Gramophone records
News Headlinesfrom swing to classics
Records of Duke Ellington
Recording of Jack Simpson and his Sextet, broadcast in the Home Service on June 16
News read at dictation speed for Forces newspapers overseas
Dance music recorded in America and. heard by arrangement with the American Forces Network
's broadcast
News Headlines
Half-hour programme of music chosen by a member of the Forces serving overseas. Today's choice is by Signalman Philip Bour , Royal Signals, M.E.F.
Jan Berenska and his Orchestra, with Jack Wilson (piano)
News Headlinesand his Band, with Diane and Rita Williams
Conductor, Harold Moss
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 serving afloat or overseas. The ' Agamemnon ' Concert Dance Orchestra, conducted by Bandmaster Hobbs , R.M.B., and Naval artists from the ship's Concert Party. The ' Double or Quits' cash quiz, conducted by Lieutenant Harold Warrender , R.N.V.R. A guest from the W.R.N.S. introduces the programme which is produced in collaboration with the Welfare Services Department of the Admiralty.
Alan Paul with Helen Clare and George Melachrino bring you fifteen minutes of smooth harmony. (BBC recording)
Repeat of yesterday's recorded broadcast
Records chosen for themselves by British Forces overseas
Conductor, Charles Groves
James Sloan introduces a concert by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, conductor Ian Whyte. Ian Sadler in a Highland sketch, The Traffic Policeman. Scots poetry read bv C. R. M. Brookes : the weekly sports news. Produced by John Keir Cross
Weekly broadcasts from well-known Variety theatres. This week's bill: Albert Whelan, Marie Lloyd, Jnr., and Murray and Minton. From the Queen's Theatre, Poplar, London
and interlude
on gramophone records
by Agatha Christie and Frank Vosper, from a story by Agatha Christie
[Starring] Pamela Brown and John Slater
Recording of yesterday's broadcast
Followed at 9.10 by Home News from Canada
Cabled from the CBC News Rooms
Introduced by Barbara McFadyean
News Headlineswith 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.
BBC Midland Light Orchestra, conducted by H. C. Burgess. (Recording of a broadcast in the Home Service on June 12)