Paul Adam introduces your request records and at 9.30 app. Marie Bracie gives today's Shopping Flash
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
Bill Savill and his Orchestra
From the Midlands
'Soupey'
Written and read by Richard Goyne
(Leader, Philip Whiteway)
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
A programme of strict tempo dance music played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Introduced by Victor Silvester
Surrey Y. The Australians
First day
Commentaries by Rex Alston and Michael Charlton
From the Oval
See pages 7 and 9
Music of Cole Porter
(Recordings)
Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m. at 1.40
Today's story : The Dutch Doll ' by Ruth Ainsworth , told by Daphne Oxenford.
including:
Guest of the Week:
Richard Gordon
Cookery Club: a meeting-place for the exchange of ideas. (BBC recording)
Reading Your Letters: the weekly programme contributed by listeners
Recollected in Tranquillity: Joyce Grenfell looks back to the small dramas of childhood that loomed so large
Serial:
' They Do It With Mirrors' by Agatha Christie
(to be read in fourteen instalments)
Abridged by Eve Howland
Read by Mary Wimbush
8 - 'Miss Marple is Asked to Help'
Programme introduced by Jean Metcalfe
Surrey v. The Australians
Further commentary
Michael Austin at the piano
The Kursaal Orchestra Directed by Louis Voss
BBC Scottish Orchestra (Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conductor, Ian Whyte
A programme of dance music with Les Howard, Norman George and the Dance Section of the BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Presented by Geoffrey Wheeler
Surrey r. The Australians
Further commentaries by Rex Alston and Michael Charlton
From the Oval
and his Orchestra with Fred Hill
(Recordings)
again by Arthur Askey
Richard Murdoch , Peter Sellers
Leon Cortez , Pearl Carr
A new serial in eight parts by Francis Durbridge
6 -' News from Sir Graham'
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Production by Martyn C. Webster
Inviting you backstage at your radio music-hall to meet
Freddie Sales
The Radio Revellers
Ken Frith , Leslie Adams
George Betton
The Hindley Taylor Singers
The Augmented
BBC Northern Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Continuity by Frank Roscoe Produced by John Ammonds
Part 1
' Sweet and Swing'
Ken Mackintosh and his Orchestra with Patti Forbes , Kenny Bardell
Don Cameron , and the Mackpies
Guests, The Keynotes
' The Gentle Years' by T. Lovatt Williams
(to be read in fifteen instalments)
Abridged by Barbara Henderson
Read by Robert Harris
3 - ' Our Town '
Part 2
' Latin American'
Francisco Cavez and his Latin-American Rhythm with Stuart Gordon and The Keynotes
Introduced by Bruce Wyndham Production by Geoffrey Owen
followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 in. only