Shipping Forecast

BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, John Jezard )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Sid Phillips and his Band The Ian Stewart Quartet
News Summary at 7.30 and 8.30

Bob Danvers Walker introduces your request records
News Summary at 9.30

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

and his Apache Band

Cecil Norman and the Rhythm Players

' Stolen Fruit' by Evelyn Windass
Read by Philip Scott

at the BBC theatre organ

A programme of records
Presented by Robert Farnon

from an asbestos factory in Watford, Hertfordshire with The Kentones, Danny Levan
Marion Ryan , Arthur English
James Moody (piano) Bert Weedon (guitar) Max Abrams (drums)
Presented by Bill Gates

with Oscar Rabin and his Orchestra
Directed by David Ede and Mel Gaynor , Lorie Mann
Johnny Worth introducing
' Rabin Remembers '
Three Men and a Mann
' Solo Spot'
Introduced by Bruce Wyndham
Produced by John Hooper.
(Ojcar Rabin and his Orchestra are appearing at the Lyceum Ballroom, London)
News Summary at 1.30
Shipping Forecast at 1.40 on 1,500 m.

Today's story: ' The Bundles' Easter Egg Hunt ' by Ursula Hourihane , told by Dorothy Smith.

Miss X: Paul Cornforth describes a young woman he has never forgotten
Primroses to Kookaburras: Easter gardens on four continents described by their owners. Recording)
Things Oft Thought: Patric Dickinson introduces a poem by Edward Thomas , read by Marjorie Anderson.
Reading Your Letters: expressing listeners' points of view
Log Things: The excitement of a child observed by Maurice Ives
Serial: 'The Sleeping Mountain' by John Harris
Abridged by Neville Teller
Read by Russell Napier
The first of ten instalments
Programme Introduced by Margaret Hubble
News Summary at 2.30

A programme of dance music with Les Howard and the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth
Presented by Geoffrey Wheeler
News Summary at 3.30

Metropolitan Police Central Band
Conducted by Roger Barsotti
Director of Music

In Italy, Richard and Sally happily made plans for their wedding. Mrs. Freeman was not pleased about the engagement. Janet's parents were distraught when they discovered she had left home, leaving no message. She was determined to join Peter, but on going to his Bristol office she found he had not been transferred there. Mrs. Leathers remained under observation in hospital, but to Mrs. Dale's relief Joanna undertook to look after Baby. Vicky told Bob the specialist's diagnosis meant there was a risk of her going blind. S
Productions this week by Betty Davies and Wyn Knowles

A programme of music to suit all tastes
The Promenade Players
Conductor, Sidney Bowman
Sidney Davey and his Players and Stanley Riley (bass)

with Ray Merrell , Joan Small and Colin Prince and featuring
The Roy Marsh Trio
The Alan Moorehouse Singers and The Dennis Walton Saxophone Quintet
Introduced by Eric Winstona
Produced by Geoffrey Owen
News Summary at 6.30

A story of country folk.

visits
Alderney (or Aurigny) the third largest of the Channel Islands, from which the arrival of the Spanish Armada was first signalled by ' gallant merchant ship ' :
' Her crew had seen Castile's Black Fleet beyond Aurigny's Isle
At earliest twilight on the waves lie heaving many a mile ' (Macaulay) with Mabel at ' The Table' and Harry Hudson at the piano
Presented by Stephen Williams

PART 1

featuring
Sidney James
Bill Kerr , Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams
Written by Alan Simpson and Ray Gallon
Produced by Tom Ronald

Part 2

True stories of the world we live In
16—'THE DRAGONFLY
FERRY'
When the Norwegian ship Dovrefiell ran aground in a gale in the Pentland Firth she radioed that she was in no immediate danger, but lifeboats and a destroyer went to her aid. Suddenly the signal ' situation dangerous' was received, and a new chapter in the history of saving life at sea began. Helicopters hovered above the waves breaking over the ship and rescued all forty-one aboard her.
Script by Stanley Maxton
Produced by Robin Richardson in the BBC's Glasgow studios

You are invited to dance to the music of Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra featuring all that is best in ballroom dancing
Produced by David Miller

with Sidney Bright and his Music

followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m. only