Cheerful gramophone records
Programme summary
on gramophone records
Popular artists and bands on records
Mixed choice of records, including high spots from previous programmes
Elisabeth Welch
at the organ of the Granada, Tooting
played by the BBC Revue Orchestra : conductor, Mansel Thomas
Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra : conductor, William Pethers. From the New Hippodrome, Coventry
Dance-music by a Royal Air Force Station Dance Band (by permission of the Officer Commanding)
and the Continental Players
at the theatre organ
ENSA concert for war-workers, from a factory canteen. Oscar Rabin and his Band, with Harry Davis and Art Strauss , featuring Diane, Bobby Young , Alan Dean , and Terry Devon. Guest artist, Ronald Frankau
in a programme of light songs
Devised and produced by Leslie Bridgmont
Gramophone records of descriptive jazz by Raymond Scott and Syd Phillips. Written and presented by Leslie Rodgers
Eric Winstone and his Band
Directed by Albert Sandler , with Yvette Darnac and Georges
Non-stop record programme, featuring the rhythmic singing of Connie Boswell and the Mills Brothers. Arranged and presented by Gerald Belmont
and the Boy Friends
Presented by James Moody.
Men and women from Ack-Ack units in the Midlands, and workers from a factory engaged in making anti-aircraft guns, get together in the factory canteen for a joint programme, with music played for them by the military and dance bands from a Midlands balloon centre. The makers of guns and users of them both contribute to the show, with song, comedy, and interest items. Two teams, representing the factory and Ack-Ack, meet in a question bee, to be gonged by a Beer-Beer bandsman. Programme presented by the editor, Bill MacLurg
National and Regional announcements, and Scottish News summary
Weekly news-reel for Canadian Forces in Britain, and for all friends of the senior Dommion. The Royal Canadian Air Force in action, presented by Jack Peach ; Canada's Army and Navy at work in Britain ; the weekly ' calendar' of life in Canada ; Gerry Wilmot in English, and Eddy Baudry in French, present the weekly news bulletin. Produced by H. Rooney Pelletier , and presented in co-operation with the London office of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Twenty-second 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
with his Orchestra and artists
Solo horn, L.A.C. Sydney Coulston. Conductor, Maurice Johnstone
From an R.A.F. Centre in the North
The fighting spirit of Britain. ' The South Notts Hussars ', an eye-witness account of their gallant stand at Knightsbridge, Libya. Arranged and produced by Brigid Maas
Adjudication of the Finals in the amateur and semi-professional competition organised by ' The Melody Maker '. Introduced by Raymond Glendenning , from Wimbledon Town Hall
Presented by Sandy Macpherson at the theatre organ, with Esther Coleman and Denis O'Neil
Primo Scala's Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood.
(Recording of the broadcast on September 14)