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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
Leader:
David Adams
Conductor:
David Curry
Conductor:
Malcolm Lockyer

The Light Programme joins the Test Match Special Service

England v. India
TEST MATCH SPECIAL
THIRD TEST MATCH AT HEADINGLEY, LEEDS
SPECIAL SERVICE on the Network Three wavelengths 464 m. (647 kc s) 194 m. (1,546 kcs] VHF: 91.3 Mc and LIGHT PROGRAMME
SPECIAL SERVICE, 11.15-1.35 app. including lunchtime summary 2.10-4.20 app. including teatime summary 4.30 app.-6.0
LIGHT PROGRAMME 6.0-6.35 app. including close-of-play summary

'Don't miss a ball-we broadcast them all'
First Day Ball-by-ball commentaries by Rex Alston, John Arlott, F.R. Brown, Pearson Surita with comment and summaries by Norman Yardley The Maharajkumar of Vijayanagaram

Letter from Johannesburg: recorded there by Barbara McFadyean
Back Street Prairies: more childhood memories from William Taylor
Peter Forster pays a call: at the studio of Fiore de Henriques
Answering Your Questions
Any Complaints about Bread?: a representative of the baking industry answers questions
Serial: 'To Whom She Will ' by R. Prawer Jhabvala
Abridged by Becky Cocking
Read by Robert Eddison
The seventh of thirteen instalments
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson

Contributors

Unknown:
Barbara McFadyean
Unknown:
William Taylor
Unknown:
Peter Forster
Unknown:
R. Prawer Jhabvala
Read By:
Robert Eddison
Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

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'
Semi-Finals (ii)
The whole programme Is devoted to the quiz
Competing in the second round of the semi-finals are:
Dr. Reginald Webster (Lanes.)
Medical Officer of Health
Gerald Fisher (Edinburgh)
Work study engineer
William Henderson (Kinross)
Male nurse
Devised and written by John P. Wynn
Produced by Joan Clark

Contributors

Unknown:
Franklin Engelmann
Unknown:
Dr. Reginald Webster
Unknown:
William Henderson
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
BBC Revue Orchestra
(Leader. Antony Gilbert )
Conductor, Harry Rabinowitz
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:
Fraser Hayes
Leader:
Antony Gilbert
Conductor:
Harry Rabinowitz
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