Records chosen by Forces overseas
from -swing to classics
Records of ' The Ink Spots '
Recording of the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (conductor. Rae Jenkins ), broadcast in the. Home Service at 4.30 p.m. on March 13
News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas o
On gramophone records.
and his Chamber Music Society of' Lower Basin Street Orchestra, with guest artists.
Today's choice of records is by Ivor Walsworth
Repeat of last night's recorded broadcast
Recorded in America, and heard by arrangement with the American Forces Network.
Music of the sunny South, played by the Southern Serenade Orchestra, directed by Reg. Leopold '
and his Orchestra, with Ruth Howard , Anita Best, and Bunny Burrows
Gramophone records
Overture: The Bartered Bride
(Smetana): London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter
Symphony No. 5. in E minor (From the New World); Slavonic Dance No. 3, in A flat (Dvordk): Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Georg Szell
An entertainment for Forces overseas: Anne Shelton , Derek Roy , the Buccaneers (naval quintet), Violet Carson , Alec Pleon , Janet Joye , Vernon Adcock , Frank Weir. and the BBC Revue Orchestra (conductor, Alan Crooks). Introduced by Margaretta Scott. Produced by Cecil Madden and Stephen Williams. From the stage of the Queensberry All-Services Club.
from the Leicester Band Festival. Recording of the winning bands of the ' Daily Herald 'Midland Area Championship, held yesterday at the de Montfort Hall, Leicester
sings some of the songs she sang last month to Forces in India and Burma. Accompanied by the BBC Revue Orchestra: conductor, Alan Crooks.
Close-ups from the war-fronts
Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas
with Sgt. Ted Hockridge. R.C.A.F. (baritone), and Mollie and Robinson Cleaver at the theatre organ and piano. Introduced by Sandy Mac pherson
Conductor, W. Haydn Bebb
Conductor, Guy Warrack ,
and reports from the battlefronts
Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas
3-' The Avenging Hour.'
'An 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 Moun'taineers, and the Debroy Somers Orchestra. Guest stars, Gaye and Nevard and Richard Murdoch. Written by Max Kester and produced by Pat Dixon. (BBC recording)
followed at 9.10 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
Half-hour programme of music chosen by a member of the Forces overseas. Today's choice is by A/B H. Everard , s.N.., Tunis
Reg. Pursglove and his Orchestra