Kenneth Best introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
Selection: Ten O'Clock Tempo
Melodies of the Moment
Wynford Reynolds and his Orchestra
' Sweet Chestnut Tree' by Frank Headland
Read by Robert Rietty
(Leader, Jack Nugent )
Conductor, Michael Collins
(Leader, Ernest Element )
Conducted by Harold Gray
Valda Aveling (piano)
and his Music with Bobbie Britton and Peter Lowe
Today's story: 'Benjamin Bear and Muffet and the Rooks.' by Ursula Hourihane , told by Julia Lang
including
My Kind of Memory: a talk by Pamela Frankau.
Women Out at Work-6: some practical suggestions for middle-aged housewives who are thinking of going out to work
Looking at the News: a review of some of the happenings of the week
Do Birthdays Matter? Rita Udall considers this question on the eve of the programme's ninth anniversary
Serial: A Room with a View' by E. M. Forster
Abridged by Arthur Calder-Marshall
Read by Gladys Young
Fourth of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
The Rauter Folk-Song Trio:
Ann Dowdall (soprano)
Jeannette Sinclair (soprano)
Janet Baker (contralto) accompanied by Ferdinand Rauter (piano)
Wendy Heald (organ)
Introduced by John Webster
on gramophone records
Ken Beaumont and his Sextet
A message of comfort and cheer for all in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity'
Today Stuart Hibberd introduces a talk by the Rev. Jim Wilson
Listeners' letters are very welcome, as they give real help in planning these talks. Send them to Stuart Hibberd , c/o Silver Lining, Broadcasting House, London, W.I. Listeners will realise that speakers cannot reply personally, but will try to deal with their problems in the talks.
Conducted by Major F. J. Harris, M.B.E.
Director of Music
Conducted by Major F. J. Harris, M.B.E.
Director of Music
(Continued)
played by the BBC West of England
Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon ) Conductor, Frank Cantell
A programme presenting the hit songs of the moment, introduced by the singing personalities of today with the Orchestra directed by Ron Goodwin
Produced by John Hooper
with Jonah Barrington
One man's view of people and places that make the wheels go round in the world's biggest city
Read any good books lately?
Margaret Gilder and Barry Johnson of the Younger Generation discuss Nicholas Blake 's murder mystery ' A Question of Proof ' and some poems by C. Day Lewis and wonder how and why a poet turns thriller-writer
Guest of the week:
Nicholas Blake
(alias C. Day Lewis)
Host: Michael Flanders who also introduces
Competition Number 1
Listeners between fourteen and twenty are asked to write an excerpt from a murder story in verse, on a postcard, to Younger Generation Competition, BBC, London, W.I, by Wednesday, October 12.
Presented in London by Marjorie Anderson and in Cardiff by Havard Gregory
First of three programmes of record requests: next week, Scotland and England.
A radio correspondence column of letters from listeners about last Friday's programme 'Any Questions ? '
Introduced by Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Michael Bowen
First of a new series of programmes devised and written by Richard and Alma Jones
The Players: Cecile Chevreau
Dorothy Holmes-Gore , Edgar Norfolk
Mairhi Russell , Leonard Trolley
The Singers:
Joan Butler , David Galliver
Solo piano: Wilfrid Parry
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
London Theatre Orchestra
Conducted by Mark Lubbock Produced by Michael North
In this new series listeners can hear music which has brought, and may still bring, joy and happiness into the hearts of many, either by its sheer beauty or by the atmosphere surrounding it.
at the piano
'Fellow Passenger' by Geoffrey Household
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Abridged by Jocelyn Bradford
Read by Derek Hart
4 — 'A Much-Wanted Communist'
presented by Norrie Paramor and his Orchestra with Larry Hayward