A cheerful selection of gramophone records
Programme Summary
Records of Donald Novis, the popular American vocalist
Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records
played by Billy Ternent and his Dance Orchestra
at the theatre organ
Torch tunes of the times
Popular dance music and songs on gramophone records
sings some well-known songs
Mrs. Wilkes and her brother Ernest at home in their bar-parlour to Howard Marshall and their other friends
Presented by C. F. Meehan and S. E. Reynolds
Raymond Glendenning introduces songs, scenes, and stories of the show business in wartime including
Binnie Hale from ' Up and Doing' Michael Redgrave in an excerpt from
' Thunder Rock' and Peter Yorke and his Concert
Orchestra
played by Leslie England and Doris Hardcastle
(Salisbury Plain) Band
(by permission of the Officers of the Royal
Artillery)
Conducted by Mr. F. J. Harris
Slow march: The Royal Artillery
with Percival Mackey and his Sophisticated Players
Presented by Frank A. Terry with Phil Strickland , George Baines , Ann Verne , Mary Genn , James O'Neill , Edna Green , Len Aster , John Barr ,
Claud Branston
From a Northern seaside resort
Gilbert Stacey began his musical career as solo chorister at Lichfield Cathedral, and played the organ for services there at the age of thirteen. Later he studied in Paris under D'Indy.
After the last war he became musical director to John Tiller , Max Darewski , Ernest Rolls , Albert de Courville , and other leading managers, and conducted at two Royal Command performances before King
George V. His sextet has broadcast regularly since its formation over three years ago. It consists of three violins, viola, cello, and bass, while Stacey himself plays the piano and is responsible for all the arrangements played.
In the little spare time allowed him by his duties as a member of the War Reserve Police Force he runs a scheme for collecting books for the Forces.
Alice goes to town with the Red Hot Queen
A modern adventure in Wonderland written by Harry Alan Towers, with apologies to Lewis Carroll
Presented by Charles Maxwell
and his Orchestra with Dorothy Carless
Van Straten and his Music with Julie Dawn , Cherry Simmonds
Compere, David Miller
with Mario di Pietro; Vera Pearce; Florence Austral; Henry Oscar; and Geraldo and his Orchestra
Guest compere, Owen Nares
The popular Australian singer and band-leader on gramophone records
A programme in Dutch under the auspices of the Dutch Government.
Un programme Francais, pour les Francais, par des Francais
played by The Irish Rhythms Orchestra
Conducted by David Curry with songs by George Beggs
Violet Carson and Edith Roscoe
A new type of parlour game devised by Morley Adams and Neil Munro
A programme of gramophone records BBC Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Stanford Robinson
