from swing to classics

Records of Betty Driver

Recording of the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (conductor, Rae Jenkins ). broadcast in the Home Service at 3.0 p.m. on January 4

Today's choice of records is by John Polwarth

No. 71 of a fortnightly programme from the countryside.

News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas

and his Orchestra, with Edna Kaye , Irene King. and Paul Rich. (BBC recording)

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

and his Sextet

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.

Gramophone records
Tabor (My Country) (Smetana):
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vaclav Talich
Serenade in E for strings (Dvordk):
Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conducted by Boyd Neel

An entertainment for Forces serving overseas: Vic Oliver, Carol Raye, Teddy Brown, Gaye and Nevard, Donald Peers, Renee Powell (by permission of Jack Hylton), Reg. Morgan in 'Composer Cavalcade,' with Gordon James and Jack Leon and his Orchestra. Introduced by Carol Raye. Produced by Cecil Madden and Stephen Williams. From the stage of the Queensberry All-Services Club.

Five-minute weekly news'etter (or Forces in South-East Asia Command

Special programme for American Forces overseas

speaking to Forces overseas

Close-ups from the war-fronts

Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas

with Dorothy Cariess , Monia Liter , and Charles Smart at the theatre organ. Introduced by Sandy Mac pherson

Music, song, and Variety from Northern Ireland, produced by James Mageean

Light music, arranged and played by Jack Byfield and his Players, with James Bell at the organ

and reports from the battlefronts

Conductor. Charles Groves

ENSA presents half-an-hour of songs and orchestral music: Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra, and vocalists: Olive Groves in ' Love Songs that have Lived ': Joan Young in ' Story in Song'; John Rorke in 'Memories of a Star': this week's ENSA star. Gabriglle Brune.

Followed at 8.10 by Home News from Canada cabled from the CBC News Rooms

In Anne to You.'

edited and read by Lieut. Frederic Phelan, A.I.F., and NEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND edited and read by Arthur Heighway

' The Case of the Dying Dutchman fourth of a weekly series of detective plays, specially written for broadcasting by Mileson Horton and produced by Leslie Stokes , with Clifford Cobbe as Inspector Cobbe.
' followed by , News Headlines

Gramophone programme of requests from Forces overseas
'Symphony No. 4, in G (Dvordk):
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vaclav Talich
Wedding March (A Midsummer
Night Dream: Mendelssohn): London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham followed at 9.58 by News Headlines

Conductor, Mr. H. C. Jarman

Jack Payne with his Orchestra