Robert MacDermot introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the organ of the Granada, Tooting

The Richard Crean Orchestra

' The Smasher' by Idris Parry
Read by the author

Strict tempo dance music played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

and the Rendezvous Players

at the BBC theatre organ

(Leader, Donald Sturtivant )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter
Bronwen Jones (piano)

Nursery rhymes, stories and music
A programme for children under five
Today's story: ' The Snowman ' by Enid Jones , told by Julia Lang
Catherine Edwards introduces the programmes this week

Including:
Looking for Locusts: Barbara Gunn describes some experiences in remote locust-breeding areas in Tanganyika
An Enquiry into the Effects of National Service: Kay Swanzy talks about the working party of which she is a member
In the Lion's Den: Lionel Batten took a job in a sugar-beet factory and found himself working in a section full of women
Marian Cutler speaking
Serial:
' Persuasion,' by Jane Austen
Abridged by Nan Macdonald
Read by Richard Hurndall
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson

(Leader, David Paget )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz

Jack White and his Band

Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family

Mrs. Dale saw an announcement about the Sale of Goods at Parkwood Lodge and decided to go. Gwen and Sally looked over a flat in a converted house on the outskirts of Parkwood Hill. Gwen liked it, but was a little dubious because the owner had five children and she was afraid they might be noisy. Isabel Fielding reproached Edward for working late at the office so much and made it clear that she blamed his pretty new secretary. They had a quarrel. The next morning Tiggy was missing and his bed had not been slept in. It turned out that Tiggy had travelled to Chester to see the Holburns, with whom he spent Christmas, but the Chester police said that the Holburns were away and their house closed up. Isabel went to Cheater to search for Tiggy and, after her departure, Edward had news that the boy had been seen going to Liverpool. Leonora de Grey told Sally that she planned to settle in Parkwood Hill and was thinking of buying Parkwood Lodge.

by Emlyn Williams
Adapted by Peggy Wells
Produced by Ayton Whitaker

(continued)

BBC West of England
Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon )
Conductor, Frank Cantell

Spotlighting the world of popular music with the BBC Show Band
Directed by Cyril Stapleton
Bob Monkhouse
Rikki Fulton
The Melody Family featuring The Stargazers with Pip,' ‛Pop,’ and ‛Smugsie ’
Fireside Melody
Bill McGuffie and his piano
Just for You
Tunes you have specially asked for
I Hear a Violin: Louis Stevens
The Barnstormers invite you to the Old Log Cabin
Smart Work: Harold Smart at the electric organ
Pop Parade
The best of the best-sellers past and present with Julie Dawn and the Show Band Singers
Script by Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin
Production by Johnnie Stewart

Jimmy Ford
(New Prancepeth, Co... Durham) v. Johnny Miller
(North Shields)
A commentary on the eight-round lightweight contest by Eamonn Andrews , with inter-round summaries by Harry Carpenter
From St. James's Hall, Newcastle

Frankie Howerd introduces personalities in ' Show Business'
This week:
Val Parnell
Tony Brent
Eve Boswell
Bernard Braden
Billy Ternent and his Orchestra
Script by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson with Eric Sykes
Produced by Alastair Scott-Johnston

First Day
Brian Johnston In the Glasgow studios reports the day's events there and introduces a recording of Raymond Baxter's start from Munich. John Cooper gives a last-minute report from Athens, and we hear from Tommy Wisdom, northbound from Monte Carlo.

A favourite tune and a question or two
Go back through the years to a house you knew
Devised and presented on recorda by Michael Brooke

West Indies r. England
First Test Match
Summary of the third day's play by E. W. Swanton, cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph
From Sabina Park, Kingston. Jamaica
Should reception conditions be unfavourable, a studio report will replace the broadcast from Jamaica.

' A Sunset Touch ' by Howard Spring
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Reader, Peter Augustine
11—' The " Artist Feller " '

Frank Baron and the International Novelty Quintet with Charlie Katz and his Pied Pipers