A cheerful selection of gramophone records *
Records of Art Tatum, the coloured swing pianist
Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records
Details of some of today's broadcasts
played by Jack Simpson and his Sextet
From Waltz to Conga
and his State Orchestra with Thorpe Bates
Presented by James Moody
Produced by James Dyrenforth
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)
and his Orchestra
Devised and conducted by Reginald
Burston, with The Norris Stanley Sextet
Commere, Joan Burman
Have your pencils and paper ready !
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte
played by Jack Dowie at the theatre organ
News commentary: where things are happening and what it's all about and ' Where Britain stands on guard'
5-Malaya: The Singapore naval and air bases : their importance to British territories around the Indian
Ocean
Employees of the G.W.R. take the stage
From a concert hall in the South
4.40 North-East and Central Scotland
C. R. Harvey
4.50 The West Country
on gramophone records
The BBC's own twice-weekly magazine, packed with special features, news, and entertainment, for men in Anti-Aircraft, Balloon Barrage, and Searchlight units
Today's edition includes both old and new favourites, stop press items, guest stars, interest features, contributions by men in Ack-Ack and Beer-Beer units, and the usual
-musical novelties
Editors, Bill MacLurg and Howard Thomas
followed by National and Regional announcements
from a theatre in the South
A programme of their songs, including numbers from the musical comedies The Girl Friend, On Your Toes, and Peggy Ann , and various films with Effie Atherton
Ronnie Hill
Sylvia Welling
BBC Theatre Chorus
Trained by Charles Groves
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Programme presented and conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
A new play for broadcasting by Malcolm Graeme
Cast : also: Club members, including a bishop, a general, three young stockbrokers, one or two nondescripts, a coroner, and two or three club servants
The action takes place in a club in St. James's, London, before the war
Produced by Peter Creswell
with some of the R.A.F. ' somewhere in England ' in a sing-song conducted by Leslie Woodgate
At the piano, Frederick Stone
A programme of music for modems, featuring
Jack Payne with his Orchestra
Compere, David Miller
A quarter-of-an-hour of music and reading, arranged by Christine Orr
(Second series-6)
A weekly gathering of famous folk
The regulars include:
Clay Keyes , master of ceremonies with' The court of melody', where tunes are on trial and the ear is the evidence
This week's famous visitor:
Beatrice Lillie and ' Can you beat the Band ? '
The Town Hall Orchestra, under the direction of Billy Ternent
Weekly meetings organised by Gladys and Clay Keyes and presented by Eric Spear
