to the Imperial and Allied Forces in Great Britain , followed by 'REVEILLE !'
Cheerful gramophone records
Records of Deanna Durbin
Popular records of December 1939
Mixed choice of records. High spots are the two best-sellers of 1941
Directed by Jack Hardy
Patricia Burke. At the piano,
Joan Bird
at the theatre organ
with Charles Shadwell and the BBC Variety Orchestra, Bettie Bucknelle , and the Four Clubmen. (Recording of last Thursday's broadcast) .
Harry Fryer and his Orchestra
Presented by Christopher Stone and S. P. B. Mais
and his Band, with Harry Davis , featuring Beryl Davis , Diane, Bob Dale , Jan Zalski (Polish tenor), and Eddie Palmer with his novachord
(piano)
Short story written for broadcasting by Martin Armstrong, and- read by the author
' They can't stop us singing', with Haydn Adams. Shape of things to hum': musical forecast featuring Gwen Jones. ' The adventures of Tommy Trouble', by E. Eynon Evans. ' Town topic ' : Dai's letter to the Forces. The Lyrian Singers, under the direction of Idloes Owen. Produced by Mai Jones
Second edition of the popular general-knowledge test, compiled by W. R. Mickelwright. Presented by Neil Munro , assisted by Kay Cavendish
The winners and the correct result of the Red Cross Radio Contest broadcast on December 13 and IS will be announced at the end of the game.
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
Jack Simpson and his Band
Weekly regimental concerts presented by soldiers of the Canadian Army Overseas stationed in Great Britain. Arranged and compered by Gerry Wilmot
Presented by James Moody
Johnny Rosen and his Band
Johnny Rosen and his Band are one of the North's star turns in light entertainment broadcasts. Johnny has gone rapidly ahead and has made for himself a radio position among the best dance bands in England. For fourteen years he was Jack Hylton 's first violinist. He has played everywhere : he went to the Continent over a dozen times with the hand : and on one European tour he and the boys coverel nearly 3,000 miles in three months —a pretty good record.
5-Music chosen by Louis Kentner , Raymond Newell , Derek Oldham , and Dr. Malcolm Sargent , with the reasons for their choice. Presented on gramophone records by Herbert C. Ridout
Twice-weekly radio magazine for men and girls in Anti-Aircraft and Balloon Barrage units. Entertainment, gossip, and interest features for and by you and your friends.
Today's edition includes the Ack-
Ack Concert Party, a group of entertainers from a Light Ack-Ack Regiment in the South-Eastern Counties. Editors, Bill MacLurg and Howard Thomas
National and Regional announcements
Tonight men of the R.A.F. 'have at their disposal the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Clarence Raybould. They choose the music to be played and discuss it with Alec Robertson
I-Drearitone Follies of 1942. Hollywood burlesque, with records devised and written by Roy Plomley , produced by Frederick Piffard
Musical march-past from December to January 1941 by Geraldo, his Concert Orchestra, Olive Groves, Mervyn Saunders , Roderick Jones , Dorothy Carless , Len Camber , Jackie Hunter , George Evans , David Davis , and the Geraldo Octet. Devised and produced by David Miller
Weekly magazine for the W.R.N.S., A.T.S., W.A.A.F. Contributions by Audrey Lucas , Jenny Nicholson , Robert MacDermot , and yourselves. Illustrations by Carroll Gibbons and his Band, with Leslie Douglas. Edited by Archie Campbell and Janet Quigley. Elizabeth Cowell comperes the programme
Wartime confessions of celebrities.
Forces' Forum. ' Brainteasers' Trust', with Roy Rich. Pamela Frankau. ' The canteen's open '
Private Smith entertains from a garrison theatre somewhere in Northern Ireland
Weekly summary of Canadian news, , high lights, and sports, cabled from Canada by the CBC National News Service, and read by Gerry Wilmot
Programme of gramophone records, presented -by Billy Mayerl
to the Imperial and Allied Forces in Great Britain , followed by VICTOR OLOF SEXTET
Operatic Memories
Victor Olof was born in London and is of Anglo-Swedish descent. From the age of nine he has played the violin. He became a student at the Guildhall School of Music, where he afterwards won the Merchant Taylor Scholarship. The founder of the popular sextet bearing his name has given many concerts in London, hut it was in Vienna that he made his debut, playing with very great success the Elgar Concerto.
