and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Max Bacon, that comedian of absurdities
Exercises for men
A thought for today
followed by Programme Parade some details about today's programmes
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Dermot Moeran
at the theatre organ
(soprano)
Tunes we whistled and sang a year or two ago, .on gramophone records
(bom January 18, 1841-died 1894)
BBC Scottish Orchestra
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Overture: Gwendoline Pastorale suite
1 Idyll. 2 Rustic dance. 3 In the woods. 4 Scherzo waltz
Danse slave (Le roi malgré lui) Rhapsody: Espana
from p. 49 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 44 of ' Each Returning Day
to records of Josephine Bradley and her Ballroom Orchestra
Scottish members of the Women's Voluntary Services for Civil Defence tell their own story
at the theatre organ
Selection from the film The Great
Victor Herbert
Popular pot-pourri
played by Marie Donska
Rhythmic Players
on gramophone records
Reginald Purdell will do his best to introduce a programme of songs and sketches interrupted by Horace Percival and Jacques Brown
BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Presented by Gordon Crier
'Pig clubs in 1941' by Cedric Drewe , M.P.
played by J. H. Squire 's Celeste Octet
sung by Mary Hamlin (soprano) and Alec John (tenor)
illustrated by gramophone records
Written and presented by Roger Wimbush
played by Percival Mackey and his Band
Leader, Laurance Turner
Guest conductor, Julius Harrison
His Majesty's Destroyers ex U.S. Navy named after villages and towns
A series of programmes, each giving an account of the town or village in Britain with a namesake in "the U.S.A.
No. 4—Montgomery
Compere, H. Rooney Pelletier
An excerpt from a pantomime from a theatre in the West
The cast includes
Eight Academy Girls
Grosvenor Singers
Judith Espinosa Ballet
Orchestra directed by George Freeman
Produced by Albert H. Grant
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Ymddiddan gan J. Henry Jones
(A talk in Welsh)
Children's Variety with a story 'The donkey and the twelve small frogs', by A. Balfour Sinclair
Rae Russell (harp solos)
Alexander Carmichael (song)
Irene Spowart (impersonations) and a surprise item
A talk to stamp-collectors by A. Keith Macdonald
A. Keith Macdonald has been collecting stamps since 1893, and specialises in pre-cancelled stamps, principally of the United States. His collection is one of the largest, if not the largest, in the country. He is a member of the Aberdeen,
Caledonian, and Dundee Society of Philatelists, and Ex-President of the Glasgow Society of Philatelists.
He has done an enormous amount of Children's Hour broadcasting. He first appeared at the Children's Hour microphone in 1924, and has been broadcasting regularly ever since.
followed by National and Regional announcements
Questions which are puzzling listeners in these difficult times are discussed each fortnight in this series of talks. Tonight's speakers will again be George Haynes and Herbert Hodge
Once again we stop the London traffic in order to introduce to you some of the interesting people who are In Town Tonight
Introducing personalities from every walk of life
Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan
(A recording of this programme will be broadcast on Sunday at 11.0 a.m.)
The people of the countryside
In this typical rural district people have been doing their bit, going to it in their homes and jobs and in many ways re-adjusting their lives. Not only farming people, but billeting workers, local officials and teachers will tell their war stories
Narrator, Ken Beard
Programme assembled and produced by John Pudney
with Bennett and Williams two jovial boys with their phonofiddles
Norman Long a joke, a song, and a piano
Binnie Hale
BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell
Presented by John Sharman
' Trapping down North '
Corporal Tony Onraet, C.A.S.F. interviewed by Dr. Thomas Wood
Men from distant lands of the Dominions and Colonies come to the microphone at this time every fortnight to tell of the trade they followed and the home they left to cross the Seven Seas to fight for Britain.
Just over two months ago Corporal Tony Onraet , the fur trapper from the Smith Creek country down north beyond Edmonton in Canada, broadcast some of his experiences in the Bush. This time he is speaking principally of his famous dog team and of beaver, and of the houses and dams that beaver build in the lakes and creeks of the Canadian Arctic.
5-Music for the million
Arranged by Gordon McConnel and Harold Lowe with Linda Gray
Frank Titterton
BBC Theatre Chorus
Trained by Charles Groves
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe
Compere, Christopher Stone
An anthology arranged by Ursula Wood
Produced by M. H. Allen
English pantomime in ten tableaux by Sacheverell Sitwell
Music by Lord Berners played by BBC Orchestra (Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Constant Lambert
and his Band
