Introduced by John Ellison

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the BBC theatre organ

Frank Baron and his Sextet

Light Orchestra
Conductor, David Curry

' The Doomington Wanderer ' by Louis Golding
Read by Anthony Jacobs

and Ms Band with Denny Dennis and Betty Miller

(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conductor, John Hopkins

A programme for children under five
Today's story: 'The Whistling Wind,' by Hilda Rostron , told by Dorothy Smith

including:
Guest of the Week:
Jack Hawkins
Poets, Pubs, and Painters: Marjorie Juta reflects on a recent visit to her childhood home in the Welsh village which lies ' Under Milk Wood '
Something Different: Commander Ibbett forsakes the sea for his yarn today
Journeying with Johnny: Rosemary Popplestone describes how she travelled to Afghanistan with her eleven-weeks-old baby
Serial:
' The Gipsy's Baby ' by Richmal Crompton
Abridged by Barbara Henderson
Read by Mary Hignett
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

The Lincolnshire Handicap
Commentary on the race by Raymond Glendenning , assisted by Claude Harrison as race-reader, from the Grandstand, and by Peter O'Sullevan from the mobile transmitter on the course
From Carholme, Lincoln

BBC West of England
Light Orchestra
Conductor, Frank Cantell

Owen Walters and his Orchestra

(Leader, Philip Whiteway )
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Winifred Roberts (violin)

Southern Serenade Orchestra
Directed by Lou Whiteson

at the BBC theatre organ

Let's Make an Opera and a Play
Students of Cambridgeshire Technical College present a scene from the opera, ' The Leaves of Sherwood,' specially written and composed for them by Douglas Muhr and Norman Hearn , which they are preparing for performance later in the year
Production for broadcasting by Walter Todds
Members of the Bletchley Baptist Youth Club appear in ' The Valiant,' by Holworthy Hall and Robert Middlemass , a one-act play In which they were the runners-up at the Buckinghamshire Youth Drama Festival last month
Production for broadcasting by George Dixon
Programme Introduced by Norma Ellis

A programme of gramophone records to greet him on the eve of his eighty-seventh birthday

(. Postponed from Dec.16)

Australia
The sights and sounds of Adelaide, capital of South Australia, which Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh are at present visiting and news of the Commonwealth Tour from Wynford Vaughan Thomas
Audrey Russell and Godfrey Talbot

Music for a late evening introduced by Marjorie Anderson
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz

' Fear to Tread ' by Miohael Gilbert
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Reader, Colin Gordon
3—' Jock's Pull-In '

by the Orchestra Gorni Kramer