A cheerful selection of gramophone records
Records of George Melachrino
Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records
to records of the London Accordion Band
followed by DONALD THORNE at the theatre organ
Popular medley
Directed by Jack Hardy
Doris Gambell (soprano)
F. H. Grisewood brings to the microphone people in the news, people talking about the news, and interesting visitors to Britain
(A recording of last night's broadcast)
Some records of symphonic jazz
sung by Arsene Kirillof (baritone)
at the theatre organ
Rookies' requests
A personal choice of records presented by Tom Dawson
played by Jack Frere and his Orchestra
Almost a revue
Written and composed by Ronnie Hill and Peter Dion-Titheradge with Edward Cooper , Diana Morrison , Hugh Morton , Luanne Shaw ,
Guy Verney
The Dance Orchestra directed by Billy Ternent
Produced by Reginald Smith
on gramophone records
Elisabeth Schumann (soprano)
A twice-weekly magazine programme for men of the Anti-Aircraft, Balloon
Barrage, and Searchlight units
Special ' Ack-Ack ' edition
Sports features, topical interviews, musical novelties, high spots from the news, stop press items and also recordings of a visit to an Ack-Ack
Battery
Chief reporter, Howard Thomas
Editor, Bill MacLurg
A programme of requests specially designed to unite listeners at home with their friends and relatives serving with the Forces in the Near East and presented by Sandy Mac pherson at the theatre organ
The fifth of a new series of revues by most of the old gang with Kenway and Young, Cyril Fletcher, Helen Clare, Clarence Wright, Revue Chorus and Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Sketches written by Douglas Young and Eric Barker
Presented by Leslie Bridgmont
Compere, Gerry Wilmot
with George Melachrino
Ten minutes of romance with Sigmund Romberg
Pupil of Tobias Matthay , Harold Craxton , and Benjamin Dale , Fred Hartley was for some time accompanist at the Royal Academy of Music. Thereafter he was pianist at a big West-End club, music director of a Stockholm theatre, and teacher of music at Dundee. From Dundee he gave his first broadcasts, though his radio fame dates from 1931, when he formed his Novelty Quintet.
Apart from being successor to
Brian Lawrance as Fred Hartley 's vocalist, George Melachrino often broadcasts with his own orchestra from the Cafe de Paris. He can play every instrument in his own orchestra bar the piano. He arranges his own music, sings in five languages, and speaks three fluently.
4-jenny Hill
(The vital spark)
Cast includes
Naomi Jacob , Bransby Williams ,
Fred Yule , Bertha Willmott
Script by Jonquil Antony
BBC Chorus and the Variety Orchestra .under the direction of Charles
Shadwell
Produced by Eric Fawcett
Script-writer Jonquil Antony , who always meant to go on the stage, got a job in the crowd of The Good Companions. She received 25s. a week and somehow managed to live on it during the twelve months' run of the show. She walked on in The Miracle and then went to Stratfordon-Avon for a season, playing in small parts. She was in the chorus of the Drury Lane pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk in which Binnie Hale climbed the beanstalk twice a day with the St. Christopher Medal sewn in her blouse to prevent her from falling! Jonquil met John Pudney and became a regular contributor to feature programmes.
A short article on Jenny Hill will be found on page 3.
