John Watt introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
Ian Stewart and his Quintet
' Terribly Awkward'
A story by Rosemary Weir
Read by Constance Chapman
When you rent a holiday chalet, be sure you can recognise it.
The Harlequins
Directed by Sidney Sax
Conductor, Alex Mortimer
BBC Northern Orchestra (Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Vilem Tausky
From the Town Hall, Manchester by arrangement with Manchester Corporation
Today's story: 'Minikin, Manikin, and Mite, and the Firewood ' by Lilian Daykin. told by Julia Lang
from Wales
/ Saw a Ship a-sailing: Betty Cohen describes her hobby of watching the ships as they pass
Shopping Report: for her report Myfanwy Howell has visited shops in Cardiff, Swansea, and the Rhondda Valley
Glamour in Anglesey: Mary F. Morris recalls one of the heydays of her youth
My Spanish Guitar: songs by Esme Lewis , sung to the accompaniment of her own guitar
Birthday on the Bus: the jolliest birthday party she has ever attended, says Eluned Davies , was the one celebrated on the morning bus
The Guide: Eleanor Page introduces listeners to Master Bertil of Stockholm
Serial:
' Adam Bede ' by George Eliot
Abridged by Terry Gompertz
Read by Gladys Young
The tenth of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Nan Davies
and his Orchestra
(Lou Preager and his Orchestra are appearing at the Hammersmith Palais, London)
Jack Leon and his Orchestra
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Jonquil Antony
The music you have asked for introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ
Conducted by Major John L. Judd , M.B.E.
Director of Music
An early evening entertainment featuring
Les Howard
Norman George and the String Serenaders with the Northern Variety Orchestra
Directed by Alyn Ainsworth
Introduced by Roger Moffat and Vera McKechnie
Gerard Hoffnung gives the eighth of a series of twelve musical autobiographies in which well-known people talk about the way their taste in music has grown
Written by Edward J. Mason and Geoffrey Webb.
A story of country folk.
Raymond Glendenning on tomorrow's fixtures
Pull up a chair and turn up the radio, it's Ted Ray Time
The old maestro presents a new series with Harold Berens, Kenneth Connor,
Audrey Jeans, Don Peters, Diana Dors
The Beaux and the Belles
Script by George Wadmore, Ted Ray and Sid Colin
Produced by George Inns
(Kenneth Connor is appearing in "Keep in a Cool Place" at the Saville Theatre, London)
on gramophone records
Questions of the moment put by members of the audience are discussed spontaneously by A. G. Street
Frank Byers
Denzil Batchelor
Norah Phillips
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Michael Bowen
From the Village Hall,
Porlock, Somerset
(Home)
A musical entertainment for the end of the week
Frederick Harvey
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conducted by Sidney Torch
BBC Men's Chorus
Conducted by Cyril Gell with Clifton Helliwell at the piano
Band of the Grenadier Guards
Conducted by Major F. J. Harris , M.B.E.
Director of Music
Introduced by Philip Slessor
Produced by Campbell Ricketts
The M.C.C. Tour
E. W. Swanton, cricket correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, is accompanying the M.C.C. team in Australia. Tonight, in the third of a series of six letters, he describes the progress of the tour so far, both on and off the field
To be repeated tomorrow at 12.45
Cyril Stapleton directs The BBC Show Band
Pianist, Bill McGuffie
Songs from the Stargazers
For Sambas: Harold Smart and the Sambassadors
Guest singer:
Ray Burns
Produced by Donald MacLean
' The Letter' by Somerset Maugham
(to be read in five instatments)
Reader, Carleton Hobbs
5 — 'A Husband Learns the Truth'
Music for a later hour including
Eric Jupp and his Player*
Highlights of tomorrow's programme* and News Summary