Donald Bisset introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the BBC theatre organ

Bill Savill and his Orchestra

(Yesterday's recorded broadcast)

The Southern Serenade Orchestra
Directed by Lou Whiteson
(Continued in next column)

' No Place for a Psychiatrist by Roy MacDonald
Read by Tom Maclver

Conducted by George Hespe

BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader. Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
From the Town Hall, Manchester
By arrangement with Manchester Corporation

Nursery rhymes stories, and music
A programme for children under five
Today's story: ' The Dolly that was Lost ' by Marjorie Mitchell , told by Daphne Oxenford.

From Wales
We're all neighbours: Marjorie Craven-Walker talks about an idea which she and her husband had, while they were serving in the R.A.F., for fostering international good-will
Concert: Elaine Morgan describes an unusual entertainment at a Welsh school
There's More to a Potato ... :
Tatham Whitehead asks us to consider some facts about the common potato
Rock-a-bye: Welsh nursery songs and lullabies sung by Sassie Rees
A Bath was an Occasion :
Grace Lang recalls the primitive plumbing of her old home in Belgium
Sunday with Nain : portrait of a rather formidable Welsh grand-mother by Vera Wynn Griffiths
(Continued in next column)
Serial:
' Persuasion,' by Jane Austen
Abridged by Nan Macdonald
Read by Richard HurndaU
Programme introduced by Nan Davies
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and his Music Makers with Marion Davis and Dennis Hale

The Regent Orchestra
Conducted by John Thorpe

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

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

Raymond Glendenning on tomorrow's fixtures

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

Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by: Ralph Wightman
Lewis Hastings
Woodrow Wyatt, M.P.
S. J. McAdden, M.P.
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Michael Bowen from the Garrison Theatre, Bulford

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 Frederick Stone at the piano
Band of H.M. Royal Marines (Plymouth)
Conducted by Captain W. Lang, M.B.E.
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
Reader, John Slater
Last instalment:
' Home Again '

Part 2 includes
The Francisco Cavez Quartet