Gramophone records

and his Orchestra

Gramophone records

followed by News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas and Announcements

on records

Conductor, William Pethers.
From the Hippodrome Theatre, Coventry

with Margaret McArthur (contralto), Alfredo Campoli (violin), -and Stephen Manton (tenor). (BBC recording)

Stanley Holloway.

Scottish Variety Orchestra : conductor, Ronnie Munro

General Forces Programme summary

St. David's Day
' Guide me, 0 thou great Redeemet' (A.P.B. 37) ; Luke 10, vv. 21-24

John Blore and his Dance Orchestra, Harry Welchman , Olive Groves, Pat Frost , Violet Carson , Kathleen Moody. Introduced by Margaret Lockwood. From the stage of the Queensberry All-Services Club. This week's edition dedicated to the ' Iraq Times'.

Conductor, Guy Warrack

Choral and orchestral music in celebration of St. David's Day: the United Chapel Choirs of Aberdare, and the Welsh Light Orchestra, conducted by Arwel Hughes and Dan Edwards. News and greetings to the Forces. Programme introduced by A. Watkin Jones

for India Command. News, music, and requests from Torquay. Introduced by Jan Stewer. (BBC recording)

Marjorie Anderson replies to some of the letters sent to her by Forces overseas

and his Music, with Jack Cooper.

Close-ups from the world's battle-fronts

Records chosen by British Forces serving overseas. (NEWS HEADLINES AT 2.59)

Conductor, Captain T.S. Chandler, with David Lloyd (tenor), Tudor Evans (baritone), and the St. David's Singers

at the piano, with his Quintet

by Cyril Watling

General Forces Programme summary

Fantasia after Dante : Francesca da Rimini played by the. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent
Tchaikovsky's 'Francesca da Rimini ' was iketched out in Paris in the summer of 1876 and completed in November of than year. In the meantime Tchaikovsky had attended the memorable first Beyreuth Festival in August, and, in spite of his dislike of Wagner's music, a few echoes of Wagner teem to have crept into ' Francesca '. Perhaps that is the reason why he came to dislike the piece in later life.

_ Records chosen by British Forces serving overseas

Lilting music, melody, and song, with Maggie Teyte , Jan van der Gucht, and Ronald Chesney. Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves. Introduced by Lionel Gamlin

' The Tetrarch ' : the story of the famous race-horse the ' Spotted Wonder', as recalled by his trainer Atty Persse and 'his jockey Steve Donoghue in an interview with Frank More O'Ferrall.

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

his new Variety magazine for Forces overseas: assisted by Angela Wyndham-Lewis . This week's edition includes Fred Emney in ' The Sporting Life—Billiards ' ; ' Riddles contributed by Lt.-Commander R. T. Gould ; Cecil Trouncer , Judith Fellowes , and Carleton Hobbs ,in ' Not Likely ! ' ; ' Once Upon a Time ', with Gladys Young ; ' What We Can Do—about Industry'. Singers,Cherry Lind , Henry Wen -don, and Norman Allin , with the Male Voice Chorus, and augmented Revue Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves.

Classical music on records, including requests from Forces overseas

NEWS FROM HOME

cabled from the CBC News Room

Recording of today's broadcast at
1.1 p.m.

Troise and his Banjoliers. (BBC recording)