Peter Bathurst introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the BBC theatre organ

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

Bililiy Mayerl and Ms Players with Mary Dendse (soprano)

' A Head for Heights ' by Kenneth Bird
Read by John Phillips

Conductor, David Aspinall

BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins
From the Town Hall,
Manchester
(Continued in next column)
By arrangement with Manchester Corporait. ion

A programme for children under five
Today's story: Toffee and the Grey Rabbit ' by Jame Alan , told by Dorothy Smith

including
Laid Up with Flu, by Monica Sutherland
Do You Really Know What You're Buying? : Mary Hill reports on the effects of the Merchandise Marks Act
Family Life: some Women's Institute and Townswomen's Guild members discuss points recorded at this week's course at Denman College
Town Backyard and Cottage Garden: Margaret Spencer-Smith and Evelyn Gibbs talk about their gardendng plane for the month
Behind the Headlines: a weekly feature to fill in the background to some recent news events
Serial: Our Virgin Island ' by Robb White
Abridged by Becky Cocking
Read by Guy Kingsley Poynter
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson

and his Orchestra with Jill Day , Georgia Lee and Roy Edwards

The Promenade Players
Conductor, Sidney Bowman

Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, recaHs the daily happenings In the Life of her family
Script by Hazel Adair

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

Leyton Orient or Port Vale
See below

Raymond Glendenning on tomorrow's fixtures

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

Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed by: A. G. Street
Mary Stocks
J. F. Wolfenden
Sir Edward Boyle , Bt., M.P.
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Michael Bowen From the Grammar School,
Bristol

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
Raymond Newell and the BBC Men's Chorus
Conducted by Cyril Gell with Ernest Lush at the piano
Band of The Life Guards
Conducted by Lieut.-Col. A. Lemoine , O.B.E.
Director of Music
Introduced by Philip Slessor
Produced by Campbell Ricketts

where dance music is played by Joe Loss and his Orchestra with Rose Brennan
Howard Jones and Toni Ventro and Steve Race and Malcolm Lockyer and the host is
Edmundo Ros
Producer, Donald MacLean

' Cork in Bottle ' by Macdonald Hastings
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Reader, Richard George
10—' The Haunted Ballroom'

Part 2 includes
The Danny Levan Quintet