This weekend's food news by Ruth Drew
Records you have asked to hear
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
The Bob Cort Skiffle Group with Blues singer George Melly and Dill Jones (piano)
Producer, Jimmy Grant
The Gerald Crossman Players
Fred Loads, Bill Sowerbutts. and Alan Gemmell invite you to join them at a ' Gardeners' Question Time ' in which they answer spontaneous questions put by their hosts, the Hillsborough and District Horticultural Society, Northern Ireland
Question-Master, Freddy Grisewood
Music by British Composers
Arthur Sullivan : Arthur Bliss
Wallace; Stephen Adams
Elgar; Eric Coates
Edward German ; Vaughan Williams
BBC Welsh Orchestra
(Leader, Philip Whiteway)
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Duncan Robertson (tenor)
with Terry Walsh and Miguel Delgado
Lancashire v. Yorkshire
Middlesex v. Sussex
Commentaries on the closing overs before lunch by Robert Hudson from Old Trafford, and by E. W. Swanton from Lord's
introducing the Hedge-Sparrow *
Each week at this time Eric Simms introduces one of the birds that you may hear in your garden at this time of the year, and tells you how you may distinguish it from other summer songsters.
Ann Driver , Marjorie Westbury and Maurice Bevan include, ' Oh my Kitten, a Kitten ' and the ' Washing Song' in a programme introduced by John Webster.
and his Novelty Sextet
Parachuting
Raymond Baxter takes part in pre-jump training with members of the British Parachute Club at Fairoaks Aerodrome, Surrey, and talks with James Basnett as he prepares for the parachute jump which he will describe at 2.50
The British Games
(Organised by the News of the World)
Incorporating
The Inter-County Championships
Harold Abrahams assesses form and prospects
Rex Alston describes the races
From the White City Stadium, London
Parachuting: The Jump
James Basnett tells you what it feels like to ' jump ' as he makes a ' free drop ' from an aeroplane flying between 1,500 and 2,000 ft.
Further commentaries
The British Games
Further news from the White City
at Hurst Park
Winston Churchill Stakes
For four-year-olds and upwards
Commentary by Raymond Glendenning, assisted by Tom E. Webster as race-reader
From Hurst Park Racecourse
Further commentaries
Alastair Dunnett visits Earls Court
European Zone: Third Round
France v. Great Britain
Commentary by Max Robertson during the first day's play
From the Stade Roland Garros
By arrangement with Radiodiffusion-Télévision Franchise
Further commentaries
A further visit to Earls Court
Paul Martin talks to motorists passing through Southend Airport, and recordings are played for them from the studio in London
The British Games incorporating
The Inter-County Championships
A report by Harold Abrahams , including commentaries recorded by Rex Alston
From the White City Stadium: London
Lancashire v. Yorkshire
Middlesex r. Sussex
Further commentaries followed by summaries of the day's p]ay
The Davis Cup
Max Robertson gives further news
Shipping Forecast at 5.58 on 1,500 m.
introducing
The Art Tatum Trio:
Art Tatum (piano)
Slam Stewart (bass)
Everett Barksdale (guitar) playing ' The Man I Love ' and ' Body and Soul '
(Recordings made available by courtesy of ' Voice of America')
6 — ' Walking Round the City '
If you go to record a plumber without telling him that you are coming, you are liable to find that he is out. On the other hand, the door may be answered by his brother or his cousin who is a night-club proprietor, a taxidermist, or a bassoon player, and if you have any sense you will not look a gift horse in the mouth. For the last of his series, Paul Ferris presents a programme of voices recorded in just this way.
including Sports Reports with cricket close of play scorea
The host of Club Calypso,
Edric Connor invites you to dance to the music of George Browne and the Caribbean Players and meet guest Calypsonians who sing for your pleasure
Produced by David Miller
A story of country folk.
The second of six concerts
This concert is also being relayed by Statsradiofonien and Norddeutscher Rundfunk
In which Jack Payne introduces popular gramophone records from here, there, and everywhere
Produced by Denys Jones
to the music of Eric Winstone and his Orchestra with Shirley Norman
Ray Merrell , Colin Prince and the Roy Marsh Trio
From Butlin's Holiday Camp,
Clacton-on-Sea
followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m. only
