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Bob Danvers Walker introduces your request records
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
WHILE YOU WORK
Ian Stewart and his Quintet
From the North of England
' The Wrong Story '
Written and read by Gerard Bell
and his Band
(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Surrey v. Lancashire
Last day
Commentary by Rex Alston
From the Oval
at the piano with soloists and rhythm accompaniment on gramophone records
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Today's story: 'All Soapy and White' by Margaret Allen , told by Daphne Oxenford.
' Our Representative' by Donald Boyd
Before 1914 a young man might become a newspaper reporter because he had literary ambitions. It was for this reason that Donald Boyd became a journalist, but he wonders whether he would take so readily to the newspaper life of today.
The fifth of six talks
' The Younger Generation and the Church'
In January of this year four groups of young people in Bristol, London, New-castle, and Swansea, were invited to find out what impact the teaching and practice of the Christian Church was having on their fellow under-twenties, and whether anything could be done to make it more effective. In the course of six weeks they interviewed more than five hundred young people and each group prepared a report. Their work provided the basis for two programmes in the Younger Generation series, 'Parade,' from which today's feature has bees prepared.
' A Town Like Alice' by Nevil Shute
Read anew by Ronald SimpMi
10—' In Search of Joe'
Conducted by Leonard Lamb
Surrey r. Lancashire
Further commentary
Michael Collins and his Orchestra
Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ
Surrey v. Lancashire
Commentary on the closing overs of the match by Rex Alston
Directed by Sidney Sax
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Record Interlude
Frank Baron at the piano
Songs and melodies fashioned in our way with Laurie Payne
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by Frank Hooper
Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.
A story of country folk.
including cricket close of play scores and Raymond Glendenning on tomorrow's fixtures
with Joan Sims , Anthony Newley
Ronnie Barker , Hugh Paddick
Iris Vandeleur
Script by Terry Nation
John Junkin , and Dave Freeman
Produced by Bill Gates
Tunes you have asked us to play including some records chosen by Service men and women overseas
Introduced by Roy Williams
Harry Orchid
Betty Huntley-Wright
Gilbert Gordon
Linda Love
G. H. Elliott
Chairman, Rob Currie
Palace of Varieties Chorus
BBC Variety Orchestra
The show produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe
From the Guildhall, Southampton
An hour of light entertainment by the BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, William Armon)
Conductor, Vilem Tausky
Julia Shelley, Owen Brannigan, Campoli
Introduced by Hugh ShirrefT
Produced by John Tylee
Cyril Stapleton directs the BBC Show Band
Songs from the Stargazers
Guest singer, Jimmy Parkinson
Individual music from
Harold Smart , Bert Weedon and Dennis Wilson
Produced by John Browell
' The Good Summer ' by John Hereford
Abridged by Evelyn Gibbs
Read by Cyril Shaps
Last instalment:
' Miss Lennard Intervenes'
Four's Company
Non-stop modern jazz on gramophone records
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