Cheerful gramophone records

Popular artists and bands on records

for the Middle East Forces. Messages recorded by members of the Services in Egypt for their relatives and friends in Great Britain, arranged by Peter Haddon

Programme Parade

Scottish Variety Orchestra (conductor, Ronnie Munro ), with Jae Fraser , Ann Rich , and Ian Gourlay 0

Sunday Service from St. Peter's, Harrow, conducted by the Vicar, the Rev. G. L. Russell
0 God, our help (A.P.B. 84 ; A. and M.
165, omitting v. 5)
Prayers
Lesson : St. Matthew 13, vv. 24-30 Address
Intercessions .
God moves in a mysterious way (A.P.B.
36 ; A. and M. 373)
Blessing
Organist, Harold E. West

Presented by Balraj Sahni. 'India Calling' : personal messages from India to the members of H.M. Forces in Great Britain
Qawwali N'aat
Punjabi songs
Hindustani Ghazals Saaz
Film songs
Adab arz

Conductor, Fred Mortimer

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

and his Orchestra, with Beryl Davis , Len Camber , Derek Roy , Doreen Villiers , Johnnie Green , the Singing Sweethearts, Three Boys and a Girl

Second of these programmes featuring Portland Hoffa, Al Goodman with his Orchestra and Fred Allen. Recorded in America by arrangement with .the Special Service Division of the War Department of the United States of America

and the Twentieth - Century Serenaders

Variety show presented by members of the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Sgt. Stan Shedden and the Canuck's Orchestra ; Pte. Bill Smith ; L.A.C. Ted Hockridge ; Pte. Norm Harper ; Ptes. Wally Brennan and Ronnie White. Gerry Wilmot is Master of Ceremonies. Presented by the London office of the C.B.C.

... about Prayer' : fourth of a series of five talks by the Rev. A. W. Hopkins , R.A.F.

Primo Scala 's Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood

for members of H.M. and Allied Forces, given by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (conductor, Rae Jenkins ), with Tom Bromley (piano), Arthur Servent (tenor) (by arrangement with Sadler's Wells Opera Company)

with spontaneous answers to ' Any Questions ? '. Six men with expert knowledge of the Empire deal with listeners' questions from and about the Empire. In residence, Dr. Malcolm Sargent and Dr. Julian Huxley. Guests, Lord Hailey, Professor R. Coupland, and Leary N. Constantine. Question -Master,.
Donald McCullough. Producer, Howard Thomas.

Gramophone records chosen and presented by members of the fighting Services and of the home front who work behind them. Arranged and introduced by Hamilton Kennedy

from a hostel for war-time workers in the Midlands. Conducted by Dr. W. K. Stanton

by C. A. Lejeune

Patric Curwen goes back through the pages to recall some of the music from the recent Empire series of ' Everybody's Scrapbook '. Presented by Leslie Baily and Francis Worsley. Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Mansel Thomas

with Foster and Norman, Dorothy Parfitt and Esme Webb , Terry Wilson , Hal Monty , and Harry Korris as ' Mr. Lovejoy ', assisted by Cecil Frederick (' Ramsbottom ') and Robbie Vincent (' Enoch '). Happidrome Orchestra and Chorus. Devised, produced, and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe

at the theatre organ

Summer Season, 1943. Special visit for one night only of Harry Fryer and his Orchestra. Soloist, Bettie Bucknelle. Presented by Fred Hartley and Douglas Lawrence
If in these days of Holidays at Home you get no chance to visit the Pier Pavilion on Sunday evenings, let the Pier Pavilion come to you! Here is the first of a series of popular concerts by favourite light orchestras and soloists.

followed by a postscript

Theatreland's tribute to the Forces everywhere : a programme sponsored by every branch of the entertainment world and organised by the Theatre's War Service Council
This week : NAUNTION WAYNE,
Tessie O'SHEA , LILLI PALMER , REX Harrison , Tommy HANDLEY and JACK TRAIN, PAT KIRKWOOD , LEIGH STAFFORD , and The MASTERSINGERS from the London production of ' Let's FACE IT '. Orchestra conducted by BILLY TERNENT
The programme, produced by Ronald Waldman , comes from a theatre in the heart of London, and is transmitted throughout the worldwide network of the BBC

Review of the week's news

South American music, on records

Melville Christie and his Dance Orchestra