to the Imperial and Allied Forces in Great Britain , followed by 'REVEILLE!'
Cheerful gramophone records

Programme summary

Records of Elisabeth Welch, 'the coloured nightingale'

five years ago
Popular records of April 1937

Records taken at random from the rack

at the theatre organ

Recording of last Saturday's broadcast

Band of the South Lancashire Regiment (by permission of the Officer
Commanding). Conducted by Mr. F. G. H. Irving

A study in annoyance, arranged with gramophone records by Ronald Hilbomp

at 'the organ of the Plaza Cinema, Swansea

and his Orchestra, with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber , George Evans , Derek Roy , and Three Boys and a Girl

Lunch-hour entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain

Sonata in F played by Denis Matthews (piano)
Denis Matthews is one of the most talented of tndav's younger musicians. He is only twenty-four years old, yet has been.broadcasting, recording, and appeanng at big concerts for years.
Matthews, who studied at Warwick
School as a youngster, won scholarships for piano and composition to the Royal
Academy of Music where, until two years ago, he studied with Harold Craxton and vimiam Alwyn. While at the Academy he won fourteen prizes and published several compositions. Some of these have been broadcast and also played at the National Gallery concerts.
Matthews joined the R.A.F. in 1940 and is now attached to the R.A.F. Orchestra, with whom he has played both at public concerts and for troop entertainments.

Conducted by William T. Matthews

and his Band

played by Dudley Hare 's Sextet and sung by Frank Gallagher (baritone)

Percival Mackey and his Orchestra

Records of Xavier Cugat , Don Marino Barreto , and Edmundo Ros

News and commentaries on the world at war : peoples and places in the fighting. Introduced by Macdonald Hastings

played by Billy Merrin and his Commanders, with Rita Williams

Short story written for broadcasting by Eric Moore Ritchie , and read by Grenfell Finn-Smith

'A Cable to the Sky': Special Balloon Barrage edition of the BBC's radio magazine for men and girls in Anti-Aircraft and Balloon Barrage units. All artists from the personnel of a South-Western Group of the Balloon Barrage. Presented by Squadron-Leader Kenneth Horne, assisted by Sergeant Bill Hall, under whose supervision the 'Balloonets' provide the music throughout the programme. Guest artist, John Dean (by permission of Rupert D'Oyly Carte). Produced by Hamilton Kennedy. General Editor, Bill MacLurg

National and Regional announcements

presents ' American Jam Session'. Recording of a broadcast by Joe Marsala and his Orchestra, made on January 8, 1938, at the Hickory House, New York City. Compere, Alistair Cooke

with Mervyn Saunders

Fred Hartley, renowned for his individual and pleasing arrangements of music, was born in Dundee. At the age of sixteen his father sent him to London and the RAM. While still a student he got a job as second pianist at the Kit-Cat Club at £16 a week. After accompanying Estelle Brodie up and down the country, he went to the Cirkus Theatre, Stockholm, to arrange the music and conduct the orchestra for what was a sort of pioneer of the modern Palladium show.

In 1931 he won fame with his Novelty Quintet, which for years was on the air once 'a week. In addition to his broadcasting for home consumption, Hartley does a great volume of work in the Overseas Service of the BBC.

Harry Parry, leader of the Radio Rhythm Club Sextet, discusses with Roy Plomley the eight records he would choose if he were condemned to spend the rest of his life on a desert island with a gramophone for his entertainment

' Man proposes ' : programme arranged by Geoffrey Dearmer

(' Rosie rounds 'em up'). Written by Charles Penrose. Produced by Ernest Longstaffe
The ' Pig and Whistle ' Orchestra

to the Imperial and Allied Forces in Great Britain , followed by 'HE WANTED ADVENTURE'
Romantic programme of gramophone records