Records chosen by Forces overseas

from swing to classics

Records of Harry Mortimer

Recording of Carroll Gibbons and his Orchestra, broadcast in the Home Service at 4.30 p.m., on April 9

for Forces newspapers overseas

Dance music, recorded in America and heard by arrangement with the American Forces Network .

Background information on matters of current interest.

Music chosen by a member of the Forces serving overseas. Today's choice is by Staff-Sgt. William R. England, U.S. Army

Jan Berenska and his Orchestra, with Jack Wilson (piano)

(by permission of the Air Council), conducted by Sgt. J. Miller

Conductor, Mr. E. T. R. Palmer
Regimental Marches: The Red Rose:
The Mountain Rose

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-Lieut. Eric Barker. Pearl Hackney , and Telegraphist Ivor Pye. ' 'Double or Quits cash quiz, conducted by Lieut. Harrold Warren der, 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.

Kay Cavendish with her piano.
(Recording of last Thursday's broadcast)

Recording of last Thursday's broadcast in the Home Service

Close-ups from the war-fronts

Records, chcsen for themselves by British Forces overseas

Conducted by Ian Whyte

Introduced by James Sloan , with Sydney MacEwan (tenor), and a visit' to the Army School of Piping; weekly sports news, including a commentary by Leo Hunter on the Glasgow Police Boxing Tournament in St. Andrew's Hall : Call Yourself a Scot? '-the weekly quiz. Produced by John Keir Cross

Weekly broadcasts from well-known Variety theatres: this week, the Pavilion, Torquay, with Cyril Fletcher , Johnson Clark , and Morton Fraser

and interlude

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

and the Dance Orchestra, with Rita Marlowe , Benny Lee. Sid Buckman. and the Prairie Boys

Barbara McFadyean 's new series of programmes for men serving in Italy who have discovered the delights of opera

Weekly review of sporting events past and present: survey of Services Rugby at home and overseas. Introduced by Andrew Wemyss

followed at 9.10 by Home News from Canada cabled from the CBC News Rooms

Gramophone records of your favourite music, selected and introduced by Doris Arnold

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.

Harry Fryer and his Orchestra. (Recording of a broadcast in the Home Service on April 14)