played today by BBC Welsh Orchestra
(Leader, Philip Whiteway) Conductor, Rae Jenkins
Melody on Strings
Directed by Max Jaffa
Louis Mordish and his Players
News Summary at 7.30 and 8.30
At 7.45 on 1,500 m.
Shipping Forecast

Richard Murdoch
Introduces your request records
News Summary at 9.30

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

at the organ of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

The Gerald Crossman Players

From the West of England
' Alfred and the Mice' by B. L. Jacot
Read by Hedley Goodall

Script by Jonquil Antony

Conductor, F. J. Roberts

Listeners' requests
Introduced and played by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ

from a factory canteen in Manchester
Arthur English, Jill Day
Jack Watson , The King Brothers accompanied by The Harry Hayward Trio
Introduced by Jack Watson
Produced by James Casey

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra
Harry Dawson (tenor)
Introduced by Ivan Samson M.C. , Charles Crathorn
Produced by Eric Arden
News Summary at 1.30
Shipping Forecast at 1.40 on 1,500 m

Today's story: 'Taking Daddy's Dinner' by Roberta M. Ward , told by Julia Lang.

From Northern Ireland
Marjorie Daunt recalls starting a coloured Old People's Club in Cape Town.
Where and When: Olga Dunbar reflects on holiday planning
Smile, Please: a dental crisis faced by Liz Croft
Mother Knows Best: thoughts from Patricia MacLachlan
James Boyce interviews the . Hon Mrs. L. V. Probert on greyhounds
Introduced by Lucie Young
(Continued in next column)
Serial: ' No Name ' by Wilkie Collins
Abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by Derek Hart
The sixth of seventeen instalments
News Summary at 2.30

Reginald Leopold and the Palm Court Orchestra
This afternoon's visiting artist:
Laurie Payne
News Summary at 3.30

The Jack Emblow Sextet

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

Music from theatre and films played by the BBC West of England
Light Orchestra
(Leader, Frederick Lunnon ) Conductor. Frank Cantell

Irene Prador makes a musical journey to
Scandinavia featuring
Kirsten Flagstad
Boris Christoff , Robert Riefling including music by Grieg, Ole Bull and Sibelius with from Norway:
TheOslo Philharmonic Orchestra from Sweden:
The Gunnar Lundgren Orchestra from Finland:
The Finlandia Orchestra
Produced by John Powell
(BEC recording)
Shipping Forecast at 5.58 on 1,500 m.

The Lawn Tennis Championships
Latest results and commentary by Rex Alston and Max Robertson, with summaries and comments by Alf Chave
From the All England Club
One-minute news summary between 6.30 and 6.35

Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.
A story of country folk.

Franklin Engelmann is the chairman of this general knowledge contest in which listeners from all over the British Isles compete for the title
' Brain of Britain 1958 '
Semi-Finals (2)
The whole of this programme will be devoted to the quiz
Competing in the second round of the Semi-Finals are:
Terence Bond
(Nottinghamshire)
Local Government Officer
Thomas Mountain (Glasgow)
Lamplighter
Tom Sinclair (Glasgow)
Civil Servant
Devised and written by John P. Wynn
Produced by Joan Clark

Ken Sykora
Invites you to glance back at what the personalities of jazz and pop music were doing in 1950

with Deryck Guyler, Mary Law, Bill Pertwee, Jimmy Lavall
Script written by Bernard Botting and Charles Hart
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont

A panel game
The great minds are:
Jimmy Edwards , Ted Ray
Tommy Trinder , Larry Adler
In the chair, McDonald Hobley
From an idea by Jimmy Edwards

A weekly series featuring, on records, some of the world's top popular entertainers
Tonight's stars are:
The Platters
Bing Crosby June Christy
Presented by Brian Matthew

Anona Winn , Joy Adamson
Jack Train and Kenneth Home ask all the questions and Gilbert Harding knows some of the answers
Presented by C. F. Meehan

Bix Beiderbecke
A tribute to this great jazzman with record illustrations
Ken Rattenbury (trumpet) in the first broadcast of his
Suite for Jazz Band: ' Mirror to Blx* with the Steve Race Six
Introduced by Steve Race Produced by Jimmy Grant

Danny Levan (violin) with bass and guitar and Dennis Wilson (piano)
News Summary at 11.30

followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m.