Edmundo Ros introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
and his Orchestra wdth Paul Rich
' Rusty ' Hunnen, Jimmy Mayers and the Sunspots
with the London Light Concert Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum)
Conducted by Guy Daines
and the Peter Knight Singers
At the piano, Albert Marland
Introduced by Franklin Engelmann
Produced by Campbell Ricketts
before an audience of children at the Playhouse Theatre, London
at the Festival Pleasure Gardens, Battersea Park
The Metropolitan Police Central Band
Conducted by Roger Barsotti, Director of Music
Introduced by John Ellison
Middlesex r. Sussex
Nottinghamshire v. Surrey
Second day
Commentary by E. W. Swanton from Lord's and by John Arlott from Trent Bridge
Anona Winn, Joy Adamson, Jack Train and Richard Dimbleby ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers
A programme of strict tempo dance music played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Middlesex v. Sussex
Nottinghamshire r. Surrey
Further commentary
on gramophone records
Today's story: 'Twopence and the Big Umbrella ' by Margaret Gore , told by Dorothy Smith
Catherine Edwards introduces the programmes this week
Music for a spring afternoon with the BBC Revue Orchestra (Leader, David Paget )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Introduced by Michael Brooke
ATHLETICS
The British Games
Organised by the News of the World
Incorporating the Inter-County Championships
Commentary by Harold Abrahams on the finish of the Six Miles (Inter-County Championship)
From the White City Stadium. London
Middlesex v. Sussex
Nottinghamshire r. Surrey
Further commentary
The ' Daily Express'
Tour of Britain
Bill Mills reports from Snake Hill, Derbyshire, as the riders pass on their way to Manchester
See Both Sides of the Microphone'
The British Games
Commentary by Harold Abrahams on the Two Miles
International
Middlesex v. Sussex
Nottinghamshire r. Surrey
Further commentary
Inter-County Championships
Commentary by Harold Abrahams and Rex Alston on the finals of the One Mile and the 440 yards
and the North Pier Orchestra
From the North Pier, Blackpool
The Daily Express'
Tour of Britain
Bill Mills summarises today's stage from Lincoln to Man-cheater, from the Fallowfield track finishing point
Middlesex r. Sussex
Nottinghamshire r. Surrey
Second day
Further commentary
Inter-County Championships
Commentary by Harold Abrahams on the finish of the 3,000-metres Steeplechase
Middlesex r. Sussex
Nottinghamshire v. Surrey
Second day
Further commentary
An adaptation of the sound-track of the new Warner Brothers picture
The programme narrated by Arthur Hill
Adaptation by Gordon Gow
Produced by Thurstan Holland
Tunes you have asked us to play, including some records chosen by Service men and women overseas
Middlesex v. Sussex
Nottinghamshire v. Surrey
Second day
Further commentary by E. W. Swanton from Lord's and by John Arlott from Trent Bridge
Written by Edward J. Mason and Geoffrey Webb.
A story of country folk.
Nottinghamshire v. Surrey
Second day : close of play score
including cricket close of play scores
The BBC Show Band
Directed by Cyril Stapleton
A Show Band Star with Rikki Fulton
(Continued in next column)
Guest singer, Pearl Carr
The Stargazers
Bill McGuffie
Harold Smart
The Show Band Singers
Produced by Johnnie Stewart
pays a visit backstage to three famous West End theatres and invites stars to choose records which are played for them from the BBC Gramophone Library
The Theatre Royal, Baymarket
Dame Sybil Thorndike Sir Ralph Richardson
Sir John Gielgud
The Stage-Door Johnny,
John Ellison
The London Palladium
Norman Wisdom
Jerry Desmonde
The Stage-Door Johnny,
Brian Johnston
The London Hippodrome
Evelyn Laye
Anton Walbrook
Jeff Warren
The Stage-Door Johnny,
Franklin Engelmann
A series of two-round contests
London v. North Region
Round 1
London
Denis Brogan, Cedric Cliffe
Quiz-Master, Lionel Hale
North Region
Denis Chapman , W. Lyon Blease
Quiz-Master, Gilbert Harding
with Ken Platt and Bob Pearson , Miriam Karlin Bernard Spear , Eddie Arnold
The Taverners
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Script by George Wadmore
George Inns. and Ronnie Wolfe
Produced by George Inns
Melodies, songs, and dances from both sides of the Atlantic
David McCallum and the Strolling Players with Charles Kennedy (tenor)
Excerpts recorded in Paris during the last few days by Robin Scutt
Produced by Donald MacLean and Jimmy Grant
' Cousin Jan'
Written for radio
In fifteen instalments and told by the author
Antonia Ridge
6— ' Is This a Tragic Family
After All?'
The story was first broadcast in Woman's Hour
and his Rio Tango Band