Godfrey Winn introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the organ of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool
Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players
Sidney Bright at the piano
(Leader, William Mclnulty )
Conductor, David Curry
and his Music-Makers with Dennis Hale and Marion Davis
Overture: Carnaval (Dvorak) : Czech
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Oboe Concerto in one movement
(Eugene Goossens ; Leon Goossens with the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind
Suite: Mother Goose (Ravel):
London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fernando Previtali on gramophone records
A programme for children under five
Woman's Hour becomes Everybody's Hour
In this programme for the holiday season you hear :
' A Thorn in the Heart': a novel by T. 0 Beachcroft , abridged by Charles Hatton , read in serial form by Kelty MacLeod
' I Like This': records chosen by a Woman's Hour personality
This week, Minnie Pallister
' Old Folks' Corner': a place of their own for the over sixty-fives
Presented by Stuart Hibberd and Richard Tatlock
Programme introduced by Roy Williams
Bunny Laikin and his Romantic Players with Ashley Crawford (tenor)
at the BBC theatre organ
The Richard Crean Orchestra
(Leader,Philip Whiteway )
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
David Ffrangeon-Thomas (cello)
at the BBC theatre organ
and his Orchestra with Patti Forbes
Kenny Bardell and Gordon Langhorn and the Maokipies
A programme about open-air sights, sounds, and activities, presented for family listening by comperes and commentators of the Younger Generation
This week's compere Is
Keith Lloyd
Week-end Aloft
Reports by young participants in the National Gliding Championship at Great Hucklow, with expert advice on how to take up the sport, and impressions recorded by a beginner during a trial flight
' What's Your Weather?'
Conclusions on the weather contest. The experts, J. S. Sawyer and V. R. Coles of the Meteorological Office, and the amateur eighteen-year-old Roy Fox compare notes on the problems and possibilities of weather forecasting
(Continued in next column)
Open Air Quiz
Scotland, the youth champions of the British Isles. have been challenged to a two-round contest on countryside pursuits by Ross Salmon (ex-cowboy and cattle rancher), Steven Marshall (Headmaster of llkeston Grammar School), and Joan Barlee. Girl Guide County Camp Adviser, Staffordshire
In the chair. Jack Longland
See column 1
A radio diversion for the whole family
Informally introduced by Rex Palmer
This Week You Meet:
Betty Marsden Robb Wilton in 'Councillor Muddlecombe, J.P.'
Bransby Williams
'Midge's Choice' Wilson Midgley talks about new books he has enjoyed reading, and Mary Wimbush, Deryck Guyler, Diana Maddox, Janet Morrison, Hamilton Dyce, and Cicely Hoye at the piano, present scenes from them
Leisure Serenade with Patricia Baird
A Wandering Minstrel with John Cameron
Alan Paul at the piano
The musical director is Paul Fenoulhet
BBC Variety Orchestra provides the music
Incidental music composed by Alan Paul
Production is by Alfred Dunning and Richard Keen
(BBC recording)
(Betty Marsden is appearing in Airs on a Shoestring' at the Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London) at 8.0)
C. Gordon Glover and Eric Simms introduce people to talk about happenings in the countryside
Produced by Bernard Lyons
Songs to sweeten your slumbers sung and played by Dorothy Carless and Bob Harvey and dreamed up by Jimmy Dyren ,forth
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
' Charley Moon ' by Reginald Arkell
Reader, Ivan Samson
8-' An Author
Writes a Play for Charley'
Reginald Leopold and his Players