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(Leader, Philip Whiteway )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Magda Longari (piano)

Overture: Berenice - Handel, arr. Stanford Robinson
Atzenbruck Dances - Schubert, arr.Max Schdnherr
Concertino in E for piano and strings - Pietro Montani
Suite of Six Swiss Folk Songs - Rolf Liebermann
Allegro de concierto - Granados
Fete polonaise - Chabrier

Contributors

Leader:
Philip Whiteway
Conducted By:
Stanford Robinson
Piano:
Magda Longari

including
Guest of the Week
Mrs. Walter Elliot
My Kind of Dog: Leslie Perrins talks about chihuahuas
How Much do We Know : About Influenza-2, by C. H. Andrewes , F.R.S., who is in charge of the World Influenza Centre of the World Health Organisation.
Mary Hardie continues her diary
Serial:
' The Murder of Roger Ackroyd ' by Agatha Christie
Abridged by Honor Wyatt
Read by James McKechnie
The third of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe

Contributors

Unknown:
Mrs. Walter Elliot
Talks:
Leslie Perrins
Unknown:
C. H. Andrewes
Unknown:
Mary Hardie
Unknown:
Roger Ackroyd
Unknown:
Agatha Christie
Read By:
James McKechnie
Introduced By:
Jean Metcalfe

Young people discussing current films, books, plays, and tunes

A New Way with an Old Opera
This week Norma Ellis, Ruth Kelsall, John Burley, and Bernard Rudden talk about: 'Carmen Jones': Directed and produced by Otto Preminger and starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Olga James, and Joe Adams, with new lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II to the music of Bizet's 'Carmen'

All Yours
Michael Flanders gives the results of last week's competition and sets another one

Contributors

Unknown:
Norma Ellis
Unknown:
Ruth Kelsall
Unknown:
John Burley
Unknown:
Bernard Rudden
Unknown:
Michael Flanders

Aided and abetted by Bob Andrews
Introduce
Frankie Vaughan with Bert Waller at the piano
Top Tunes at Your Request
Leslie Welch
The Memory Man
Forces Show Radio Nutwork
These you have liked
-but not this way!
The Tanner Sisters
Those ' swing-song ' girls Raymond Glendenning
Reports on sports
The Forces Tutor
The low-down on Civvie Street
Malcolm Lockyer 's Concert Orchestra with the Knights Errant
' The Girl of Your Dreams '
That dean of detectives
Klaxon Horne finds himself
' Without a Clue'
Fantastic adventures
To be continued in our next'
Introduced by Roy Williams
Script by Larry Stephens and Jimmy Grafton with additional material by Peter Griffiths and John Vyvyan Produced by Trafford Whitelock

Contributors

Unknown:
Bob Andrews
Unknown:
Frankie Vaughan
Unknown:
Bert Waller
Unknown:
Leslie Welch
Unknown:
Raymond Glendenning
Unknown:
Malcolm Lockyer
Unknown:
Klaxon Horne
Introduced By:
Roy Williams
Script By:
Larry Stephens
Script By:
Jimmy Grafton
Unknown:
Peter Griffiths
Unknown:
John Vyvyan
Produced By:
Trafford Whitelock

A musical entertainment for the close of day
Hermann Hagestedt and his Orchestra
The Choir of the Cologne College of Music with songs by Use Hubener , Willy Schneider Heino Gaze and Willy Mattes
(two pianos)
(The third of a series of six programmes recorded for the BBC Light Programme by courtesy of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk. Cologne, and previously broadcast on August 26. 1964)

Contributors

Unknown:
Hermann Hagestedt
Songs By:
Use Hubener
Songs By:
Willy Schneider
Songs By:
Heino Gaze
Songs By:
Willy Mattes

Light Programme

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More