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BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader, Antony Gilbert)
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
BBC Northern Ireland Light Orchestra
(Leader, David Adams)
Conductor, David Curry
Malcolm Lockyer and his Orchestra

News Summary at 7.30
At 7.45 on 1,500 m. G.T.S., Shipping Forecast

Contributors

Leader:
Antony Gilbert
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
Leader:
David Adams
Conductor:
David Curry
Conductor:
Malcolm Lockyer

Challengers Forward: Philip Marsden gives further instructions and advice for the Cage Word Contest 1959
Playing a Shrill for Sawlis: Margaret Parr describes her life as a busker
Overheard: conversation between three fashion journalists. (BBC recording)
Report on Reports: by Paul Leach.
(Continued in next column)
Reading Your Letters
The Month in the Country: Tony Stoney talks about May
Serial: One Woman Farm ' by Betty Lussier
Abridged by Joan Skinner
Read by Joan Miller
The first of seven instalments
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
News Summary at 2.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Philip Marsden
Unknown:
Margaret Parr
Unknown:
Paul Leach.
Talks:
Tony Stoney
Unknown:
Betty Lussier
Abridged By:
Joan Skinner
Read By:
Joan Miller
Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

Music for everyone
News, views, and interviews
The latest and the best of records
Your host tonight Is
Ken Sykora
This edition Includes
Roundabout's singer of the week:
Dickie Valentine
Crosby Cameo
Hints for Outdoor Activities:
Collecting Battlefields * by Frances Haywood
Geraint Evans on Glyndebourne
Six-fifteen Spin: favourites respun
Science Spot: 0. G. Edholm , D.sc on A Touch of the Sun
6.29 Weather and News Headlines followed by Tonight's Topic by Brian Groombridge
Teenage Talking Point: Should Young
People have the Vote at 18 Dennis Wilson at the piano
. Produced by Jack Singleton
Shipping Forecast at 5.58 on 1,500 m.

Contributors

Unknown:
Frances Haywood
Unknown:
Geraint Evans
Unknown:
G. Edholm
Unknown:
Brian Groombridge
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Produced By:
Jack Singleton

Franklin Engelmann is the chairman of this general knowledge contest in which listeners from all over the British Isles compete for the title
' Brain of Britain 1959'
Second Round
6-Scotland (ii)
Mary Vaughan (Glasgow)
Housewife
William Henderson (Kinross)
Male Nurse
Alexander Gordon (Glasgow)
Student
The programme also includes
' Hear! Hear! '
A. test of memory for listeners at home and in the audience
Devised and written by John P. Wynn
Produced by Joan Clark

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Mary Vaughan
Unknown:
William Henderson
Unknown:
Alexander Gordon
Written By:
John P. Wynn
Produced By:
Joan Clark

A sort of radio show with Kenneth Williams , Hugh Paddick
Betty Marsden , Bill Pertwee
Patricia Lancaster
The Fraser Hayes Four and the BBC Variety Orchestra (Leader, John Jezard)
Conductor, Paul Fenoulhet
Eric Merriman and Barry Took wrote the script and Edwin Braden the incidental music
Produced by Jacques Brown

Contributors

Unknown:
Kenneth Williams
Unknown:
Hugh Paddick
Unknown:
Betty Marsden
Unknown:
Bill Pertwee
Unknown:
Patricia Lancaster
Unknown:
Fraser Hayes
Leader:
John Jezard
Conductor:
Paul Fenoulhet
Conductor:
Eric Merriman
Conductor:
Barry Took
Conductor:
Edwin Braden
Produced By:
Jacques Brown

Light Programme

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More