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Out of the News: involving a topic of interest
The Manatee: Beryl Gilroy remembers a great treat
Michael Brooke About Town
Reading Your Letters
For Your Information: some helpful books reviewed by a doctor
Serial: A Small Wilderness' by Margaret Summerton
Abridged by Donald Bancroft
Read by Mary Wimbush
The sixth of twelve instalments
Introduced by Marjorie Anderson
News Summary at 2.30

Contributors

Unknown:
Beryl Gilroy
Unknown:
Michael Brooke
Abridged By:
Donald Bancroft
Read By:
Mary Wimbush
Introduced By:
Marjorie Anderson

News, views, and music
Thursday edition
Introduced by Ken Sykora
Looking for a Jobt:
Dress Designer, by Catherine Avent
Peter Ustinov tells a story
Crosby Cameo
Record Corner:
Musical Curiosities
Science Spot:
What happens to an itch when vou scratch it by Dr. O. G. Edholm
6.29 Weather and News Headlines followed by Tonight's Topic
Dennis Wilson at the piano
The Fraser Hayes Four
Produced by Jack Singleton
Shipping Forecast at 5.58 on 1,500 m.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Ken Sykora
Unknown:
Catherine Avent
Unknown:
Peter Ustinov
Unknown:
Dr. O. G. Edholm
Unknown:
Dennis Wilson
Produced By:
Jack Singleton

Round the British Isles with Top of the Form

John Ellison and Robert MacDermot are the question-masters in this general knowledge contest between representative teams from girls' and boys' schools in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Edgbaston High School (Girls) v. The Grammar School, West Bridgford (Boys)

Contributors

Question-master:
John Ellison
Question-master:
Robert MacDermot
Questions set by:
Tom Williams
Producer:
Joan Clark

until 4.30 a.m. approx.
Shipping Forecast at 12.0 midnight on 1,500 m.

The music has been recorded by BBC Variety Orchestra
Conductor. Paul Fenoulhet
BBC Northern Ireland
Light Orchestra
Conductor, David Curry The Hermanos Deniz Cuban Rhythm Band
The Night Owls and items from the L.P. albums of Mantovani, Robert Farnon. Frank Chacksfleld
Cyril Stapleton, Stanley Black. Wally Stott
George Melachrino, Reg Owen, Tony Osborne
Johnny Douglas, and Cyril Ornadet
Presented by Bill Sullivan and Norman Mead
(The Hermanos Deniz Cuban Rhythm Band is appearing in Talk of the Town ' at the London Hippodrome)
The music will be interrupted every quarter-hour for the State of the Parties, to he followed on the hour and the half-hour by analyses of results up to date
The bulletins of General Election news broadcast by the BBC are the Copyright Joint Service of the Press Association, ltd., and the cxchangeTelegraphCo.,Ltat.,endateintendedforpfivatereceptiononly

Light Programme

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