the height
(M.H.B. 74: Tune, Gerontius)
We love the place, 0 God (M.H.B.
677: Tune. Quam Dilecta)
Sun of mv soul. thou Saviour dear
(M.H.B. 942: Tune, Abends)
Tom Jenkins and the Palm Court Orchestra with Nancy Thomas (contralto)
Robert Easton (bass)
(Continued in next column)
at the piano
Christian hymns, their music, and their meaning
It came upon the midnight clear
(Tune, Noel)
Give heed. my heart (Tune,
Von Himmel hoch)
Fill thou my life (Tune, Arden)
A programme of melody introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ
Records selected and introduced by Neal Arden
