Roger Snowdon introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the organ of the Odeon, Marble Arch, London

Ralph Elman and his Bohemian Players

' After the News ' by James Pirie
Reader, Oliver Burt

(Leader, Jack Nugent )
Conducted by Michael Collins

and his Orchestra with Bob Dale

(Leader, Donald Sturtivant )
Conductor, Gilbert Vinter

A programme for children under five
Today's story: ' Gregory Goat Wants to Swim ' by Molly Sole , told by Dorothy Smith.

Including
Janet Teissier du Cros speaking from Paris
I Buy a Winter Dress, by Pearl Binder
Reading Your Letters: the latest selection from the Woman's Hour mailbag
Mabel Constanduros: another episode in the life of the Buggins family
Serial:
'Adam Bede,' by George Eliot
Abridged by Terry Gompertz
Read by Gladys Young
The fourth of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Ronald Woodcock (violin)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Lois Phillips (piano) in a programme of half an hour's music
Introduced by John Webster

Kenny Powell at the piano

Ken Beaumont and his Sextet

A message of comfort and cheer for all in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity'
Today's speaker is Father Aloysius Roche. He is introduced by Stuart Hibberd
Listeners' letters are very welcome, as they give real help in planning these talks. Send them to Stuart Hibberd , c/o Silver Lining, Broadcasting House, London, W.I. Listeners will realise that speakers cannot reply personally but will try to deal with their problems in the talks.

Conducted by Lieut.-Col. A. Rhodes , M.B.E.
Director of Music
Bruce Dargavel (bass-baritone)

TOYLAND
BBC West of England
Light Orchestra
Conductor, Frank Cantell

Young Civil Servants in the West Country press home questions about politics, democracy, and the party system, to a political team:
Anthony Wedgwood Benn M.P. (Labour) for
South East Bristol
Lt.-Col. Frank Byers (Liberal)
Viscount Hinchingbrooke
M P (Conservative) for South Dorset
Afterwards the visitors turn the tables on a younger generation team
In the chair, John Foot

with Benny Hill and Beryl Reid , Graham Stark
Shirley Eaton , Peter Madden
The Coronets
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
Script by Eddie Maguire
Ronald Wolfe , and Rex Dawe
Produced by Roy Speer

See columns 3 and 4

Gilbert Harding brings his guests to the studio, records them in their homes, or talks to them across seas and continents by telephone and short-wave telecommunications
Because the world around us changes from day to day the people to be interviewed in these programmes will not be chosen until shortly before the broadcast, and their names will not be announced in advance.
The Light Programme welcomes your opinion about who should be a Gilbert Harding guest. If you want to make a suggestion write to: Gilbert Harding (Interviews), Broadcasting House, London, W.i. Postcards only, please. The Harding Interviews are broadcast twice a week--on Mondays at
10.20 and Thursdays at 8.46 p.m.

Special Duty-4
Written and narrated by Stephen Grenfell
The story of a dramatic search and rescue operation conducted near the Isles of Scilly by 19 Group, Coastal Command, R.A.F.
Produced by R. D. Smith

for Good Neighbours
Tunes you have asked us to play in gratitude for some act of friendliness

for a programme of olde-tyme dancing with the Sydney Thompson
Olde-Tyme Orchestra
Master of Ceremonies,
Sydney Thompson
Introduced by John Webster
Produced by Leonard Trebilco

'The Door of Opportunity' by Somerset Maugham
(to be read in five instalments)
Reader, Hugh Burden
4 — ' So Few Against So Many'

Norrie Paramor and his Orchestra with Ray Burns