Records chosen by Forces overseas

from swing to classics

Records of Richard Crooks

Recording of the London Coliseum Orchestra (conducted by Reginald Burston), broadcast in the Home Service on May 5

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 Mollie Greenhalgh

Recording of last night's broadcast

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

Conducted by H. C. Burgess

and his Orchestra, with Sally Douglas , Carole Carr , Len Camber , Johnny Green , Archie Lewis , and Three Boys and a Girl'

Conducted by Julius Harrison

An Entertainment for Forces
Overseas
Dorothy Squires , Peter Sinclair , Kathleen Moody , Charles Stephen , Mary Naylor , Nicholas Brodszky in ' Composer Cavalcade,' with Rita Williams , Jacqueline Boyer. BBC Revue Orchestra: conductor, Alan Crooks. Introduced by Dorothy Hyson ,
'Produced by Cecil Madden and Stephen Williams. From the stage of the Queensberry All-Services Club.

David McCallum 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 to deal with billiards and snooker problems, Joe Davis , World Snooker Champion. Question-Master, Raymond Glendenning

Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas

On gramophone records.

Introduced by Sandy Macpherson

Rome v. London
A match between a Central
Mediterranean Services team playing in Rome, and a Metropolitan Police team in London, described by Charlie Garner in London and a Services commentator in Rome

and interlude

Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas

4—' The Case of the Relief Signalman.'

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, Hatton and Manners, and Cherry Lind. 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 Room*

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 Mahony ,' Editor of New Zealand Forces Paper, the ' Southern Cross'

Half-hour programme of music chosen by a member of the Forces overseas. Today's choice is by Pte. T. Christie, R.A.O.C., C.M.F.

The New Organolians, with Jimmy Leach at the piano