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A record programme presented by Freddie Grisewood
Freddie Grisewood became a BBC announcer in 1929, changed to Outside Broadcasts in 1937, but since the war has gone back to announcing, though this time in the Overseas service. Home listeners still hear him every week as the friendly compere putting everyone at his ease in 'The World Goes By . Freddie was originally a singer and sang the bass solo part in Henschel's Requiem at Queens Hall in 1913. He created the radio character ' Our Bill ', based on the rustics of his native Cotswolds.

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Presented By:
Freddie Grisewood
Presented By:
Freddie Grisewood

Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe with Malcolm McEachem
Listeners' request programme
Malcolm McEachern (better known as Jetsam) began life on a ranch in Melbourne. After leaving school he changed his job continually until he discovered he had a three-octave voice. He took up singing as a career and toured the world as a concert artist, his first important appearance being at Queen's Hall, London.
After this he was invited to tour
Australia with Dame Nellie Melba. As ' Mr. Jetsam ' he teamed up with ' Mr. Flotsam' (B. C. Hilliam ) in London in 1926 when they renewed an acquaintance made some years before. Their act soon became popular, and in the following year they appeared at a Royal Command Performance at the Victoria Palace.
He recently made regular radio appearances in the Anglo-Australian Variety series ' Over and Up '.

Contributors

Leader:
Tate Gilder
Conducted By:
Harold Lowe
Unknown:
Malcolm McEachem
Unknown:
Malcolm McEachern
Unknown:
Dame Nellie Melba.
Unknown:
C. Hilliam

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