Cheerful gramophone records

Half-an-hour of Hill-Billy music and song

Talk by Helen Burke

on gramophone records

at the organ of the Odeon, Leicester Square

Conductor, Ronnie Munro , with Nancy Jenkins and Alex Carmichael

Roland Powell and his Sextet and Gerry Fitzgerald. Produced by Richard North 6

Rhaglen o ddiddordeb i fechgyn a merched y Lluoedd Arfog. Y cyfarwyddo gan Myfanwy Howell. (Welsh light programme)
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Band of the Royal Dragoons : conductor, Mr. A. A. Singer

Conducted by Clarence Raybould

Count Basie and his Orchestra, Kinney's Hawaiian Ambassadors, and Joe Venuti and his Blue Four, on records

Lunch-time entertainment for factory workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain.

Today's Variety, on records

by Angus Macpherson
Pibrochs-the word is familiar enough, but how many listeners south of the Border Jcnow exactly what they are ? They are the highest form of bagpipe music and they are usually martial in character. They consist of variations on a theme, and demand unusual efficiency in the players. Frequently they are named after historical, characters and events, and some of them date hack hundreds of years. William Ross , who was piper to Queen Victoria, issued a collection of pibrochs in 1869, which still forms the basis of many a piper's repertoire.

Conductor, Mr. R. Lester

Novelty numbers and solo pieces played by' the BBC Variety Orchestra (conductor, Charles Shadwell ), with Gene Crowley

Primo Scala 's Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood

Conductor, Guy Warrack

From the Victoria Rooms, Bristol, with Ihga Andersen , McGregor and West, and Reginald Williams and his Band. Produced by Leslie Bridgmont

and her Girls Band

Kingsley Lark describes, with gramophone records, summer performances in the parks i

This is the day and time when the late John Hilton talked about those problems of men and women in the Forces and of their wives and relatives, which are discussed in this programme

followed by National and Regional announcements -

edited and read by Colin Wills

edited and- read by Arthur Heighway .

edited and read by Cyril Watling

at the theatre organ

Music for the million, featuring the stars who make the music. Script by Spike Hughes. Produced by Tawny Neilson . From the Hippodrome, Wolverhampton

BBC Midland Light Orchestra: conductor, Rae Jenkins

' Wooden Shoes' : a day in Warsaw, four years after the occupation of Poland. Written by Halina Tomaszewska and Rose Marie Hodgson

Twenty-eighth of a series which is the British cousin of a popular weekly feature in America. Artists include Elinore Farrell (of Forsythe, Seamon, and Farrell), Benny Lee ,
'Phil Green and his Basin Street Band, and his Rhythm on Reeds Orchestra. Produced and introduced by Jimmy Dyrenforth

The Gramophone Department entertains with ' Near Misses '; good tunes that never became popular, chosen by Roy Plomley. ' Great Composers and their Melodies', introduced by Joseph Lewis , and ' Black Magic ', in which Buddy Bradley tells about favourite coloured artists and their records. Script by Harry Alan Towers. Programme introduced by Patric Curwen , and edited by Frederick Piffard

BBC Midland Light Orchestra, conductor, Rae Jenkins.