from swing to classics

Records of the Four Aces

Recording of Debroy Somers and his Band, broadcast in the Home Service at 10.30 a.m. on February 13

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

and his Mazurka Orchestra. (BBC recording)

News read at dictation speed for Forces Newspapers overseas

Today's choice of records is by Elsie Randolph

Eugene Pini playing popular light pieces written or transcribed for the violin

Repeat of last night's recorded broadcast

with his Orchestra, and artists

On gramophone records.

Carroll Gibbons

ENSA presents Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra and vocalists; Frederick Harvey in ' Love Songs that have Lived ' ; Betty Warren in ' Story in Song: Memories of a Star' (Carmen Miranda), featured by Magda Kun : this week's ENSA artist, Les Allen

in the A.E.F. Programme

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

Commentary by Raymond Glendenning during play in the first half of the Inter-Services match. From St. James's Park, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

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

Army v. R.A.F. Commentary by Raymond Glendenning during play in the second half of the Inter-Services match. From St. James's Park. Newcastle-upon-Tyne

News, music, and entertainment for officers and men of the Merchant Service, from their own Merchant Navy Club in London's West End. Hostess, Doris Hare. Music by Debroy Somers and his Orchestra. Regular features include ' Ship's Newspaper,' clubroom talks on Merchant Navy affairs, and guest artists. Produced by Alfred Dunning.

flashes between Britain and America. From London: Harry Hemsley , and Clive Richardson and Tony Lowry (Four Hands in Harmony), with 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.

and reports from the battlefronts

Overture: Othello
Heroic Song played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra: conductor, Guy Warrack

Jean Metcalfe replies to letters 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. Introduced by Peter Madden. Produced by Elisabeth Tyson

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

read at dictation speed

Edited version of this afternoon's commentaries by Raymond Glendenning

Weekly review of the music popular in Great Britain, the United States. and Canada, featuring the Brass Hats. the Singing Strings, the R.A.F. Dance Orchestra, and Beryl Davis. Produced by Pat Dixon. followed by News Headlines

drawn from the world's repertoire of theatre music
With Gwen Catley (soprano); Francis Russell (tenor), the BBC Theatre Chorus and the BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Lionel Salter
Programme includes items from ' A Princess of Kensington,' 'La Belle Helene,' 'Peer Gynt,' 'The Pride of the Regiment,' 'Swan Lake' ballet, and Ethel Smyth's ' Fete Galante' 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 entertain- . ers, and contributions from the Dominion specially recorded for this programme.

Band of the 2nd Battalion, the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment: conductor, Mr. J. B. H. Thorpe