from swing to classics

Records of Eddie Lang

Recording of Melville Christie and his Dance Orchestra, broadcast in the Home Service at 4.30 p.m. on March 3

News Summary

on gramophone records
Overture: Prince Igor (Bwodin):
Halle Orchestra, conducted by Leslie Heward
Variations on a theme of Tchaikovsky (Arensky): Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conducted by Boyd Neel
Bridal March: (The Golden Cockerel) (Rimsky-Korsakov): San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux

on gramophone records

News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas

On gramophone records.

Half-an-hour of music chosen by a member of the Forces overseas: today's choice is by Radio Officer J. B. Sutherland , Merchant Navy

Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra: conductor. William Pethers

CBC Network programme originating in Vancouver, with Percy Harvey and the Golden Strings Orchestra, and songs by Anne Watt and Greg Miller , (CBC recording)

CBC Network programme, featuring popular tunes and cowboy songs, played by Cammie Howard and his Quintet, and sung by Oral Scheer . (CBC recording of a programme originating in Ottawa)

Records of classical music chosen by civilian and Forces listeners overseas

(Naval edition). A Home Forces entertainment for all in khaki and two shades of blue' serving afloat or overseas. The Blue Mariners Dance Band, directed by Petty Officer George Crow ; Service artists and guest stars, including Sub-Lieutenant
Eric Barker , R.N.V.R., and Pearl Hackney ; 'Double or Quits' quiz, conducted by Lieutenant Harold Warrender , R.N.V.R. Programme introduced by a guest from the W.R.N.S., and produced, in collaboration with the Personal Services Department of the Admiralty, by David Manderson.

with the Bachelor Girls, Peter Akis ter, and George Elliott. Directed by James Moody

Close-ups from the war-fronts

Repeat of last night's recorded broadcast

Conductor. Charles Groves

Mrs. Ferguson introduces a concert by the BBC Scottish Orchestra (conducted by Ian Whyte ), and a recorded visit to a Glasgow Youth Club with herself and James Sloan as guides. Produced by John Keir Cross

Novelty numbers and solo pieces played by the BBC Variety Orchestra (conductor, Charles Shadwell ), with Gene Crowley

and reports from the battlefronts

Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas

and the Dance Orchestra, with Rita Marlowe , Sid' Buckman, and the Prairie Boys

Weekly review of sporting topics past and present: George Allison. talking about ' Arsenal and the Cup,' recalls some of the achievements of the famous Highbury club; and Graham Walker , on motor-cycling. reminisces on the famous T.T. races

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

Weekly broadcasts from well-known Variety theatres.

This week, the Hippodrome, Birmingham, with Robb Wilton, Stanelli, and Jessie Matthews

featuring Mary Livingstone. Don Wilson , Rochester, Phil Harris and his Orchestra, and Jack Benny. (Recorded in America, and heard by arrangement with the American Forces Network) followed by News Headlines

Gramophone records of your favourite music, selected and introduced by Doris Arnold followed at 9.58 by News Headlines

and his Band, with Denny Dennis , Edna Kaye. and John Silver

Harry Fryer and his Orchestra. (Recording of a broadcast in the Home Service on March 3)