Cheerful gramophone records

Programme summary

Benny Carter and his Orchestra

Deanna Durbin, on records

Programme Parade

'The Housewife's Tool-Box', by Ian McCall

Gramophone mixture of film music, introduced by Lilian Duff

at the organ of the Granada, Tooting

Conductor, Rae. Jenkins

Debroy Somers and his Band

Symphony No. 1, in A flat played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer. (Gramophone records)

and his Apache Band, with Amalia Magri and Jacques Vallez

Gramophone records of ... Overture .Calm Sea apd Prosperous
Voyage (Mendelssohn) : London Symphony Orchestra
Rapsodia sinfonica (Turina) : Eileen Joyce
(piano), with Orchestra conducted by Clarence Raybould
Scherzo capriccioso, Op. 66 (Dvorak) :
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy

and her Girls Band

with Gaby Valle

Melville Christie and his Dance Orchestra

For voice and piano. (Gramophone records) *
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Sheffield Wednesday v. Chesterfield. Commentary during the second half of the match by Tom Cragg , from the Wednesday Ground, Sheffield

Artie Shaw and Jimmy Dorsey , on records at 5.0

Conductor, Denman Leeman

Flashes between Britain and America. In London the programme is introduced by Anna Neagle , with Flanagan and Allen, and the National Fire Service Dance Orchestra, conducted by Eddie . Franklin New York's contribution includes the Army Air Force Band, conducted by Captain Glenn Miller
The programme, a joint venture of the BBC and the N.B.C., is heard simultaneously in both countries. Produced in New York ,by Joe Mans field, and in London by James Dyrenforth and Tom Ronald

National and Regional announcements and Northern Ireland News

(Birthday edition). The Merchant Navy's own programme is two years old today. In this edition, recorded at the Merchant Navy Club, London, which came into being a.,s a direct result of this weekly series, the shipping industry reviews the better conditions obtained for officers and men during the programme's history. Doris Hare is hostess, with Debroy Somers and his Orchestra, and the programme is produced by Reita Hendry and Howard Thomas

A province-by-province bulletin for Canadian Forces stationed in Great Britain, read by Gerry Wilmot

New Year's Day edition, featuring Billy Cotton and his Band, with guest star, and a special edition of ' Amateur Talent Corner'
A link-up round the British Isles of entertainment by Cadets of the Air Training Corps, broadcasting from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
Programme also includes W. W. Wakefield , M.P., Director of the A.T.C., and. the recorded voices of Air Marshal Bishop, V.C. (from Canada), Lieutenant General Sir Pier Van Ryneveld (from South Africa), Wing Commander Caldwell, D.S.O. (from Australia), and Wing Commander Nicholls, Commandant of the A.T.C. (from New Zealand), sending greetings to the Air Training Corps in Great Britain. Produced by Joan Clark

sung by Henry Cummings

(Portsmouth Division)
Conducted by Capt. F. Vivian Dunn , M.V.O., Director of Music, Royal Marines
Regimental March of H.M. Royal Marines :
A Life on the Ocean Wave

with his Orchestra

' Bold Excursion ', a secret mission carried out by two officers of the U.S. Army; who went to Rome to confer with Marshal Badoglio , and so prepared the way for the present campaign in Italy. Written by Merrill Denison . Produced by Roy Lockwood. (Specially recorded by the BBC in New York)

with Trefor Jones , Carmen del Rio , and Rawicz and Landauer, BBC Revue Chorus, the augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves. Programme introduced by Lionel Gamlin. Produced by Henry Reed

at the theatre organ

Primo Scala and his Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood