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Gramophone records of excerpts from some outstanding musical plays
Selection : Old Chelsea (Tauber) :
New Mayfair Orchestra
From The Vagabond King (Friml) :
Love me tonight : Anne Ziegler (soprano) and .Webster Booth (tenor) ; Song of the Vagabonds : Webster Booth
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (On Your
Toes : Rodgers and Hart) : Paul Whiteman 's Concert Orchestra
Zlgeuner (Bitter Sweet : Coward) :
Evelyn Laye (soprano)
Cobbler's Song (Chu Chin Chow :
Norton) : Malcolm McEachern (bass)

Contributors

Soprano:
Anne Ziegler
Unknown:
Paul Whiteman
Soprano:
Evelyn Laye
Bass:
Malcolm McEachern

This listing contains language that some may find offensive.

Variety, with songs by Ernest Butcher ; entertainment at the piano by Ronald Gourley : impersonations by Ernest Regan ; Ronald Chesney and his mouth-organ ; Ivor Dennis at the piano. Artists introduced by Lionel Gamlin

Contributors

Songs By:
Ernest Butcher
Unknown:
Ronald Gourley
Unknown:
Ernest Regan
Unknown:
Ronald Chesney
Unknown:
Ivor Dennis
Introduced By:
Lionel Gamlin

A radio pageant of the British Army in this war. Music arranged by Francis M. Collinson , played by the Royal Air Force Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Wing Commander R. P. O'Donnell , M.V.O. (by permission of the Air Council). Dramatic narrative by Sgt. Percy Hoskins. Produced by Brigid Maas
This programme of military music salutes the soldiers of Britain ; the men who from the early days of disaster have created a new Army and a new spirit

Contributors

Unknown:
Francis M. Collinson
Unknown:
R. P. O'Donnell
Unknown:
Percy Hoskins.
Produced By:
Brigid Maas

One hour of all-star entertainment from a Garrison Theatre, given before an audience of serving soldiers
Alice Delysia
Robert Easton
Anne Shelton
Eric Barker
Richard Murdoch and the Burt
Twins
Will Fyffe
Master of Ceremonies, Corporal Jack Hancock. BBC Variety Orchestra, under its conductor, Charles Shadwell. Produced by Michael North

Contributors

Unknown:
Alice Delysia
Unknown:
Robert Easton
Unknown:
Anne Shelton
Unknown:
Eric Barker
Unknown:
Richard Murdoch
Unknown:
Jack Hancock.
Conductor:
Charles Shadwell.
Produced By:
Michael North

A play written for and about the Army by J. B. Priestley. (Acts 1 and 3.) Presented by arrangement with A.B.C.A. and the Central Pool of Artists. Produced by Major Michael Macowan. Radio production by Barbara Burnham
The scene is ' a hollow near an old highway in the Syrian Desert, where — it is assumed for the purpose of the play-a campaign is being fought

Contributors

Unknown:
J. B. Priestley.
Produced By:
Major Michael MacOwan.
Production By:
Barbara Burnham
Sergeant Ben Joseph:
Sgi. Stephen Murray
Corporal Philip Donnington:
Sgt John Wyse
Private (' Knocker ') Elvin:
Pte. Stanley Rose
Private Herbert Shaw:
Gunner George Cooper
Private Iltydd Hughes:
W/o 2 William E. James
Private George Wick:
Sapper Clive Baxter

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BBC Home Service is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 1st September 1939 and ended on the 29th September 1967.

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