BBC Midland Light Orchestra
Conducted by Leo Wurmser
Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Sid Phillips and his Band
At 6.45 on 1,500 m.
Shipping Forecast
News Summary at 7.30
Conducted by Paul Fenoulhet with the BBC Variety Orchestra
Richard Murdoch
Introduces your request records
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 Peter King Produced by David Miller
(BBC General Overseas Service production)
Gerald Crossman and his Players
' Mr. Dandridge Leaves Town ' by Jacques Gillies
Read by Frank Duncan
Script by Lesley Wilson
Requests from overseas listeners played by Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
Introduced by Victor Silvester
Presented by David Miller
(BBC General Overseas Service production)
with Joe Bushkin and his Band
Introduced by Gerald Solomon
(Recordings made available by courtesy of ' Voice of America ')
Carroll Levis presents
Margaret Lister , Claude Palmer and Lloyd Palmer , Harry Hibbert , The Bobcats, Jean Holland , and The Wooltown Jazz Band with The Jackie Brown Quintet
Produced by John Hooper
The Eric Delaney Band with Gene Williams
Presented by Rex Burrows
News Summary at 1.30
Shipping Forecast at 1.40 on 1,500 m.
Today's story: ' The Tired Train ' by Leila Berg , told by Daphne Oxenford.
From the West of England including
Impressions of nursing in U.S.A. and of an unexpected pastime; opinions about domestic deep freeze; the reading of a ballad; speculations concerning children; advice on clothes for holidays abroad
Introduced by Daphne Hubbard
(Continued in next column)
Serial: ' The Small Miracle' by Paul Galileo
Abridged by Robert Goodyear
Read by Hugh David
The third of four instalments
News Summary at 2.30
Requested music played by the BBC Welsh Orchestra
(Leader, Philip Whiteway ) Conductor, Rae Jenkins
News Summary at 3.30
Claude Cavalottl and his Orchestra
Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Lesley Wilson
A parade of popular melodies from the stage
Music for everyone
News, views, and interviews
The latest and the best of records
Your host tonight Is
Alan Dell
This edition includes
' You Can't Live with Women ' says Stephen Grenfell
The Peggy Lee Story
Roundabout's singer of the week:
Eric Wilson-Hyde with Hugo D'Alton (mandolin) and Chick Laval (guitar)
6.29 Weather and News Headlines followed by Tonight's Topic
The music of the Roundabouters
Directed by Dennis Wilson
Produced by Trafford Whitelock
Shipping Forecast at 5.58 on 1.500 m.
A story of country folk.
with Bernard Bresslaw
Gladys Morgan , Dick Emery
Warren Mitchell
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
* Camera Shy
Written by Edward J. Mason
Actors:
Panel of Experts:
John Arlott , F. R. Buckley ,
Robert Fabian
Produced by Tony Shryane
(The recorded broadcast of December 20, 1968, in the Midland Home Service)
Records you have asked us to play, including some chosen by Service men and women overseas
Presented by Michael Brooke
to
Dick Bentley and Deryck Guyler , Denise Bryer
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 Joan Small
Jazz Corner with The Leslie Baker Quintet
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
News Summary at 11.30
Shipping Forecast on 1,500 m.