Arthur Bush introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the BBC theatre organ Selection: The Songs We Sing

Frank Baron and his Sextet

' The Cure' by Josephine Elder
Reader, Noel Dryden

and his Balalaika Orchestra

and his Orchestra with Patti Forbes , Kenny Bardell Gordon Langhorn , Don Cameron and the Mackpies

(Leader, Donald Sturtlvant )
Conducted by Leo Wurmser
Maria Lidka (violin)

A programme for children under five
Today's story: 'A Bed in a Boot' by Mary Cockett , told by Daphne Oxenford

including:
Meeting People Through Flowers: Frances Lloyd describes her work as a florist
A Good Buy With Ann Hardy : 4 — ' Value for Money When Buying Bacon'
Letters to the Bereaved: Joanna Redwood talks about her own experience following a death in her family
Transatlantic Schooling: a conversation between an English and American mother whose children have been to school on both sides of the Atlantic
Serial: The Moving Finger' by Agatha Christie
Abridged by Honor Wyatt
Read by James McKechnie
The second of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
For Women Readers-page 27

and his Orchestre Moderne

Morris Motors Band
Conductor, G. V. Brooks

at the BBC theatre organ
Music from France Five Popular French Tunes

Conductor, Herbert Lodge with Billy Mayerl (piano)

with Bryan Johnson
(Lew Stone and his Band are appearing at Oddenino's Hotel, London)

presents
Winter Showcase
A concise guide to spare-time activities of all sorts, and the best ways to get in touch with others who share your interests
Contributed by a variety of expert under-twenties from different parts of the country, including members of youth organisations, and also some others who manage on their own; with some tips on the costs involved and the way to make further enquiries
Introduced by Diana Carter

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

followed by

Written by Anthony Backeridge
A new production of the play first broadcast in Children's Kaur
Produced by David Davis
At Linbury Court School the Natural History Club is in danger of being closed down-not on account of lack of enthusiasm, but, if anything, because of the boys' over-active interest in it.
Jennings and Darbishire, however, find an unexpected ally in Dr. Silverlight who comes to visit the Headmaster, and discover, too, that not every scientist wears a space suit, or plans a trip to the moon.

The Charles Cochran Story
(Part 1)
Written and narrated by Eric Maschwitz
The Singers: Olga Gwynne
Iris Villiers
Bruce Trent
(Continued in next column)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
Musical adviser, Gwen Williams
Programme produced by Michael North
Tonight Eric Maschwitz reminisces about those wonderful ' Nights of Gladness ' connected with probably the most distinguished and colourful show-man of the last forty years-Charles Blake Cochran.

The original tales of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle dramatised for radio by John Keir Cross
[Starring] John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson

See top of page and ' Both Sides of the Microphone'

with Ted Heath and his Music with Dennis Lotis
Kathy Lloyd and Bobbie Britton
On the Beat with Ken Rattenbury and his Sextet
Introduced by Ted Heath Produced by John Hooper

' Alone With Our Day ' by George Scurfield
(to be read in ten instalments)
Reader, Arthur Bush
2—' Expedition to the Hills'

with Ted Heath and his Music with Dennis Lotis
Kathy Lloyd and Bobbie Brittoa and Ken Rattenbury and his Sextet
Introduced by Alan Dell

Highlights of tomorrow's programme* and News Summary