from swing to classics
Records of Kitty Masters
Recording of Jan Berenska and his Orchestra, with Jack Wilson (piano), broadcast at 10.30 a.m. on February 28
News summary
Today's choice of records is by Harry Williamson
Fortnightly programme from the countryside
Introduced by A.G. Street. Music arranged by Francis Collinson. Programme edited by Francis Dillon and produced by Rosemary Colley.
(Recording of the broadcast in the Home Service on March 11)
News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas
Directed by Art Strauas. (BBC recording)
Recorded in America, and heard by arrangement with the American Forces Network.
Conducted by Michael Krein
and her Girls Band
On gramophone records.
Conductor, Charles Groves
An entertainment for Forces over-sea: Ken Harvey
: Tessie O'Shea :
Betty Huntley-Wright : Lyle Evans ; Hat Monty; Muriel Watson in ' Composer Cavalcade ' : Jack Payne 's Orchestra, conducted by Stanley Andrews , with Betty Webb and Jane Lee. Introduced by Michele de Lys Produced by Cecil Madden and Stephen Williams. From the stage of the Queensberry All-Services Club.
and his Players
Close-ups from the war-fronts
Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas
with Jan Berenska , Victor Newbury. and Felton Rapley at the organ of the Gaumont Cinema, Birmingham.
Introduced by Sandy Macpherson
Music and song. Variety and news from Northern Ireland, introduced by Fraser Mayne , including David Curry and his Orchestra, with Eddie Pearl at the piano. Gerald Mathews (tenor). and a winning choir from the Belfast Musical Festival. Produced by James Mageean
and his Band. with Denny Dennis. Edna Kaye. and John Silver
and reports from the battlefronts
Conductor. Guy Warrack
'All the fun of the fair on the air ' with Robb Wilton , Max Wall , Polly Ward , Jack Train , Harold Berens , Doris Nichols , Big Bill Campbell and his Rocky Mountaineers, and the Debroy Somers Orchestra. Guest stars, Jewel and Warriss. Written by Max Kester and produced by Pat Dixon.
followed at 8.10 by Home News from Canada cabled from the CBC News Rooms
edited and read by Frederic Phelan
NEWS FROM NEW ZEALAND edited and read by Arthur Heighway
1—'The Case of the Headless Lady.' followed by News Headlines
Gramophone programme of requests from Forces overseas followed at 9.58 by News Headlines
Conducted by Captain F. J. Harris , Director of Music, Grenadier Guards
Percival Mackey and his Orchestra