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and his Dance Band
Roland Powell is a microphone figure of many years' standing. He controls a great many bands, which include Roland Powell 's Rhythm Aces, the Roland Powell Quintet, the Roland Powell Variety Orchestra, and the Roland Powell Octet, which he formed last July.
For fourteen years Powell held the post of Musical Director to L.M.S. Hotels, England and Scotland, in which capacity he worked jointly with Henry Hall for a number of years.

Contributors

Unknown:
Roland Powell
Unknown:
Roland Powell
Unknown:
Henry Hall

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and his Dance Orchestra
Mantovani, who is English in spite of his Italian name, has been broadcasting for many years now. At eighteen years of age he was leader of the Salon Orchestra at the Metropole Hotel, London, and broadcast from there for six years. He left the Metropole to form his own band at the Monseigneur Restaurant, Piccadilly, and it was thus that his Tipica Orchestra came into being. He so called it because whatever the nationality of the music played, it always sounded typical of the country of its origin.

The special twice-weekly radio magazine, packed with interest, news, and entertainment for and by the personnel of Anti-Aircraft and Balloon Barrage units
Your colleagues come to the microphone or send their stories, verses and songs, to entertain you
Old and new features, guest stars, stop-press items and musical novelties
Editors, Bill MacLurg and Howard Thomas
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Contributors

Editors:
Bill MacLurg
Editors:
Howard Thomas

presents
Harry Parry and his Radio Rhythm
Club Sextet
In Charles Chilton 's absence as an aircraftman in the Royal Air Force the Radio Rhythm Club is being run by the club's Sextet leader clarinettist Harry Parry. Harry composed its signature tune, ' Champagne ', and listeners heard one of his most popular works-' Parry Opus '-in the first broadcast by the Sextet early last summer. He has played with nearly every dance band in the country, and he was with the St. Regis Quintet until they were closed down owing to enemy action. He, too, is serving his country in making munitions.

Contributors

Unknown:
Harry Parry
Unknown:
Charles Chilton
Clarinettist:
Harry Parry.

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This data is drawn from the Radio Times magazine between 1923 and 2009. It shows what was scheduled to be broadcast, meaning it was subject to change and may not be accurate. More