Gramophone records chosen by Servicemen and women Overseas. with each tune introduced by the man or woman who chose it, in recordings made on the spot
In London, Marjorie Anderson
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
The Jimmy Leach Organolian Quartet
Conductor, William Pethers with Jean Carpenter (soprano)
Music recorded by some of the youth bands of Britain
Presented by Harry Mortimer
(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conducted by Harold Gray
Marjorie Blackburn (piano)
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson and including
' Voices in London': some of Britain's Coronation visitors come to the studio
' Behind the Headlines': a weekly feature to fill in the background to some recent news .events
London Fashion Fortnight: Veronica Papworth reports on what she has seen during these two weeks when Britain's fashion merchandise is on show to buyers from all over the world
' Meeting for Music ' : Yvonne Arnaud and Sophie Wyss meet to sing, play, and talk about some of the music they enjoy
Serial: '-Queen Victoria' by Lytton Strachey. Abridged by Evelyn Gibbs. Read by Ronald Simpson
with Rita Williams
Harry Bolton , and Billy Richards
The Richard Crean Orchestra
at the BBC theatre organ
Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth with songs from Lea Howard
David Lloyd James invites you to listen again to some of the broadcasts that took place during this week last year
The Gurkhas make their contribution to the Coronation band programmes
Music, songs, and dances by the Coronation contingent from the 6th and 7th Gurkha Rifles and the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
Introduced by Roy Williams
Produced by Laurence Stapley
Tuneful topicalities and a rhyming commentary on the week's doings by B.C. Hilliam
The Light Programme's Evening Out on the River
7.40 Journey Downstream Step aboard the launch 'Odelia' with Wynford Vaughan Thomas, and join his Canadian and Australian colleagues Capt. W.E.S. Briggs, R.C.N. (Rtd.) and Talbot Duckmanton in a trip down river to Greenwich, where the launch ties up alongside...
8.0 The Show Boat' staged on the L.C.C. paddle-steamer 'Will Crooks' at Greenwich Pier, manned by Jon Pertwee, Bob and Alf Pearson, Lee Lawrence, Freddie Sales, Dora Bryan, Julie Andrews, and Bernard Spear. Guests at the 'Greatest Show on Water' will be Max Miller and Rawicz and Landauer. Music by the Mitchell Mariners and Ray Terry's Crewmen, conducted by Phil Cardew. The show written by James Grafton, Peter Griffiths, John Vyvyan, and produced by Dennis Main Wilson.
9.30 'Palace of Varieties'
You are invited to travel a little inland to the Empire Memorial Hostel of the British Sailors Society in Commercial Road for a Coronation night celebration with Margery Manners, John Rorke, Sidney Burchall, Harry Levaine, and Hetty King. Rob Currie is Chairman and the show will be in the capable hands of Ernest Longstaffe.
10.0 Back to Broadcasting House for The News
10.15 River Revels From the Show Boat hung with bunting and lit with fairy lights, there is dancing to the music of Joe Loss and his Orchestra with Rose Brennan, Howard Jones, and Toni Venfro.
11.12 Wynford Vaughan Thomas says goodbye from the launch 'Odelia'
The River Axe by Gurney A. Grattan
The river is followed in its journey from the hills to the sea. The extraordinary variety of the life in it and near its banks is suggested by many different scenes
Edited and produced by Brandon Acton-Bond
