BBC Midland Light Orchestra
(Leader, James Hutcheon )
Conducted by Gerald Gentry
Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Bid Phillips and his Band
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Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet with the BBC Variety Orchestra
(Leader. John Jezard )

Introduced by Paul Adam
News Summary at 9.30

A story, a hymn, and a prayer

played by Geraldo and his Orchestra
(Continued in next column) featuring songs with strings
With Terry Burton and Steve Martin
Introduced by Bruce Wyndham
Produced by David Miller

Fred Alexander and his Players

' On a Bench in the Park' by E. R. Gard 'ner
Read by David Garth

Script by Jonquil Antony

Requests from overseas listener* played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Introduced by Victor Silvester
Presented by David Miller

with ' Pee Wee ' Hunt and his
Twelfth Street Rag Band
Introduced by Gerald Solomon

Carroll Levis presents
Paddy Carney , The Monachords Vicki Lee The Shades of Eight Swing Quintet
Maureen Harrison and The Continentals accompanied by The Jackie Brown Quintet Produced by John Hooper

featuring
The Eric Delaney Band with Gene Williams
Presented by Rex Burrows
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Story: 'Nicholas Helps with Washing Up ' by Elizabeth Coleman , told by Daphne Oxenford.

Guest of the Week: Dr. George Taylor. F.R.S.E., Director of the Royal
Botanic Gardens at Kew
Letter from Australia: Ida Jenkins sends more news from Sydney.
(Continued in neat column)
How to Make Local Government More Effective: V. D. Lipman talks about an investigation that begins this month
Reading Your Letters
Canned in Winter: Hilfirie Flood remembers a spell of work in a canning factory last year.
The Little Willow by Frances Towers
Read by Patience Collier
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
News Summary at 2.30

Requested music played by the BBC Welsh Orchestra
(Leader, Philip Whiteway ) Conductor, Rae Jenkins
Before an invited audience at the VHF Exhibition in the City Hall, Cardiff
News Summary at 3.30

Syd Dean and his Band

5.0 SHOW TIME A parade of popular melodies from the stage recalled by Louise Traill , Denis Martin
BBC Studio Choir
(Trained by Alan G. Melville )
BBC Concert Orchestra
(Leader, William Armon )
Conductor, Vilem Tausky
Introduced by John Webster
Produced by John Tylee
Including music from ' Pacific 1860: ' Irma La Douce,' and ' Wonder Bar '

Music for everyone
News, views, and interviewa
The latest and the best of records
Your host tonight la
Alan Dell
This edition include*
Kenneth Home in Amiable Anecdotage
The Peggy Lee Story
Roundabout's singer of the week:
Margo Henderson
1.29 Weather and News Headline* followed by Tonight'* Topic Dennis Wilson at the piano
BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, John Jezard )
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
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Written by Geoffrey Webb and Edward J. Mason.
A story of country folk.

with Bernard Bresslaw
Gladys Morgan , Dick Emery
Warren Mitchell
Script by Ronald Wolfe ,
Ronald Chesney , and Marty Feldmao
Produced by Jacques Brown

You too can be a detective
Devised by Tony Shryane and Edward J. Mason listeners are invited to join with a panel of experts in testing their powers of crime detection.
' Hospital Case '
Written by Edward J. Mason
Actors:
Panel of Experts:
John Arlott. F. R. Buckley and Robert Fabian
Produced by Tony Shryane

Records you have asked us to play, Including some chosen by Service men and women overseas
Presented by Michael Brooke

to
Eleanor Summerfield and Leonard Sachs and Wilfred Babbage
Script by Eric Barker
Produced by Charles Maxwell

' An evening setting for romance featuring
Eric Jupp and his Orchestra with Bill Povey , Jock Bain and Stan Roderick
Introduced by David Gell Produced by John Browell

An invitation to meet the beat featuring Top Tunes from Glen Mason and Toni Eden
Jazz Corner with the Mairants-Lester Quartet
Dancing in the Dark
A quiet sequence of music featuring the world's top songs and melodies of memory
Hum Along with the Michael Sammes Singers and Jackie Brown
The Swinging Strings and the Top Ten Men
Directed by Malcolm Lockyer
Production by Johnnie Stewart and Geoffrey Owen
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