BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Jack Leon
Sidney Bright (piano)
The Albert Delroy Trio
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Conducted by Leo Wurmser
(BBC recording)

News Summary at 7.30 and 8.30
At 7.45 on 1,500 m.

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, Sheila Bromberg (harp) and June Wilson (soprano).

Bill Savill and his Orchestra

by Eleanor Tompkins.
Read by Ysanne Churchman.

(Tuesday's recorded broadcast)

Billy Mayerl and Louis Mordish with Judith Pierce and Michael O'Duffy.
(Judith Pierce broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company)

Carroll Levis presents The Cousins, The de Havillands, Richard Cox, Patricia Terry and Glenda Collins accompanied by the Jackie Brown Quintet.

(BBC recording)

played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra.
(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: 'Tubby Ted's New Chimney' by Ursula Hourihane, told by Dorothy Smith. (BBC recording)

hands over to Joyce Grenfell
Her theme: The Need for Quiet
Her Company includes: Charlotte Mitchell, Denis Matthews, James Fisher, an octogenarian and a group of teenagers.

Serial: A Breeze of Morning
by Charles Morgan.
The eighth of ten instalments.
(Charlotte Mitchell is appearing in 'Tunnel of Love' at Her Majesty's Theatre, London)

News Summary at 2.30

BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conductor, Rae Jenkins

News Summary at 3.30

BBC Scottish Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Nugent)
Conductor, Jack Leon

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

Eddie Carroll and his Music, Southern Serenade (Directed by Lou Whiteson) and David Shand (saxophone).
(David Shand is appearing at the Savoy Hotel, London)

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Shipping Forecast at 5.58 on 1,500 m.

Marion Ryan (in a recorded programme) says The Song's the Thing
and plays records of popular songs past and present.
(Marion Ryan is in Variety at the Hippodrome Theatre, Bristol)

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, Betty Marsden, 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; Betty Marsden is in 'Honour Bright' at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)

Songs and rhythms reflecting the current musical scene.
Accompanied by The Tony Osborne Group.
(BBC recording)

A star-spangled visit to the seaside.

Morecambe and Wise, Double Trouble

The Kaye Sisters, Three in Harmony

Jimmy Clitheroe, The Clitheroe Kid

Ted Lune, Lancashire's Long Laugh

Peter Sinclair, Cock o' the North

Margo Henderson, Impressions at the piano

The Demijeans, Two Boys and a Girl

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)
(Morecambe and Wise are in 'Light Up the Town' at the Winter Gardens, Morecambe; The Kaye Sisters in 'Light Up the Town' at the Hippodrome, Blackpool; Jimmy Clitheroe in 'You'll Be Lucky' at the Queen's Theatre, Blackpool; and Margo Henderson in 'Club Night' at the Palace Theatre, Blackpool)

(Repeated on Friday at 7.0 p.m. Home Service - not Scottish or Welsh)

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

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presents Geraldo and his Orchestra
with Terry Burton and Les Howard.

Reginald Leopold and his Players with Jennifer Leigh.

followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m.