Douglas Blackwell introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the BBC theatre organ

Hal Graham and his Orchestra

and his Tipica Orchestra
(Continued in next column)

Mike McKenzie at the piano

Conductor. William A. Scholes

(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte

Directed by Henry Krein

Today's story: ' The Little Cat in the Haystack ' by Mollie Craven , told by Daphne Oxenford

including
On Being a Grass Widow: talk by Ba Mason
' The heave and the halt and the hurl ...': Quotation Club offers listeners some readings about the sea
Readers: Marjorie Anderson
Denis McCarthy , Frank Duncan
'Ill met by moonlight': an outspoken talk about cats by Grace Chaney.
Certain Cure: Mrs. Barbara Roach questions some of the illusions about the delights of rearing a family
(Continued in next column)
Serial: ' The Other Day' by Dorothy Whipple
Abridged by P. J. R. Wright
Read by Mary O'Farrell
The fourth of nine instalments
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson

and his Orchestra with Annette Scott

The Bobby Howell Orchestra

at the BBC theatre organ

Conducted by Lt.-Col. F. Vivian Dunn. C.v.o.
Principal Director of Music,
Royal Marines

An orchestra popular over there playing songs that are popular over here: The Percy Faith Orchestra

BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Norman George )
Conductor, Alyn Ainsworth with Les Howard
Introduced by Roger Moffat

and Raymond Glendenning on tomorrow's football

from the R.A.F. Station at Biggin Hill, Kent with The Stargazers
Tommy Reilly , Lizbeth Webb
Bob Monkhouse and Denis Goodwin
James Moody (piano) Bert Weedon (guitar) Max Abrams (drums)
Presented by Bill Gates

First of four programmes of songs chosen from his repertoire
Introduced by his friend and colleague
Freddy Grisewood with the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor, Charles Mackerras
The well-known Australian baritone recorded these programmes during a recent visit to this country in his seventy-fourth year.

of Malcolm Lockycr
A design for strings patterned by Malcolm Lockyer described by David Jacobs
Produced by John Browell

at the National Radio Show,
Earls Court
In which Al Read takes life as he finds it and shares the fun with The Gaunt Brothers
John McHugh
The Littlewood Songsters
The Coronets and the augmented
BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Production by Ronnie Taylor

Real stories from official records
Introduced by Captain Athelstan Popkess , Chief Constable of City Police in a large Midland city
3— 'The man who wrote himself off'
Ever since he had had to give up his iob on account of illness, Fred Wilkins had been a burden to himself and to his family. Then one night he disappeared from his home. His distracted mother telephoned the Police ..
Why these calls came to the Police and what the Police did is told by Captain Popkess. What happened next is told by one of the Ministry of Labour's Rehabilitation Officers. There are no actors in these programmes and only the names and minor details of the stories have been changed to avoid identification.

Cyril Stapleton directs the BBC Show Band
Songs from The Stargazers Harold Smart , Bert Weedon and Dennis Wilson
Guest singer, Janie Marden
Producer, John Browell

' The Tiger in the Smoke' by Margery Allingham
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Abridged by Jane Bowness
Read by Howard Marion -Crawford
10— 'A Near Miss '

Music for a later hour
Reg Owen and his Orchestra