BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, George Deason )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
A monthly programme reflecting life in the country
David Lloyd James and Eric Simms introduce personalities to talk about happenings in the countryside. The programme also includes recordings of December sounds
Edited by Eric Simms
Produced by Bernard Lyons
The Sunday Supplement to Woman's Hour
Joan Yorke introducing:
Elizabeth Pepperell explaining what led her to her present job of assistant director of an industrial welfare society
Reading your letters on personal problems
Joan and Peter Foldes answering some questions about their life in partnership
A doctor's wife talking about marriage and medicine
The second episode from 'The Overloaded Ark.' by Gerald M. Durrell. Abridged by E. N. Williams, read by Julian Randall.
A journey through Britain with a recording machine
7 - All Alive and Kicking
People met by the way, including staff and patients at a miners' rehabilitation centre in Mansfield; John Nimlin , crane driver, and his wife Jennie - mountaineers; William Harvey, early-morning-all-the-year-round bather; two girls come from Australia to learn the bagpipes; the Mousehole Male Voice Choir; Donald Campbell, mouth-musician; and the National Youth Orchestra of Wales
Produced by Jack Singleton
You are invited to listen to folk songs and music still sung and played in the British Isles
In this first programme of the New Year, Peter Kennedy plays wassail songs from Cornwall, Somerset, Gloucestershire, and the Gower Peninsula
Spike Hughes recalls some of the songs and tunes he has arranged so far for the series
Singers:
Isla Cameron, Frances Kitching, Ewan McColl
The Players:
Eugene Pini (violin), Henry Krein (accordion), Freddie Phillips (guitar), George Crozier (flute), Carloz Valdez (cello), Jimmy Verity (viola)
Programme introduced by Spike Hughes
Edited by Marie Slocombe
Produced by Harold Rogers
invites you to join him in his
' spot of homely fun '
'HAVE A GO!' in the Village Hall of Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire
' Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife ' (Thomas Gray)
At the piano, Harry Hudson
Presented by Stephen Williams
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope
(1 Peter 1, v. 3)
' The Hope of the World'
The Rev. Richard Tatlock introduces a series of services on the Life and Person of Jesus of Nazareth
Service from the Concert Hall
Broadcasting House, London
Organist,
Dr. George Thalben-Ball
From London and Germany
In London, Jean Metcalfe
In Hamburg, Dennis Scuse
with Dick Katz
The Ray Ellington Quartet
The Edmundo Ros
Latin-American Orchestra
Script by Jimmy Grafton
Producer, Jimmy Grant
A weekly programme of records featuring the pick of British dance bands
A winter programme looking back to last summer and forward to next
Memories of sunlit days
Plans for leisure to come
Musical excursions
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet and the Augmented Variety Orchestra
This week you are invited to come 'On a visit to a Sailing Club' with Commander Thompson
'Cycling in France' with Eric Phillips
'Caravanning' with Ruth Drew
and to listen to a few stories of a travel agent's courier - Roy Bradford, and your own holiday questions answered by travel experts
Introduced by Franklin Engelmann
Arranged and edited by Bernard Lyons
Produced by Arthur Phillips
by Flotsam, at the piano with the help of records
Directed by Michael Spivakovsky
A radio play by Anthony Armstrong from his own short story
Produced by Frederick Bradnum
with Barbara Lyon , Richard Lyon
Horace Percival , Doris Rogers
Molly Weir , Hugh Morton
Gwen Lewis
with Wallas Eaton
Alma Cogan , June Whitfield
A summary of events of the past week
Tom Jenkins and the Palm Court Orchestra with William Herbert
Community hymn-singing from the BBC studios in Scotland
The hymns are introduced by the Rev. David R. Easton
The praise is led by the Scottish Junior Singers
Conductor, Agnes Duncan
and the Edinburgh Churches Choir
Conductor, John Brown
God is love (Tune, Sussex)
Will your anchor hold? (Tune: Kirkpatrick)
Guide me, O thou great Jehovah
(Tune: Cwm Rhondda)
O worship the King (Tune, Hanover)
Through the night of doubt and sorrow (Tune, Marching)
Child in the manger (Tune, Bunessan)
Thy hand, O God, has guided (Tune, Thornbury)
Metrical Psalm 23. The Lord's my Shepherd (Tune, Crimond)
Terry-Thomas in Top of the Town
with Joan Sims and Leslie Mitchell
Tonight's Musical Highlights: Anne Shelton, Terry James, The George Mitchell Town Criers, Stanley Black, his piano and his Concert Orchestra
On Top of his Town this week: Dennis Price and his home town, Twyford, Berkshire
at the piano
Christian hymns, their music, and their meaning
O God of Bethel by whose hand (Tune, Salzburg)
Jesu, lover of my soul (Tune, Hollingside)
Great God. we sing that mighty hand (Tune, Wareham)
God of eternity.,Lord of the ages (Tune. Crudwell)
A programme of records
Introduced by John Webster
A programme of melody played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ
