BBC Northern Ireland Light Orchestra
(Led by Henry Tye)
Conductor, David Curry
Norman Whiteley and his Sextet
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Led by Stanley Browne)
Conductor, Gerald Gentry
(BBC recording)

News Summary at 7.30 and 8.30
At 7.45 on 1,500m.
Greenwich Time Signal; Shipping Forecast

Neal Arden introduces your request records.

News Summary at 9.30

A story, a hymn, and a prayer.

Michael Brooke opens The Music Box
with the Cecil Norman Rhythm Players, Stella Chapman (soprano) and Gordon Farrall (baritone).

Jack White and his Band

written and read by Robert Bateman.

(Tuesday's recorded broadcast)

with Lola Rand.

with Claudo, Lopez, and Frank Holder.

Carroll Levis presents Wally McKinley, Ronald de Lima, Ellen Spencer, Keith Hamshere and The Kestrels.
Accompanied by The Jackie Brown Quintet

(BBC recording)

Requests from overseas listeners played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra.
Introduced by Victor Silvester.
(BBC recording)
(A production by the BBC's General Overseas Service)
News Summary at 1.30
Shipping Forecast at 1.40 on 1,500 m.

Today's story: 'Mister Whiskers' by Ivy Trembath, told by Daphne Oxenford. (BBC recording)

Including:

Guest of the Week: Dame Maggie Teyte

Letter from Sydney: Ida Jenkins sends more news from Australia.

Links in the Chain: A hospital nurse, Thelma Rumsby, talks to Victor Silvester.

It Was Easier For Us: Janet McLeod reflects on changing attitudes to sexual morality.

Now We Call Her Judy: Marie Bracie tells the story of a dog.

Serial: A Breeze of Morning
by Charles Morgan.
The third of ten instalments.

Introduced by Marjorie Anderson.

News Summary at 2.30

Requested music played by the BBC Welsh Orchestra.
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
(BBC recording)

News Summary at 3.30

Ronnie Munro and his Orchestra

(BBC recording)
Repeated on Thursday at 11.15 a.m.

A kaleidoscope of melody featuring Louis Mordish and his Players, The Grinzing Players (Directed by Charles Katz), Edward Rubach (piano) and Arnie Kitson (xylophone) accompanied by Gerald Crossman (piano).
(Arnie Kitson is appearing at the Grand Hotel, Torquay)

Vera Lynn says The Song's the Thing
and plays records of popular songs past and present

News Summary at 6.30

Written by Edward J. Mason and Geoffrey Webb.
A story of country folk.
(BBC recording)

[Starring] Frankie Howerd
with Dora Bryan, Freddie Mills, Ronnie Barker, Maria Charles, Elizabeth Fraser, Lee Young, John Forde.

(BBC recording)
(Dora Bryan is appearing in 'Living for Pleasure' at the Garrick Theatre, London; Lee Young in 'The Fel-De-Rols' at the Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne)

songs and rhythms reflecting the current musical scene.
accompanied by The Tony Osborne Group.

(BBC recording)

A star-spangled visit to the seaside.

Norman Evans, Over the garden wall

Alma Cogan, A Laugh in her Voice

Ken Dodd: The Unpredictable

Rawicz and Landauer, Kings of the Keyboard

Bill Waddington: Witty Willie

Percy Edwards The Bird Man

The Maple Leaf Four, Singing Canadians

Your resident stars are:
Reginald Dixon, Mr. Blackpool himself and the Littlewood Songsters

Introduced by Jack Watson.
BBC Northern Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Alyn Ainsworth

(BBC recording)

(Alma Cogan is in 'Light Up the Town' at the Winter Gardens, Morecambe; Norman Evans in 'Hey There!' at the Regal Theatre, South Pier; Ken Dodd in 'Let's Have Fun' at the Central Pier; Rawicz and Landauer are in 'The New Hylda Baker Show' at the Winter Gardens Pavilion, Blackpool)

Tunes you have asked us to play, including some records chosen by Service men and women overseas.
Presented by Michael Brooke.

with Edmundo Ros and his Latin-American Orchestra.
(The Orchestra broadcasts by permission of Edmundo Ros' Club, London)

Reginald Leopold and his Players with Jennifer Leigh

Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m.