Peter Sinclair introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
Falkman and his Apache Band
and his Band with Jean Campbell and David Carey
' Modern Magic,' by Janet Swaine
Read by Rolf Lefebvre
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted. by Alexander Gibson
. BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet with Olga Gwynne
Today's story:
' Loofah,' by Rosamund Marshall told by Julia Lang
including:
All Right on the Night: John Bourne offers some hints to amateur actors and producers
(Continued in next column)
My Book of the Year: three speakers well known to Woman's Hour discuss and recommend some books they have enjoyed in 1953 People I've Known, by Leslie Paul. 3-The Schoolmaster
Sew Like a Pro.: Alice Hooper Beck gives a series of talks on taking the ' home-made' look out of dressmaking. 4-All about the skirt, including placket and hem
Serial: The Franchise Affair' by Josephine Tey
Abridged by Honor Wyatt
Read by James McKechnie
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
and his Mandoliers
Ashley Crawford (tenor)
(Continued in next column)
Ken Beaumont and his Sextet
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Joan Carr-Jone *
Commonwealth artists entertain featuring
John Hauxvell , Eve Boswell
Shirley Abioair , Alan Rowe
BBC Revue Orchestra (Leader, David Paget )
Conductor. Harry Rabinowitz
Introduced by Aidan MacDermot
Produced by David Miller
at the BBC theatre organ
The Cosmopolitan Orchestra
on gramophone records
A slice of life presented for family listening by comperes and commentators of the Younger Generation
The World at Your Finger Tips
Alan Whybrow, a young radio amateur (a ' ham '), introduces his hobby and, over a transmitter, calls up some of his friends overseas
Club with the Party Spirit
Jennifer Gilbert invites you to eavesdrop on the music and dancing at the Shoreham (Sussex) Country Dance Group
(BBC recordiing)
Top of the Ladder: Table Tennis
Terry Green meets Johnny Leach (twice World Champion, and member of the Swaythling Cup team) acroas the table tenmis table in his London youth club. Afterwards they compare notes on the game
(Continued in next column)
Straight from the Shoulder
Comments and views of the younger generation expressed in the letters you write to Parade, with a dramatised problem scene on which we ask your personal opinion
Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.
A story of country folk.
From The Miners' Welfare Hall, Chialet Colliery, Hersden, Kent
At the piano, Harry Hudson
Presented by Stephen Williams
A tribute to composers whose melodies have enriched the world of operetta, musical comedy, and revue
Written by Gale Pedrick
Introduced by ' The Man with the Opera Cloak'
Illustrated by scenes and music
(Continued in next column)
Chapter 6
The music of Herman DarewsM
Lionel Monckton George Gershwin with Gwen Catley
Arthur Richards
Joan Young Billie Baker
Dudley Rolph
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concent Orchestra (Leader, John Sharped
Conducted by Guy Daines
Musical adviser, Harold Neden
Produced by Douglas Moodie
Tunes you have asked us to play. Including some records chosen by Service men and women overseas
A parlour game in which a panel of experts tries to discover the names of visitors to the studio who bear the same names as famous people
The Panel: Frances Day, Phyllis Cradock, Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Chairman, Raymond Glendenning
with the BBC Show Band
Part I-Dance music
Directed by Cyril Stapleton with The Stargazers, Julie Dawn Bill McGuffie , Harold Smart
This week's guests:
The Ray Ellington Quartet
Stephane Grappelly and his Trio
Producer. Donald MacLean
' The Struggles of Albert Woods ' by William Cooper
Reader, Mark Dignam
12—' Professor A. Woods
Part 2
