BBC Welsh Orchestra
Conducted by Arwel Hughes
Norman Whiteley and his Sextet, The Gerald Crossman Players
(BBC recording)
News Summary at 7.30 and 8.30
At 7.45 on 1,500 m.
G.T.S.; Shipping Forecast
Introduced by Jack Train.
News Summary at 9.30
A story, a hymn, and a prayer.
at the organ of the Tower Ballroom, Blackpool.
The Promenade Players
Conductor, Sidney Bowman
by Peter Shipman.
Read by John Westbrook.
(Wednesday's recorded broadcast)
The George Chisholm Group; The Eddie Thompson Quintet
(BBC recording)
Jean Metcalfe from the BBC Gramstand at the National Radio Show at Earls Court talks to visitors and challenges the BBC Gramophone Library to find their choice in record time.
from a factory canteen in Guisborough, Yorkshire.
[Starring] Ken Platt, Ronnie Hilton, Bill Waddington, The Demijeans accompanied by The Harry Hayward Trio.
Introduced by Randal Herley.
(Ken Platt is in 'Light Up the Town' at the Winter Gardens, Morecambe; Ronnie Hilton is in 'The Show Band Show' at the Futurist Theatre, Scarborough)
[Starring] Malcolm Lockyer
Harry Davidson's Orchestra
Conducted by Sidney Davey
Dennis Stephenson (tenor)
Introduced by Ivan Samson.
News Summary at 1.30
Shipping Forecast at 1.40 on 1,500 m.
Today's story: 'Timmy's Morning Out' by Mrs. A. J. Merry, told by Daphne Oxenford. (BBC recording)
The mystery of an impersonation by Josephine Tey.
Read by Derek Hart.
The fourteenth of fifteen instalments
(Requested by Woman's Hour listeners; originally broadcast in January)
June Paul presents a personal choice of gramophone records.
News Summary at 2.30
Max Jaffa and the Palm Court Orchestra
Visiting artist: Gordon Clinton
(BBC recording)
News Summary at 3.30
Claude Cavalotti and his Orchestra
(BBC recording) Repeated on Friday at 11.15 a.m.
BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, James Hutcheon)
Conducted by Gerald Gentry
(BBC recording)
presents a musical journey to Munich with Irene Prador to hear opera, operetta, and ballet.
Including 'Countess Maritza' with Richard Tauber
'The Flying Dutchman' conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Music from Tchaikovsky's ballet 'Casse Noisette'
The waltzes from 'Der Rosenkavalier' and Bavarian Country Music
Written and introduced by Irene Prador.
(BBC recording)
Shipping Forecast at 5.58 on 1,500 m.
Jean Metcalfe from the BBC Gramstand at the National Radio Show at Earls Court talks to visitors and challenges the BBC Gramophone Library to find their choice in record time.
Reports and commentary by Alun Williams and Jack Reed on the fourth day of the finals in the European Swimming Championships at the National Swimming Stadium, Budapest.
(BBC recording)
[Starring] James McKechnie and Bill Kerr
(BBC recording)
(Bill Kerr is appearing in "You Too, Can Have a Body" at the Victoria Palace; Brewster Mason is in "Flowering Cherry" at the Haymarket Theatre, London)
From the BBC Gramstand at the National Radio Show at Earls Court.
Ken Sykora invites you to listen to some of the changes in jazz and pop music since 1923, the year of the first Radio Show.
[Starring] Charlie Chester
with Deryck Guyler, Mary Law, Bill Pertwee, Jimmy Lavall.
(Recorded broadcast of May 18)
[Starring] Bernard Braden and Dick Bentley
with Vivienne Martin
The singer, Lorrae Desmond
and 'Nearly Everybody Else', Bernard Cribbins
Music written and arranged by Bob Sharples and played by the BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, John Jezard)
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
(BBC recording)
(Vivienne Martin is appearing in "For Amusement Only" at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool)
To be repeated on Sunday at 7.0 p.m.
You are invited to Join In and Sing
with the people of London and The Radio Revellers, Welwyn Garden City Male Voice Choir, conductor, Gordon Williams, Jackie Brown at the electric organ, Kathleen O'Hagan at the piano
A light-hearted programme In which four women with vastly different views on how to manage men give advice to women whose menfolk are sometimes difficult.
The panel: Frances Day, Charmian Innes, Vanessa Lee, Iris Ashley
This week's male guest, Godfrey Harrison
In the chair, Jacqueline Mackenzie
(BBC recording)
Portrayed in jazz by Alex Welsh and his Band with George Chisholm and Diz Disley.
Introduced by Dill Jones.
The Montmartre Players (Directed by Henry Krein), Julie Dawn and Sidney Bright at the piano.
followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m.
