George Melachrino introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
Band of the Scots Guards
Conducted by Lleut.-Col. S. Rhodes M.B.E
Director of Music
Presented by Monty Modlyn with gramophone records
at the organ of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool
Played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Tunes you have asked us to play, including some records chosen by Service men and women overseas
What's On Today?
Football League: by Charles Buchan
Horse Racing:
A preview of the Queen's Prize by Raymond Glendenning
Motor Racing:
The International Meeting at Goodwood by Raymond Baxter
Introduced by Eamonn Andrews
Produced by Angus Mackay
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
Today's story: 'Janet's Easter Egg ' bv Jane Shaw. told by Dorothy Smith.
Catherine Edwards introduces the programmes this week
Conversations with my Children -1: Macdonald Hastings takes his nine-year-old son for an Easter holiday treat
Your Italian Holiday: some advice from Naomi Jacob
Animals Asleep: Frank Lane describes some of the different sleeping habits of animals
Stephanois Sketch Book-3: ' Davisky's Drum ' by Antonia Ridge
Serial:
' The Distracted Preacher ' by Thomas Hardy
Abridged by M. Charlesworth
Read by John Witty
The first of five instalments
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
A programme of popular music of yesterday, sung and played in the style of today by Julia Shelley , Monty Norman and the Augmented
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Harry Rabinowitz
Producer, John Simmonds
Commentary on the second half of one of today's Football League matches
The Richmond Trophy
The Start
Raymond Baxter at the start and finish and Robin Richards at St. Mary's Corner describe the principal event in the British Automobile Racing Club's first international meeting of the season, at Goodwood
Eddie Carroll at the piano
The Richmond Trophy
Commentary on the finish
From Goodwood
including football results
Special reports on: First Division: Blackpool v. Burnlev; Manchester United v. Sunderland; Wolverhampton Wanderers v. Aston Villa
Second Division: Leeds United v. Luton Town; Lincoln City v. Black-burn Rovers
Talking Sport: A free discussion
Introduced by Eamonn Andrews
Produced by Angus Mackay
and his Music with the Montmartre Players
Directed by Henry Krein
Charles Buchan on today's football
On Laughter:
Ted Lune
Morecambe and Wise
Andrew Faulds as ' Jet Morgan'
On Song:
Les Howard , Carole Carr
The Raymond Woodhead Choir
(Continued in next column)
Spotlight on Music:
Johnny (The Sax) Roadhouse
The Augmented
BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Sketch material by Jack Bradley and Ray Davies
Introduced by Roger Moffat
Produced by Eric Miller
The story of a school seen through the eyes of the headmaster and his wife by Warren Chetham-Strode
Production by Audrey Cameron
Cyril Stapleton directs
The BBC Show Band
Alfred Marks does his best to misdirect it and Rikki Fulton makes the introductions which include The Stargazers
Ray Burns. Bill McGuffle
Harold Smart. Bert Weedon
The Show Band Singers
Production by Johnnie Stewart
Tonight from the BBC Concert Platform:
Muriel Smith with the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
1-The Busker
The first of a series in which the. speakers talk completely off the cuff.' The busker is Desmond MacDonald , who for several years has been entertaining the theatre and cinema queues of London with solo performances of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Music for listening and dancing played by Alex Welsh and his Dixielanders with Neva Raphaello
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton
Produced by Donald MacLean and Jimmy Grant
' Smuggler's Circuit' by Denys Roberts
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Read by Ivan Samson
Abridged by Jocelyn Bradford
6-' A Modern Portia'
including the Pied Pipers
