BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
BBC West of England Light Orchestra
Conductor, Frank Cantell
Cecil Norman and Eddie Macauley at two pianos
Tommy Reilly and his harmonica
Jackie Brown at the electric organ
Leslie Baker and his violin
At 6.45 on 1,500 m.
Shipping Forecast
News Summary at 7.30
Light Orchestra
Conductor, David Curry
Ken Sykora
Introduces your request recorda
News Summary at 9.30
A story, a hymn, and a prayer
at the BBC theatre organ
Harold Geller and his Orchestra
From Wales
' Turkey Trot' by David Morgan Rees
Read by John Darran
and his Sextet with Joseph Ward (baritone)
listening to
Christmas songs and tunes that have been collected from all over the world
Produced by Harold Rogers
BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader, John Jezard )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Percy Edwards , Donna Douglas
Donald Peers , Cyril Fletcher
Presented by Bill Worsley
Alyn Ainsworth and the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra
Sheila Buxton, Paul Andrews
Norman George and Jimmy Leach
Introduced by Roger Moffat
News Summary at 1.30
Shipping Forecast at 1.40 on 1,500 m.
Today's story: ' Five Days to Christmas ' by Peggy Jolly , told by Dorothy Smith.
The Things That Strike Me: a personal comment on the week's news
About Town Round About Christmas: Michael Brooke with a topical diversion, and Gordon Gow recommending films
Reading Your Letters and Answering Your Questions
Serial: 'Arctic Bride ' by Wanda Neill Tolboon
Read by Helen Horton
The third of six instalments
Introduced by Teresa McGonagle
News Summary at 2.30
Conducted by Major C. H. Jaeger
Director of Music
News Summary at 3.30
Owen Walters and his Orchestra
played by The Ralph Dollimore Trio and The Frank Horrox Quartet
Johnny Pearson at the piano
Music
News, views, and interviews
Human interest stories
Show business gossip
The world's greatest recording stars and their records
Your host tonight is
Richard Murdoch
This edition includes
6.45 app. Green Fingers
Garden with Fred Yule
6.0 app. Spotlight on a Star
6.15 The Six-Fifteen Spin
My Name is Mary A woman's week
6.29 Weather and News Headlines
At the piano, Dennis Wilson
Produced by Denys Jones
Shipping Forecast at 5.58 on 1,500 m.
Written by Edward J. Mason and Geoffrey Webb.
A story of country folk.
Clifford Webb on tomorrow's fixtures
(Fourth Series)
The story of a school seen through the eyes of the headmaster and his wife by Warren Chetham-Strode
EPISODE 8
Boys of Beddington School played by Douglas Rankin. Murray Head
Sam Jephcott , and Leonard Monaghan
Produced by Audrey Cameron
with Kitty Bluett
Kenneth Connor , Rosalind Knight
Laidman Browne
Script written by Bernard Botting and Charles Hart
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont
A spontaneous discussion by Jack Longland
A. G. Street
Honor Balfour
Trevor Evans
Travelling Question-Master,
Freddy Grisewood
Arranged by Kenneth Hudson
From a factory
Trowbridge, Wiltshire
featuring
Music for Everybody
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, William Arnion )
Conducted by Sidney Torch
Sounding Brass by Morris Motors Band
Guest conductor, Harry Mortimer
Stanley Riley in Harmony and Humour with the BBC Men's Chorus
Conducted by Alan G. Melville and Friday night's star singer:
John Hanson with These You Have Requested
Introduced by Jimmy Kingsbury
Produced by Campbell Ricketts
Before an invited audience at the Camden Theatre, London
News Summary at 9.30
to invite you to listen
Just for a While to
Old Time Dance Music with Sidney Bowman and his Orchestra
Master of Ceremonies,
Stanley Wilson
followed by Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m.
