A cheerful selection of gramophone records
Records of Arthur Askey, radio's big-hearted little man
Jimmy Kennedy falls in for your entertainment on gramophone records
Arranged by Harold Baker
played by Victor Fleming Orchestra
A personal choice of records presented by Elizabeth Adair
No. 17-Tommy Trinder
The interviewer, Wilfred Pickles
Produced by Richard North
It is always good fun listening to Tommy Trinder , most precocious of comedians, who hands out laughs-and photographs. He specialises in singling out someone in the audience and being thoroughly rude to him. The victim, who enjoys it as much as anyone, seldom scores over this genius of repartee.
Tommy began by entertaining at working men's clubs for 7s. 6d. a night ; at nineteen he earned £ 15 a week as principal comedian in revue; at twenty-one he worked a single act throughout South Africa. Then for five years he did concert-party work round the seaside towns. Jack Hylton discovered him, and Tommy never looked back.
at the theatre organ
and his Band
A questionnaire for gardening enthusiasts and allotment holders, with additional digs by Lionel Gamlin
Produced by Pennethorne Hughes
with his Orchestra
Nautical moments
to records of Artie Shaw and his Orchestra
and his Tango Orchestra with Dorothy Carless
We meet Kay Cavendish and Helen Raymond in a programme arranged and compered by Kay Cavendish
Canadians in Britain speak to
Canadå-Canada replies
This broadcast, which the BBC presents in co-operation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, consists of half-an-hour of sing-songs by Canadian soldiers here, and half-an-hour of sing-songs from Canadian civilians there. The first part will also include messages from Lieut.-General A. G. L. McNaughton and other representatives of the Canadian Services here, as well as a civilian speaker, and the second part will, it is hoped, include a message from the Prime Minister of Canada.
A radio magazine with sport, news, interest, and entertainment for men in Anti-Aircraft, Balloon Barrage, and Searchlight units
Today's edition includes:
'What shall I be?' - a guide to post-war careers
Captain Cuttle's 'Sports Quiz'
'From Me to You' - Ack-Ack, Beer-Beer's Request Corner
Your own Christmas-card verses
'Your voice gives you away' - a dialect detection feature
Christmas greetings
WAAFS, WRNS, ATS, RAF, and Ack-Ack members come to the microphone to send greetings to their colleagues
Stop-press items, star visitors, and musical features
Editors, Bill MacLurg and Howard Thomas
A fortnightly summary of New Zealand news specially presented for
New Zealanders in this country
Conducted by Wing-Commander R. P. O'Donnell, M.V.O ., Director of Music, Royal Air Force
in ' Dandy's Christmas Party '
A cartoon invented by John Watt , written by C. Denier Warren and Ted Kavanagh , lyrics by James Dyrenforth , music by Henry Reed
Augmented Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Produced by Gordon Crier
A romantic musical play
and the Cuban Caballeros with Helen Clare
Presented by Hugh Shirreff
A weekly summary by the Canadian Press of Canadian news, specially presented for the Canadians in this country and read by Gerry Wilmot
(In collaboration with the CBC and the Canadian Press)
and his Orchestra
Sung by Helen Hill with a section of the. Dance Orchestra conducted by Billy Tement
Produced by Tom Ronald
Helen Hill made her first public appearance as a singer at a charity concert in her home town of Yarmouth, and her performance in one of these amateur concerts in later years led to her getting a job in concert party. It was while she was with a concert party that she met her husband, Frank Wilcock, who accompanies her at private concerts and even now coaches her with her singing. She first broadcast five years ago with the Two Leslies in ' Radio Pie', and since then has sung in all types of programmes. Her greatest ambition is to sing Mimi in La Bohème,
