: from swing to classics

Records of Ike Hatch

Recording of the London Coliseum Orchestra (conductor, Reginald Burston), broadcast in the Home Service at 10.30 a.m. on February 24

Today's choice of records is by Alec Robertson.

Programme for overseas of people and events in Britain, produced and narrated by John Fleming. (Recording of last Thursday's broadcast)

News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas

and his Orchestra, with Lynne Shaw , Irene King , and Paul Rich. .. (BBC recording)

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

with his Orchestra, and artists

on gramophone records

An entertainment for Forces overseas. Pat Taylor (now appearing in ' Irene ' at His Majesty's Theatre): Flying Officer Reginald Foresythe in 'Composer Cavalcade'; Doris Hare : the A.T.S. Girl Pipers: Orchestra (conductor, Eric Wild , R.C.N.) and Chorus of the Royal Canadian Navy show. ' Meet the Navy,' from the London Hippodrome, with John Pratt ; A. Cameron Grant. Billie Mae Richards , Dixie Dean Allen Bullen , and Jack Ringham ; BBC
Variety Orchestra: conductor, Charles Shadwell. Introduced by Margaret Lockwood. Produced by Cecil Mad den and Stephen Williams. From the stage of the Queensberry All-Services Club.

with Reg. Leopold and his Players

Close-ups from the war-fronts

Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas

with Uriel Porter and Fela Sowande at the theatre organ. Introduced by Sandy Macpherson

and his Band, with Edna Kaye and Renee Lester

"John Wynton (tenor); David McCallum -(violin); Nancy Evans (contralto)

and reports from the battlefronts

Conducted by Heathcote Statham. Sheila Collins (violin)

All the fun of the fair on the air with Robb Wilton , Max Wall. PoMy Ward, Jack Train , Harold Berens , Doris Nichols , Big Bill Campbell and his Rocky Mountaineers, and the Debroy Somers Orchestra. Guest stars, Irene Eisinger and Revnell and West.
• Written by Max Kester and produced by Pat Dixon. (BBC recording)

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

with Jack Cooper and the augmented Dance Orchestra, conducted by Stanley Black.

edited and read by Frederic Phelan
NEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND edited and read by Arthur Heighway

Ghost story by Richard Hearne. produced by Martyn C. Webster. (Repeat of yesterday's recorded broadcast) followed by News Headlines

Gramophone programme of requests from Forces overseas followed at 9.58 by News Headlines

(The Blues)
Conducted by Captain J. A. Thornburrow , Director of Music,
.Royal Horse Guards

Debroy Somers and his Band