Cheerful gramophone records

Programme summary

Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra (recording)

Cavan O'Connor, on records

Programme Parade

'Hints on Patching', by Louise Martin

Record programme of 'Tunes of the Twenties', written and arranged by Roy Plomley

at the organ of the Odeon Theatre, Llandudno

The Trumpet Call...Fucik
Fascination...Marchetti
Selection: Something in the Air...Sherwin
On the Dnieper...arr. Charrosin
In the blue of evening...D'Artega
Shantyana...arr. Charrosin
Songs to Remember...arr. Harold Collins
Selection: Panama Hattie...Cole Porter
Over here and over there...arr. Baynton Power

Reg Pursglove and his Orchestra

and his Orchestra

Gramophone records of...

Trojan March (Les Troyens: Berlioz): Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris, conducted by Felix Weingartner
Piano Concerto No. 2, in A (Liszt): Emil Sauer, with the Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris, conducted by Felix Weingartner

Pipe-Major William Taylor, who served in India, and trained many Indians in piping, talks about Indian pipers with Moultrie R. Kelsall. Pipe-Major William Ross has recorded some tunes

Conductor, W.C. Croszier

Selection: Waltzes from Vienna...Strauss
Fantasia: Festivalia...Aubrey Winter
Simple aveu (Euphonium soloist, W. Rycroft)...Thome
Selection: The Vagabond King...Friml

(See Home Service)

Variety, on records

BBC Variety Orchestra : conductor, Charles Shadwell

with Joy Conway and Connie O'Neil.
From Green's Playhouse, Glasgow

Commentary by Raymond Glendenning during the second half of the League South Match. From White Hart Lane, London

Conducted by Joseph Lewis, with Roy Hickman (bass-baritone)

March: Beaufighters...Maurice Johnstone
Two Intermezzos:
Winter Reverie...Denys Grayson
St. James's Park in Spring...Haydn Wood
Songs: Sea Fever; Hope the Hornblower...Ireland
Gavotte (The Rebel Maid)...Montague Phillips
Children's Intermezzo (Suite: Othello)...Coleridge-Taylor
Folies-Bergere..Percy Fletcher
Songs:
The Twa Sisters of Binnorie...arr. Somervell
A Wooing Song of a Yeoman of Kent's Son...Woodgate
The Little Shoe-Shop (Suite: High Street)...Geoffrey Henman
Waltz: Evening in Town (Suite: Meadow to Mayfair)...Eric Coates

in New York and London

A welcome for merchant seamen on both sides of the Atlantic arranged by the BBC at the Merchant Navy Club, London, and Station WNEW, New York City, at the Seamen's Institute, New York.
The Merchant Service's own show, broadcast throughout the British Empire and in the United States.

From New York: Hostess, Paula Stone; Broadway and Hollywood stars: Helena Pickard (Lady Hardwicke), Roland Young, Joan Roberts, star of musical
'Oklahoma', Merle Pitt and his Five Shades of Blue Band.

From London: Hostess, Doris Hare; Debroy Somers and his Orchestra, featuring 'Tunes of London Town' and 'Music from Home - North Country'; 'Ship's Newspaper'; a U.S. seaman broadcasting home, and Vera Lynn.
(BBC recording)

National and Regional announcements

Tommy Handley presents his monthly problem, this time with Ted Kavanagh. Also providing specially recorded problems for this contest are C. Aubrey Smith, Felix Aylmer, Hermione Gingold (by permission of J.W. Pemberton and A.A. Dubens), Norman Long, Henry Bronkhurst, Nat Allen and his Sextet.

Programme introduced by Lionel Gamlin, and produced by Audrey Cameron, in aid of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund. The entire entry fees are devoted to the Fund.
The last day for posting your entries is Thursday, November 18, and the address is: £250 Red Cross Radio Contest, London, W.C.2.
The results of this contest will be announced after the 6 o'clock news bulletin on Sunday, December 5, and also in the Radio Times published on December 10.

Conductor, G. Morse

Hullabaloo Balay (Soloist, Francis Crane)...arr. Ralph Greaver
Blow the man down (Soloist, Francis Crane)...arr. Terry
The Old Woman...Roberton
The Angler's Song...Lawes-Dunhill
When for the world's repose...Mornington
Here's to the best of us...Thayer

Lilting music, melody, and song for everybody, with Ruth Naylor, Dennis Noble, and BBC Revue Chorus.
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves.
Introduced by Lionel Gamlin.

Twenty minutes of soothing music, played by Reginald King with his Quintet

with his Orchestra

The fighting spirit of the United Nations. Dramatic presentation of the free peoples of the world at war.
'Bring 'em Back Alive': how aircraft of the American Air Force carried out rescue work on the Burma front.

Music of the sunny South, played by the Southern Serenade Orchestra, directed by Reg Leopold. Programme produced by Fred Hartley.

Lover, come back to me...Romberg
Fascination...Marchetti
The Flight of the Bumble-Bee...Rimsky-Korsakov
Trees...Rasbach
Czardas...Caludi

on records

Band of the 24th Regiment, South Wales Borderers: conductor, Mr. S.V. Hays.

(Recording of the broadcast on Saturday, October 23)