Cheerful gramophone records

Programme summary

Records of a popular composer: Ellington

one year ago
Popular records of August 1941

Recording of last Friday's broadcast

Programme Parade
Interlude : records

Scottish Variety Orchestra (conductor, Ronnie Munro ), with Jae Fraser , Ann Rich , and Ian Gourlay

Conductor, J. J. Stobbs

Presented by Damyanti Sahni. ' India Calling' : personal messages from India to the members of H.M. Forces in Great Britain

from St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. Conducted by Canon S.E. Swann

First of a series of Hawaiian guitar record programmes, written and arranged by A. P. Sharpe

Special BBC recording of the programme broadcast direct to North America during the midnight break last Wednesday from a factory somewhere in Britain.

and his Orchestra, with Beryl Davis , Georgina, Len Camber , George Evans , Derek Roy , the Singing Sweethearts, Three Boys and a Girl

(New series, No. 10), with Mary Livingstone , Don Wilson , Dennis Day , Rochester, Phil Harris with his Orchestra, and Jack Benny. Specially recorded in the United States, and edited for reproduction in this country by Basil Adams and David Miller

Recording of last night's broadcast

Billy Milton , assisted by his man-servant Fred Yule , whiles away the time until she arrives. Devised by Ernest Dudley , and written by him in collaboration with Clifford Lewis. Presented by Eric Spear. (Special

Weekly entertainment presented by the Canadian Forces from a Palais de Danse in the South of England. High lights are the songs of L.A.C. Ted Hockridge , Private Bill Smith , and the Smoothies, with the music of Sergeant Stan Sheddon and the Canucks Orchestra, and the Rhythm Ranch Boys. ' Services Spotlight '. This week's guest star, Sandy Powell
Produced and introduced by Gerry Wilmot

A way of dealing with young soldiers who get into trouble. Talk by Major Geoffrey H. Gilbey , M.C., Commandant of the First Young Soldiers' Training Unit

Billy Tement and the Dance Orchestra

Brass band music by the Fairey Aviation Works Band, presented and conducted by Denis Wright

A holiday at. home with your gramophone. Gramosaic produced by Frederick Piffard

Short story for broadcasting, by Dora Broome , read by Mary Eastwood

' Swing and Sway in Music'. Eric Winstone and his Swing Quartet v. Roland Peachey and his Hawaiians. Presented by David Miller

and Cortot (piano), on gramophone
- records
Conducted by Antal Dorati : OveVture :
Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)
Conducted by Sir Landon Ronald : Solo piano, Cortot : Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra (Cesar Franck )
Conducted by William Walton : Siesta
(Walton)

Interlude: records

Written by Russell Medcraft , with Marion Dawson , Bill Stephens ,
Percy Garside , Charles Penrose , Foster Carlin , Dorothy Ward , Murray and Mooney, Randolph Sutton , and Albert Modley as ' Oswald '. Revue Chorus and BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas. Devised, produced, and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe

Review of the week's news

C. A. Lejeune

Joint broadcast with the Lutheran Laymen's League of St. Louis, Missouri. The speaker in America is the Rev. Dr. Walter A. Maier ; the singing is accompanied at the organ by Dr. E. Rechlim. On this side the short address is given by the Bishop of Chichester, and the BBC Singers, under Dr. Thalben-Ball, sing ' All people that on earth do dwell' and ' Jerusalem '

Tribute to the week's outstanding worker on the war front. Produced by Marjorie Banks

Public concert by Stanford Robinson and the BBC Theatre Orchestra, with the BBC Theatre Chorus. Ida Haendel (violin), and Heddle Nash (tenor). From a Southern town

followed by a postscript

Charles Dorning, the musical man in the street, is the centrepiece of another programme of vigorous music, with Debroy Somers and his Citizens Orchestra, and the St. David's Singers. Also 'Joe Citizen', an ordinary listener celebrating a milestone in his life. Presented by Howard Thomas

The fruit of the Spirit is temperance. Fight the good fight ; Galatians 5, w. 1, 13-25 ; Soldiers who are Christ's below I Corinthians 9, vv. 24 and 25

at the theatre organ, in a programme of tunes from the talkies

Debroy Somers and his Band. (Recording of the broadcast on July 12)