Records chosen by Forces overseas

from swing to classics

Records of Georges Thill

Recording of the London Coliseum Orchestra (conductor, Reginald Burston ), broadcast in the Home Service on April 21

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 Molly Rankin. of the BBC Repertory Company

Recording of last night's broadcast

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

Conductor. Alan Crooks.

and his Band, with Harry Davis featuring Diane, Terry Devon , and Alan Dean

Conductor, Guy Warrack

An entertainment for Forces overseas: ' Hutch,' Eleanor Fayre , Ernest Shannon. Eddie Edwards. Ray John son, Captain Cam Ritchie , Arthur Young in ' Composer Cavalcade.' BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Introduced by Enid Stamp-Taylor (now appearing in ' Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? '). Produced by Cecil Madden and Stephen Williams. From the stage of the Queensberry All-Services Club.

Eugene Pini playing popular light pieces written or transcribed for the violin

Famous sporting personalities answer listeners' queries. The experts: Harold Abrahams, W. Barrington Dalby, Charles Buchan and, this week with memories of Len Hutton's Test Match record, Howard Marshall. Question-Master, Raymond Glendenning

Close-ups from the war-fronts

Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas

with Dawn Davis. and Reginald Porter-Brown and Felton Rapley at the theatre organ and grand piano. Introduced by Sandy Macpherson

(by permission of the Commandant), conducted by Lieut. Meredith Roberts , Director of Music, Royal Military School of Music

Conductor, Charles Groves

and interlude

Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas

2-' The Case of the Burning Barn.'

AH 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, Helen Hill and Ted Ray. Written by Max Kester and produced by Pat Dixon.

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

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

edited and read by Frederic Phelan
and News from New Zealand edited and read by Sgt. Tom Mahoney editor of the New Zealand Forces paper, the "Southern Cross"

Music chosen by a member of the Forces overseas. Today, Cpl. Sharpe , R.A.F.. Southern Rhodesia

Lou Preager and his Orchestra