A cheerful selection of gramophone records

Programme summary

Records of Jack Simpson (xylophone)

Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records

played by Herman Darewski and his New Rhythm Orchestra

on gramophone records

Mrs Wilkes and her brother Ernest at home in their bar-parlour to Howard Marshall and their other friends

Raymond Glendenning introduces songs, scenes, and stories of the show business in wartime including excerpts from George Black 's latest revue, ' Apple Sauce '
Scenes from ' Chu Chin Chow ' and Peter Yorke and his Concert
Orchestra

and his Orchestra

Conductor, Stanley G. Owen
Selection of Ivan Caryll melodies

with Billy Reid and his Band

played by Michal Hambourg (piano)
This young virtuoso-she is only twenty—showed her great talent for the piano from the age of eight when she made a gramophone record with her father, Mark Hambourg. As a young child she toured with him, and gave her first concert at the age of eleven with her cousin, Charles Hambourg , the conductor. When she was fifteen she went to the Royal College of Music, and gave her first recital at the Grotrian Hall three years ago. She gave a concert with her father in Queen's Hall last February.
With her dark hair and dark eyes and pale pastel complexion, Michal Hambourg is among the loveliest of our broadcasters. Her husband is Edward Lewis , the architect, who has designed a music room for her in their home in Kensington. She played the concerto in D, reputed to be by Haydn, at a Prom two years ago, and is to play again at a Prom on September 3. She has also played at the National Gallery midday concerts. This is her first broadcast to the Forces.

Leader, Boris Pecker
Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum
The programme presented and introduced by Reginald Smith

Donald Edge and Charles Groves at two pianos in a programme of rhythm and melody

and his Gypsy Orchestra with Anne Lawrence
A Russian village fête; Guy-da
Troika ; Roumanian folk songs ; The little farmhouse ; Hungarian folk songs ; The plaint of the dove ; The merchants

with Jack Buchanan , Henry Oscar , Morton Fraser , Billy Milton , Dorothy Ward , Edith Day , and Geraldo's Orchestra
Guest compere, Robert Donat

A topical programme specially recorded in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission for Australians serving overseas

Dance music by the Band of a Royal Air Force Station ' somewhere in the North'
Although these bandsmen are now in Air Force blue, in peace-time most of them were members of well-known dance bands in London and elsewhere. A feature of the band is the ',Swing Five ', who specialise in original rhythmic arrangements.

A programme in Dutch under the auspices of the Dutch Government.

(Sec Home Service)

Un programme Francais, pour les Francais, par des Francais

A programme of requests sent in by Home listeners and played especially for their relatives and friends in the Forces

sung by Laelia Finneberg (soprano)
My Lagan love ; A Ballynure ballad;
I know where I'm goin' ; Johnny O'Reilly ; Una Waun
Few people realise that Laelia Finneberg is British. Although bom in Liverpool, she spent most of her early life in Dublin, where she had her first lessons at the piano at the age of four. Later she studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music, but only with the idea of becoming" an amateur. At seventeen she obtained a post in the Bank of Ireland, but continued her musical studies. After winning great- success at the Dublin Musical Festival she was advised to take up music professionally and went to Vienna to study. Since that time she has appeared with many of the leading orchestras in Europe.

A gramophonic reminiscence

At 11 p.m. News in English is broadcast on 373 m. for listeners abroad.