James Urquhart introduces your request records

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the BBC theatre organ
Selection: Ten O'Clock Tempo

Ken Beaumont and his Sextet

'The Lost Ones' by Geraldine Bussey
Read by Gladys Spencer

Script by Jonquil Antony

Conductor, Albert Coupe

Ronald Cass at the piano

Directed by Alec Firman

and his Music with Bobbie Britton and Peter Lowe

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Today's story: 'The Newspaper House,' by Emily .Buxton, told by Julia Lang

including
One word; five interpretations-Drink: five people say what it means to them.
Five Hundred Dresses a Day: fashion spotter Eileen Ascroft considers the next three weeks
Can we help to keep prices down? An open letter from a Woman's Hour listener
Reading Your Letters: expressing the listeners' point of view
How much do we know about-Graphology?: a hand-writing expert explains his theories and demonstrates them. See page 8
Serial: 'Getaway' by John Harris
Abridged by Neville Teller
Read by Russell Napier
The twelfth of fifteen instalments
Programme introduced by Marjorie Anderson

(Leader, J. Mouland Begbie )
Conducted by Lawrence Leonard

Band of H.M. Royal Marines (Plymouth)
Conducted by Captain W. Lang, M.B.E., Director of Music

Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Jonquil Antony

at the BBC theatre organ

A programme of dance music with Les Howard and the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Presented by Geoffrey Wheeler

A question ana answer programme in which a panel of scientists reply to listeners' questions
Panel:
Robert Boyd , Harry Collier
Peter Sykes , G. P. Wells In the chair, Sam Pollock
If you have a question you would like to put to the panel please write it on a postcard and address it to Who Knows?,' c/o BBC, Broadcasting House, London, W.I.

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See columns 2 and 3 Frank Wade writes on page 3
All winning choirs in Round I will be invited to take part in a ' Banner of St. George' Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on April 27.

A series about you and your job presented by members of the Younger Generation
3 - I Go to Sea
At the School of Navigation, Southampton, cadets are trained to be officers in the Merchant Navy.
Bill Costello talks to them and to the Director of the School about the train-ing methods and the opportunities offered by a career at sea
Introduced by Don Durbridge
Queries arising from this programme can be sent to Crossroads, [address removed]. A selection will be answered in a special edition on January 29.

visits Alnwick
Ancient Seat of the Dukes of Northumberland and associated with Harry Hotspur with Mabel at ' the table ' and Harry Hudson at the piano
Presented by Stephen Renaud Williams
(Home Services except West) Sunday at 11.0 a.m. (Light)

Defence in the Atom Age
Do we still need a large Navy, Army, and Air Force in the age of the H-Bomb? Are we getting full value lor the one and a half thousand million pounds we are spending on defence this year? Is national service really necessary? Must we plan our defence jointly with our allies? These are some topical aspects of the theme of the fourth edition of this forum for listeners' questions.
The guest is
Lt.-General Sir Brian Horrocks
Percy Cudlipp , D. M. Desoutter , and Richard Goold-Adams follow up your questions, and Robert Reid is again in the chair
Send your questions-maximum 50 words, on postcards please-to The Floor is Yours,' BBC, London, W.i, so that they arrive by Monday, January 14, giving a phone number if possible as well as your address.

Melodious Memories of 1931 Barbara Leigh (soprano)
Thomas Round (tenor) Bruce Trent (baritone)
Recorded contributions by: C. A. Lejeune and W. Macqueen-Pope
BBC Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, William Armon )
Conductor, Vilem Tausky Introduced by John Hobday
Script by Roy Plomley
Production by Michael North and Eric Arden

and his Orchestra with Patti Forbes , Kenny Bardell
Don Cameron and the Mackpies
Part 1

' The Bafut Beagles ' by Gerald Durrell
Read by Oliver Burt
11—' The Fon and the Shillings'

and his Orchestra with Patti Forbes , Kenny Bardell
Don Cameron and the Mackpiea
Part 2

followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m. only