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JAN BERENSKA AND HIS ORCHESTRA

on BBC Home Service Basic

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At the age of fifteen Jan Berenska gave his first broadcast in the days of crystal sets from SIT, the studio at Witton, Birmingham Rather more than eight years ago he began broadcasting with his orchestra from
Leamington Spa. In 1935 he formed his dance band and has toured it all over England. He has also played first violin and accordion with Jack Wilson 's Versatile Five.
He gave a recital in the Birminghani Town Hall when he was in his early teens, playing threeinstruments-piano, violin, and cello-and he has 'made a celebrity tour with Peter Dawson.

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Jack Wilson
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Peter Dawson.

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