Robert MacDermot introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players
Light Orchestra
(Leader, William Mclnulty )
Conductor, David Curry
(Continued in next column)
'Cabbage Looking'
Written and read by Ned Sherrin
‛ To make a trade of laughing at « fool is the highway to become one ’—and that's what happened to Ralph Hayter.
and Ms Band with Denny Dennis and Betty Miller
(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by Alexander Gibson
Nursery rhymes stories and music
A programme for children under five
Today's story: Ba.by Bear on the Ice ’ by Mary E. Allen , told by Dorothy Smith
including
Guest of the Week:
Cecil Woodham Smith
' Some Compensations of CaJamity ’ : Margaret McCook considers this quotation from Emerson as it applies to her own life
Reading Your Letters: the latest selection from the Woman's Hour mailbag
Have You Any Time to Spare Some more suggestions from Rose Buckner and others for earning a little extra money at home
Serial:
' Persuasion,' by Jane Austen
Abridged by Nan Macdonald
Read by Richard Hurndall
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
For the Woman Reader-page 27
Bunny Laikin and his Romantic Players with John Heddle Nash (baritone)
at the BBC theatre organ
Jack Coles and his Orchestre Moderne
(To be repeated tomorrow at 11.0 a.m.)
(Leader, Philip Whiteway )
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
Franz Osborn (piano)
(continued)
Conducted by Reginald Kilbey
Dennis Wilson at the piano
A programme on thingj to read and see presented mainly by under-twenties
Introduced by Norma Ellis
Christopher Cotton on ' Space Travel' by Kenneth W. Gatland and Anthony M. Kunesch , and ' The Golden Apples of the Sun ' by Ray Bradbury
Shirley Williamson on some of the London Christmas shows: 'Where the Rainbow Ends ' at the Stoll Theaitre; 'Peter Pan ' at the Scala Theatre; and 'The Sleeping Beauty ' at the Streatham Hill Theaitre
A short story by Jenifer Adams read and discussed
Guest, Frank Tllsley
Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.
A story of country folk.
followed by
A journey through Britain with a recording machine.
Leslie Baily visits a modern nylon stocking factory at Sutton in Ashfield and meets H. Hibbert, Jack Hepworth, Horace Parnell, and Iris Derbyshire. He calls up from the past the Rev. William Lee, inventor of the stocking frame, and his wife; some Luddite rioters; and Lord Byron, speaking in the House of Lords.
Parts played by: Peter Hoar, Betty Hardy, Peter DuCrow, Stanley Mackenzie,
Charles Mason
With a postscript by John Traynor, a National Trust agent in Sherwood Forest
(BBC recording)
Excerpts from Puccini's opera sung by Licia Albanese (soprano) and Jan Peerce (tenor) with the NBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Toscanini on gramophone records
The sights and sounds of the South Island of New Zealand which H.M. the Queen and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh are at present visiting and news of the Commonwealth Tour from Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Audrey Russell , and Godfrey Talbot
The Third Night
As all competitors approach the critical mountainous sections of the Auvergne and Maritime Alps, Raymond Baxter reports from Bourges; and Brian Johnston , in London, presents the Rally news of the day. (Map on page 7)
West Indies v. England
First Test Match
Summary of the fifth 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
13—' The Keep '
Melodies from Vienna played by the Grand Orchestra of RAVAG
Vienna
Conducted by Max Schönherr
Rudolph Christ (tenor)