Records chosen by Forces overseas
from swing to classics
Records of Gloria Jean
Recording of Sidney Davey and his Players broadcast in the Home Service at 4.30 p.m. on April 3
News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas
on gramophone records
and his Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street Orchestra, with guest artists.
Today's choice of records is by Una Marson of the BBC's West Indian Section
Repeat of last night's recorded broadcast
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Recorded in America, and heard by arrangement with the American Forces Network.
Conductor, Rae Jenkins
and his Orchestra, with Sally Doug las, Carole Carr , Len Camber. Johnny Green. Alan Grant. Archie Lewis , and Three Boys and a Girl
Conductor. Charles Groves
An entertainment for Forces overseas: Bruce Trent, Jackie Hunter, Marilyn Williams, Peggie Stone; Hubert Gregg in 'Composer Cavalcade,' with Rita Williams; Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Rhythm. BBC Revue Orchestra: conductor, Alan Crooks. Introduced by Valerie Tandy.
From the stage of the Queensberry All-Services Club.
Famous sporting personalities answer listeners' queries. The experts: Harold Abrahams , W. Barrington Dalby , Charles Buchan , and (this week, with memories of the 1937 Boat
Race), John Snagge. Question-Master, Raymond Glendenning
Close-ups from the war-fronts
Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas
with Ada Alsop (soprano), Owen Brannigan (bass), and Sandy Macpherson at the organ of the Odeon Theatre, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
(BBC recording)
(by permission of the A.O.C.-in-C.). conducted by Squadron Leader Martin Boundy, Director of Music. R.C.A.F. Overseas
Conductor, Guy Warrack
and reports from the battlefronts
Records chosen' for themselves by British Forces overseas
bv Mileson Horton. Produced by Peter Watts. ..6—' The Case of the Poisoned Passenger.'
All the fun of the fair on the air with Robb Wilton , Max Wall , Polly Ward , Jack Train , Harold Berens , Benny Lee , Doris Nichols , Harry Lester and his Hayseeds, and the Debroy Somers Orchestra conducted by Bobby Howell. Guest artists, Anna Citroen , and Nat Mills .and Bobbie. Written by Max Kester and produced by Part Dixon.
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 bv Leading Telegraphist L. F. Packer , R.N.
Vernon Adcock and his Dance Orchestra