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including:
How I came to take up knitting by James Norbury
Books to Buy: suggestions for your book token from six people who describe the book they most enjoyed in 1955 Guest of the Day: Dame Ninette de Valois, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the present Sadler's Wells Theatre.
Looking at the News: a review of some of the happenings of the week
Serial:
'The Woman in White' by Wilkie Collins
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by Derek Hart
5-'The Business of the Marriage Settlement'
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson

Contributors

Unknown:
James Norbury
Unknown:
Wilkie Collins
Abridged By:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Derek Hart
Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

A programme for family listening presented by members of the Younger Generation
Heirs to a Tradition
1-The Silversmith
Science as it moves rapidly ahead along fresh and untrodden paths attracts many under-twenties to its service in the new industries. Others. however, still find that in Britain's old traditional crafts there are jobs which satisfy and offer good opportunities for the future-jobs in the line of fine craftsmen which has extended back through the centuries.
In this the first of a new series
Carole Allen introduces the young silversmith. amateur and professional. with a word about his apprenticeship and some advice from one of the experts. Robert Stone

Contributors

Introduces:
Carole Allen
Unknown:
Robert Stone

Peter Brough and Archie Andrews in with Beryl Reid , Ken Platt
Graham Stark , Ronald Chesney
The Coronets
The Dennis Wilson Quartet and guest artist, Robert Moreton
Written by Ronald Wolfe
George Wadmore , and Pat Dunlop
Produced by Roy Speer

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Brough
Unknown:
Archie Andrews
Unknown:
Beryl Reid
Unknown:
Ken Platt
Unknown:
Graham Stark
Unknown:
Ronald Chesney
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Artist:
Robert Moreton
Written By:
Ronald Wolfe
Written By:
George Wadmore
Written By:
Pat Dunlop
Produced By:
Roy Speer

A spontaneous discussion by A. G. Street
Canon E. Moore Darling
Stephen McAdden , m.p.
Morgan Phillips
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Produced by Michael Bowen
From the Town Hall,
New Alresford, Hampshire
Repeated on Tuesday at 1.10 (Home)
Comments on this programme for use in ' Any Answers? ' , should be sent to the BBC,
Bristol, marked ' Any Questions?,' and should arrive by first post on Monday.

Contributors

Unknown:
A. G. Street
Unknown:
Canon E. Moore Darling
Unknown:
Stephen McAdden
Produced By:
Michael Bowen

A weekly programme of light music for everybody played by the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader. John Sharpe )
Conducted by Sidney Torch with John Cameron
This week:
The Band of H.M. Royal Marines
(Portsmouth) Conducted by Captain K. A. McLean
Director of Music and Stanley Riley
BBC Men's Chorus
Conducted by Cyril Gell
Introduced by Philip Slessor
Produced by Campbell Ricketts
Given before an invited audience at the Camden Theatre. London

Contributors

Leader:
John Sharpe
Conducted By:
Sidney Torch
Unknown:
John Cameron
Conducted By:
Captain K. A. McLean
Conducted By:
Cyril Gell
Introduced By:
Philip Slessor
Produced By:
Campbell Ricketts

Light Programme

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