from swing to classics

Records of Louis Armstrong

Recording of Debroy Somers and his Band. broadcast at 10.30 p.m. on February 26

News Summary

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

News read af dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas

Today's choice of records is by Dame Lilian Braithwaite
(by permission of Firth Shephard)

featuring Jack Collings

on gramophone records
Holberg Suite (Grieg): London
String Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr
St. Paul's Suite (Holst): Jacques
String Orchestra, conducted by Reginald Jacques

with his Orchestra, and artists

ENSA presents Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra and vocalists; Gwen Catley in ' Love Songs that have Lived'; Bill Stephens in Story in Song ' ; ' 'Memories of a Star ' (Melville Gideon), featured by Reginald Pur dell; this week's ENSA artist. Beryl Orde.

Repeat of last Saturday's recorded broadcast in the Home Service, with the Yale Brothers. Peggy Cochrane , Jack Warner , the Vincent Raff Trio with Molly Brown , and Sandy Powell. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Announcer. Norman Wooland. Producer, John Sharman

Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas

speaking to Forces overseas

Close-ups from the war-fronts

with Reg. Leopold and his Players

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

League (North) Cup. Commentary by Ivan Sharpe during the second half of one of the first round matches in the competition proper

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, Nat Gonella 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. (Joint BBC and NBC programme, heard simultaneously in bpth countries)

and reports from the battlefronts

Conducted by Clarence Raybould

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

Association Football. League (North) Cup. Edited version of this afternoon's commentary by Ivan Sharpe

Weekly eview of the music popular in Great Britain, the United States. and Cant da, featuring the Brass Hats. the Sinking 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 Victoria Sladen (by permission of the Administrator of Sadler's Wells), and Jan van der Gucht, with the BBC Theatre Orchestra. Programme arranged and conducted by Lionel Salter
Programme includes items from Ethel Smyth 's 'Entente Cordiale,' ' Katja the Dancer, ' ' A Southern Maid,' ' Monsieur Beaucaire ,' ' The Duenna.' and ' Checkmate ' ballet 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 entertainers, and contributions from the Dominion specially recorded for this programme.

Band of the East Surrey Regiment: conductor, Mr. C. F. Harriott