Introduced by Neal Arden
At 9.30 app. Molly Hargrave gives today's Shopping Flash

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the BBC theatre organ

Jack Nathan and his Band

followed by MORNING STORY
'The Search for the Little Yellow Men’
A true adventure story written and read by Macdonald Hastings
3—' The Great Thirst '

played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

Light Orchestra
Conductor, David Curry

(Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted by Leo Wurmser

Today's story: ‘Go to sleep, Charles' by Ruth Ainsworth , told by Daphne Oxenford.

including
Guest of the Week:
Mary Somerville, O.B.E .
Spring Cleaning: L. A. Shepherd tackles the walls and paintwork
Reading Your Letters: expressing the listeners' point of view
Counsel from Canada-2: a panel of speakers in Toronto including Isabel Wilson ,
Ralph Allen , and Arthur Piggot , answer questions put to them by Freda Hawkins on behalf of Woman's
Hour listeners in Britain
See page 57
Serial: ‘Madam, Will You Talk? ' by Mary Stewart
Read by Mary Wimbush
The eighth of fifteen instalments
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson

A handicap race run over a distance of one mile.
Commentary by Raymond Glendenning, assisted by Claude Harrison as race-reader from the Grandstand, and by Peter O'Sullevan from the mobile transmitter on the course.
From Carholme Racecourse, Lincoln

and his Band of Renown play afternoon dance music on gramophone records

Lionel Monte and his Orchestra

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

' The Story of Ovideo' by Frank Headland
Read by Robert Rietty
3—‘Pussy's in the Well’

(Leader, Reginald Stead )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Hervey Alan (bass-baritone)

at the piano

Greetings from young members of Her Majesty's Forces to their parents at home. Together they challenge the BBC Gramophone Library to produce their choice in record time
Introduced by Alan Dixon
Produced by Michael Bell
The programme this week comes from the R.A.O.C./R.E.M.E. Junior Leaders' School, Blackdown, Hants

Decisions reached by the County Cricket Advisory Committee to brighten and promote greater interest in the game in this country are discussed by S. C. Griffith
Assistant Secretary of the M.C.C
N. W. D . Yardley former Captain of Yorkshire and England and E. W . Swanton cricket writer and broadcaster
Chairman, Rex Alston
Produced by Angus Mackay

Records of songs from two famous musical films sung by the original artists
* Easter Parade' starring Judy Garland
Fred Astaire and Peter Lawford
4 Words and Music * starring. Mickey Rooney
Betty Garrett ,Lena Home
June Allyson , and Judy Garland

with Wallas Eaton
The Keynotes
BBC Revue Orchestra
Conductor. Harry Rabinowitz
Script: Frank Muir and Denis Norden
Produced by Charles Maxwell

by Dodie Smith
Adapted and produced by Martyn C. Webster
(Continued in next column)

and his Ballroom Orchestra in a programme of music for dancing
Introduced by Victor Silvester

' Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
(to be read in ten instalments)
Abridged by Audrey Lucas
Read by Carleton Hobbs
Instaiment 8

Ernie Wilkins --Arranger
Dick Norton surveys the work of one of the top arrangers in jazz
Produced by Jack Dabbs

followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m. only