Cheerful gramophone records

and his Octet

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

Scottish Variety Orchestra (conductor, Ronnie Munro ), with Janette Sclanders , Ann Rich , and Ian Gourlay

Sunday Service, conducted by the Rev. Frederic Greeves. From Wesley Memorial Church,
Oxford Jesu , lover of my soul (A.P.B. 53) Lesson Address Prayers
When I survey the wondrous Cross (A.P.B.
126, omit last verse)
Blessing
Organist, C. D. Parker

Introduced by Q. A. Husain. ' India Calling' : personal messages from India to the members of H.M. Forces in, Great Britain
Ghazals, Naats, and film and Punjabi songs
Adab Arz

Conductor, Harry Heyes

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

Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, Russ Morgan and his Orchestra, and the Orquesta Tipica Julio de Caro, on gramophone records

Fifteenth 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

in Variety. Today Frank Phillips gives his choice of a Variety bill on records

and his Orchestra, with Doreen Viziers , Ruth Howard , Len Camber ,
Derek Roy , and Johnny Green

Variety show by members of the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Sgt. Stan Shedden and the Canuck's Orchestra ; Cpl. Bill Smith ; L.A.C. Ted Hockridge ; Gunner Carl Asplund , and a fun department presided over by Cpl. Ernie Holden and Pte. Chick Zamick. Master of Ceremonies, Gerry Wilmot. Produced by the London office of the C.B.C.

Series of talks on some common misconceptions about Christianity. 2-' Just Benevolence', by the Rev. Laurens Sargent

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

Another record programme of contrasted arrangements, written by David Sheppard

(piano)

Members of the fighting Services, and of the Home Front who work behind them, come to the microphone with their choice of gramophone records. Introduced by Hamilton Kennedy

Jacques Hopkins sings and speaks about some favourite hymns

by Moore Raymond

.No. 29-' Anglo-American Small Town', written and produced by Marjorie Banks. Commentator, Burgess Meredith. Broadcast simultaneously in the Home Service and to the United States, in collaboration with the Columbia Broadcasting System of America
Somewhere in the Midlands is a little ' township ' which has only two streets, no cinema, and no railway station-but a war effort so vast that for security reasons even its county cannot be named. This programme tells the story of its invasion by thousands ot filling-factory girls from all over the country-Airmen from the U.S.A., women of the W.R.N.S., W.A.A.F., and A.T.S. and R.A.F. bomber crews. The commentator is the well-known American , film-star, Burgess Meredith , now serving in the United States Air Transport Command.

On the magic carpet of records you are taken on a visit to Latin
America: this week, Argentina. Your guide is Violeta Tschiffely. The cast includes Lesley Osmond and Peter Madden. Written by Jonquil Antony , and produced by Peter Eton

Review of the week's news

with George Betton , Percy Garside , Afrique, Eddie Leslie and Jean Adrienne , and Harry Korris as ' Mr. Lovejoy ', assisted by Cecil Frederick (' Ramsbottom ') and Robbie Vincent (' Enoch '). Happidrome Orchestra and Chorus. Show produced and conducted "by Ernest Longstaffe

at the theatre organ

Albert Sandler and the Palm Court Orchestra, with Raymond Newell (baritone), in a programme of- the kind of music heard in the Palm
Court of your favourite hotel in the days before the war. Programme produced by Fred Hartley and Douglas Lawrence

followed by a postscript

Theatreland's tribute to the Forces everywhere-a programme sponsored by every branch of the entertainment world and produced with the co-operation of the Theatres War Service Council
The programme, produced by Michael North , comes from a theatre in the heart of London and is transmitted throughout the world-wide network of the BBC

Hallowed be thy name (iii). Jesus where'er thy people meet (A. and M. 529) ; Genesis 28. vv. 10-22 ; Lo, God is here (A. and M. 526) ; Psalm 99, v. 9

Records of armchair music

Primo Scala 's - Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood