AUSTRALIA v. ENGLAND
Second day
Commentators: Alan McGilvray Bernard Kerr. Charles Fortune
A. G. Moyes. and Arthur Gilligan
From the Cricket Ground. Melbourne
More records you have asked to hear for the first day of the year
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
Sidney Davey and his Players
The Harlequins
Directed by Sidney Sax
and his Band with Marjorie Daw , Mel Gaynor , Johnny Worth , and the David Ede Quintet
Tim Wright and his Band
Ian C. Cameron (piper)
Every week-day from the Half Moon Battery in Edinburgh Castle the firing of a gun marks the hour of one o'clock. John Lindsay on the ramparts of the Castle tells the story of this custom and talks to some of the people responsible for its operation both at the Castle and at Calton Hill
Produced by Patrick Hogg
What's on Today?
A magazine programme including:
Football League: by Charles Buchan Scottish League: by Harry Hoggan Third Test Match: Crawford White. cricket correspondent of the News Chronicle, gives his recorded impressions of the day's play at Melbourne
Introduced by Eamonn Andrews
Produced by Angus Mackay
with Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra on gramophone records
A musical programme for children under five
BBC Welsh Orchestra
(Leader, Philip Whiteway)
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
at the BBC theatre organ
Commentary on the second half of one of today's League games
Conducted by Harry Mortimer on gramophone records
sings with the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
presents
Retrospect 1954
David Jacobs looks back over the past year
Illustrated with gramophone records
Produced by Jack Dabbs
See below
on gramophone records
Noting from listeners' letters many pitfalls that could have been avoided, Dudley Perkins suggests some resolutions for the New Year i
Charles Buchan on today's football
(Mr. Rhythm) with Vic Lewis and his Orchestra
At the piano, AI Lerner
The second of two spontaneous half-hours of popular songs presented and sung to an audience of British fans by the famous recording star in the traditional American manner.
Announcer, Rikki Fulton
Presented by Peter Eton
[With] Johnny Morris
Last summer Johnny Morris journeyed across England from Manchester to Torquay in search of sea and sunshine. He travelled the hard way, with a rucksack on his back, and told the story of his experiences in a series of nightly broadcasts, recorded by the wayside.
This programme is a new version of the original broadcasts, with the addition of some musical decorations by Dudley Savage.
A programme of problems and brain teasers
Beat the Expert
John Gordge
Ask Me Another
A general knowledge quiz between contestants representing all parts of the British Isles
The Midlands-3
Freda Jackson
(Northamptonshire)
Peter Underwood
(Staffordshire)
Sally Shrimpton
(Shropshire)
Taking part in the sketch:
John Bentley
Daphne Maddox , Robert Rietty
Chairman: Franklin Engelmann
Programme devised and written by John P. Wynn
Produced by Joan Clark
Where dance music is played by Billy Ternent and his Orchestra with Geraldine Farrar , Ternenteers and the Hermanos Deniz
Cuban Rhythm Band
Host, Edmundo Ros
Producer Donald MacLean
