Peter Haigh introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the organ of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

The Jimmy Leach Organolian Quartet

Light Orchestra
Conductor, David Curry

' First Things First' by Anita Calderon
Read by Randal Herley

and his Orchestra with Annette Klooger and Brian Clarke

(Leader, J. Mouland Begbde )
Conducted by Alexander Gibson
Malcolm Arnold's second symphony was performed for the first time at Bournemouth earlier this year. I feel sure that the composer would agree that this time of day is as good as any for its performance, for he has himself drawn attention to its gay and light-hearted themes. This applies especially to the last movement, whose mam tune has a swaggering and comic lilt that will keep us whistling for the rest of the afternoon. There is, none the less, a sombre and elegiac third movement that is equally impressive, while the whole work reveals that happy certainty of orchestration which is one of Arnold's supreme gifts. Ernest Bradbury

Seventh Birthday Celebration
Listeners who share Woman's Hour birthday meet some of their. favourite personalities at the microphone
'I Heard Tell....': W. R. Rodgers, the Irish poet, recalls some of the tales he has heard
Other People's Lives: Francesca French, who spent fifteen years in the Gobi Desert as a missionary, talks to Joan Yorke. (BBC recording)
Serial: ' The Mill on the Floss' by George Eliot
Abridged and read by Natalie Moya
The programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Eugene Pini and his Tango Orchestra

at the BBC theatre organ

Michael Freedman and his Orchestra

(Leader,Philip Whiteway )
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
John Hunt (piano)

Music of the sunny south played by the Southern Serenade Orchestra directed by Lou Whiteson

Kay Cavendish at the piano

A programme on things to read and see, presented mainly by under-twenties
Introduced by John Boorman
Janet Brighton on ' Little Boy Lost': the film from the novel by Marghanita Laski , starring Bing Crosby
Peter Deitch on ' The Doctor and the Devils': the story of the Burke and Hare murders, retold in film script form by Dylan Thomas
Guest, Frank Tilsley

Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.
A story of country folk.

followed by

with the original trio of blockheads
Harold Berens
Gladys Hay
Michael Moore and their harassed quizmaster,
Patrick Burns
Richard Gray
Sid Millward and the Nitwits with Wally Stewart
Script by Ronnie Hanbury and George Wadmore
Produced by George Inns

Tunes you have asked us to play, including some records chosen by Service men and women from overseas

with a section of the BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet and Alan Dell
Musical arrangements by Tony Osborne
Produced by John Hooper

Eugene Pinl plays light popular pieces written or transcribed for the violin

' Dangerous Trade ' by Gilbert Hackforth-Jones
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Reader, Norman Shelley
3—' Wounded '

Conducted by Lou Whiteson