Cheerful gramophone records

Conducted by B. Walton O'Donnell. (Gramophone records)

two years ago
Popular records of August 1940

Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Isobel Baillie singing ' With verdure clad '. from Haydn's ' Creation '

with Olive Groves

at the organ of the Granada, Harrow

Conductor, Charles Shadwell , with Tom Lynch (tenor)

Harry Fryer and his Orchestra. From the Tudor Restaurant, Kingston-on-Thames

More Sussex locals choose their favourite records. Written and presented by Peter Eton. Produced by Raymond Raikes

at the organ of the Granada, Clapham Junction

with his Quartet

with his Orchestra and artists

Directed by Jack Hardy

Conducted by Dr. J. A. G. Mantz

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

Conducted by Julius Harrison. Laurance Turner (violin)

The N.F.S. Dance Band of No. 9 Region. Directed by Vernon Adcock , with Mary Morton and Philip Garston-Jones

Kay Cavendish , Helen Raymond , Pat Rignold

Entertainment from a Balloon Centre in the South-West. The Station band and choir, with solo artists. Produced by Hamilton Kennedy. The programme also includes news items, guest artists, and special features for the two Commands. Presented by Alfred Dunning. Editor, Bill McLurg

National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary

Weekly summary of Australian news specially presented for Australians in this country, and read by Colin Wills

Week's news from Home for New Zealanders in this country, read by a New Zealander

The week's news especially for South Africans in this country and for all interested in the events in the Union, read by Cyril Watling

Seventeenth of the series, organised by the Radio Section of the War Department in Washington for the entertainment of members of the United States Forces serving overseas. Recorded in the United States and edited for reproduction in this country by Basil Adams

Special concert given by men of the Royal Netherlands Brigade, Princess Irene', to celebrate the birthday of their Queen. From a garrison theatre somewhere in the Midlands

Dramatised account of two days at sea in a minesweeper. Written and produced by Maurice Brown

and his Band, with Pat MacCormack , Bette Roberts , Don Rivers , Harry Kaye , Maureen, and the Loss Chords
Strictly adhering to the principle that dance music, even for broadcasting, should be played in strict dance tempo, Toe Loss has got together, and run for many years, one of the most successful dance combinations in the country. From 1935 to 1940 he played at the Astoria Dance Salon, London, which he left over eighteen months ago to take his band on tour.
During this time he has travelled all over the country, playing not only in theatres and music-halls, but also for dancing in many of the large halls that are now enjoying their greatest boom since the middle nineteen-twenties.
Loss was actually destined for a career in the world of serious music. At the age of 13 he had won a scholarship to Trinity College and studied there for the next three years. Then suddenly he rebelled, and in doing so became the youngest dance-band leader in the country, and the founder of an orchestra that is u popular today as it was eight years ago.

The fighting spirit of Britain. Dramatic presentation of the British peopb at war, past and present. 'The Highland Division', compiled from a record of the 51st Division in France, 1940. Written by Eric Link -later for the ' Army at War' series. Arranged and produced by Brigid Maas

Conductor, Major Eric Ball

Led by Albert Sandier , with Eugenie Safonova

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra. (Special recording)