from swing to classics

Records of Ethel Waters

Recording of Harry Leader and his Band. broadcast in the Home Service at 3:0 p.m. on December 20

Today's choice of records is by Phyllis Calvert

and his Players

and News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas

and his Orchestra. Dance music and songs, with Joan Edwards , Frank Sinatra , and the Chorus.

featuring Jack Collings

Repeat of last night's recorded broadcast

and his Band

On gramophone records.

Rawicz and Landauer in a programme of Russian music.

ENSA presents half-an-hour of songs and orchestral music with Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra and vocalists. Walter Midgeley in 'Love Songs That Have Lived'; Bill Stephens in 'Story in Song'; Paula Green in 'Memories of a Star'; this week's ENSA star, Binnie Hale.

conducted by Major Glenn Miller.

Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas

Review of news and events of special interest for Forces in India

Close-ups from the war-fronts of the world

(balalaika), accofnpanied by Geoffrey Sisley (guitar)

Recorded in America and heard by arrangement with the American Forces Network

Huddersfield v. Bradford Northern. Commentary by Harry Sunderland during the second half of the match. From Fartown. Huddersfield

Half-an-hour of news, music, and entertainment for officers and men of the Merchant Service, from their own Merchant Navy Club in London's West End. Doris Hare is hostess, with Debroy Somers and his Orchestra, -and a guest star. Regular features include ' Ship's Newspaper,' ' In the Clubroom,' and ' Good Old London.' Programme produced by Alfred Dunning.

First anniversary of Atlantic Spotlight with an all-star cast of famous artists on both sides of the Atlantic. Leslie Mitchell as Master of Ceremonies in London, and Ben Grauer in New York. Produced in New York by Ross Filion, and in London by Jimmy Dyrenforth and Tom Ronald.

followed by reports from the battiefronts

Conductor, Guy Warrack

Joan Griffiths replies to letters she has received from Forces overseas, and plays her favourite records

Louis Levy and his Gaumont-British Studio Orchestra, with Beryl Davis , Benny Lee , Jack Cooper , and the Georgettes, including ' The Screen Presents,' bringing famous film stars to the microphone, introduced by Moore Raymond. Produced by Elisabeth Tyson

followed at 8.10fby
Home News from Canada cabled from the CBC News Rooms

read at dictation speed

Edited version of this afternoon's commentary by Harry Sunderland

(and their fellow-travellers). Trip No. 6, on which they meet Jeanne de Casalis and Parry Jones. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Alan Crooks. Produced by Michael North.
followed by News Headlines

Programme drawn from the world's repertoire of theatre music, with Irene Eisinger (soprano), Reginald Gibbs (baritone), and the BBC Theatre Chorus and BBC Theatre Orchestra: conductor, Stanford Robinson
Followed at 9.58 by News Headlines

with music by Capt. Robert Farnon and the Canadian Band of the A.E.F. Songs by Canadian Forces entertainers, and contributions from the Dominions specially recorded for this programme

Band of the Royal Dragoons: conductor, Mr. A. A. Singer