Michael Miles introduces your request records

A Story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the BBC theatre organ

The Jimmy Leach Organolian Quartet

Directed by David Wolfsthal

' Life with Beppo ' by Kenneth Bird
Read by Marjorie Westbury

Conductor,
Mr. Edwin G. Spooner

given by BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins
Reginald Stead (violin)
From the Town Hall, Manchester
By arrangement with Manchester Corporation

for children under five
Today's story: 'Jacko and the Potato Scones ' by Jean Sutcliffe , told by Julia Lang.

including:
Good Manners: in her last talk Phyllis Digby Morton asks ' Are you a social success ? '
Money Troubles : another episode in the life of the Buggins Family, by Mabel Constanduros
The London Dress Shows: Alison Settle sums up the new trends
Behind the Headlines: a weekly feature to fill in the background to some recent news events
Serial:
' Persuasion,' by Jane Austen Abridged by Nan Macdonald
Read by Richard Hurndall
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson

and his Orchestra with Ray Burns , Bob Freeman and Annette Scott

Jack Leon and his Orchestra

The music you have asked for introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ

Northern Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Norman George )
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth with songs from Les Howard

Lionel Gamlin looks through the BBC Recorded Programmes Diary for 1953 and invites you to listen again to some of the broadcasts that took place during this week last year
Produced by Phyllis Robinson

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

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

followed by

Raymond Glendenning on tomorrow's fixtures

A well-known impressionist entertains
This week: Alan Clive with Harold Smart at the electric organ
Presented by George Inns

A musical entertainment for the end of the week
Victoria Campbell and John Hanson with the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conducted by Sidney Torch
Ian Wallace and the BBC Men's Chorus
Conducted by Cyril Gell with Ernest Lush at the piano
Band of the Welsh Guards
Conducted by Captain F. L. Statham
Director of Music
Introduced by Philip Slessor
Produced by Campbell Ricketts

where the host Is
Edmundo Ros and dance music is played by Joe Loss and his Orchestra with Rose Brennan
Howard Jones , and Toni Ventro and by Malcolm Lockyer and Steve Race
Part 1 includes
'Talking of Dancing' by Norton Colville
Producer, Donald MacLean

' The Little Ark ' by Jan de Hartog
(to be read in ten instalments)
Reader, John Slater
5—' Sixty-five Souls'

Part 2 includes
The Francisco Cavez Quartet