Back home in Britain the drunkometer was being tried out, it tested the amount of alcohol on the breath.

The BBC announced it was revamping its radio schedules after losing audience to television. The evening audience for radio as shrunk from four and a half million to three and a half million. Eight years ago the evening audience for radio was eight million. Radio planners thought hourly news summaries and an earlier start for the Light Programme might win them back an audience.

Chelsea football club was causing a stir with a new striker…he was just seventeen, his name was Jimmy Greaves.

Music Feature

RUSS HAMILTON - THE LIVERPOOL SOUND OF 1957 Several years before the Beatles hit the big time, there was a singer songwriter who was helping put the city of Liverpool on the map in 1957. Ronald Hulme started in showbusiness as a Butlin's Redcoat where he started a skiffle group so as well as saying hi de hi to campers, he was singing to them too! He was spotted and got a chance to make his first record. The history of his big hit single We Will Make Love is an interesting one. That song became the big hit in Britain, but in the United States it was the B side that became the hit - Rainbow. It reached No.4 in the US, a rare achievement for a British singer. We Will Make Love reached No.2. The follow up in September 1957 was another song he wrote himself, and legend has it that he wrote it with his girlfriend in mind. Wedding Ring was a smaller hit, managing to scrape into the Top Twenty. Both hits were on the Oriole label. Russ recorded many other songs, but they failed to make the chart. More details about Russ's recordings can be found at www.45-rpm.org.uk

Join John Hayes for his Journey Back In Time, a nostalgic look back at music and memories from a chosen year, this Sunday from 9am on 103.5 & 95.3FM - BBC Essex.