Alex McCrindle introduces your request records

William Davies at the BBC theatre organ

' La Boheme,' Acts 1 and 2 An illustrated talk by Boyd Neel

Oscar Rabin and his Band

under the direction of Harold C. Gee with Isabelita Alonso (soprano)

Middlesex v. Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire v. West Indies
Commentaries by Rex Alston from Lord's, and by Peter West from Trent Bridge, Nottingham

at the organ of the Ritz, Potters Bar

with Miriam Karldn
Lyn Evans
BBC Variety Orchestra Conductor, Rae Jenkins
Script by Eric Nicol
Production by Ian C. Messiter

Commentaries on the start of the race by Charles Gardner from Wolverhampton Aerodrome, and by Raymond Baxter from a turning-point at Meir Aerodrome half-way round the course

Middlesex v. Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire v. West Indies
Further commentaries

Further commentaries during the course of the race by Charles Gardner at Wolverhampton Aerodrome and Raymond Baxter at Meir Aerodrome

and his Orchestra

Commentaries on the end of the race by Charles Gardner at Wolverhampton Aerodrome and Raymond Baxter at Meir Aerodrome

A microphone tour of Morden Hall Park, Surrey where the annual Film Garden Party is being held this afternoon including:
A commentary by Raymond Glendenning on an obstacle race for which many well-known film stars have entered.
A visit to the Stage of Fame where Leslie Mitchell introduces 'Stars in Daylight,' a radio revue with an all-film-star cast.
Flashes from the side-shows, with Brian Johnston as guide.
Organised by the Sunday Pictorial.

Middlesex v. Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire v. West Indies
Further commentaries by Rex Alston from Lord's, and by Peter West from Trent Bridge, Nottingham

Middlesex v. Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire v. West Indies
Commentaries continued

presents the story of a great influence in jazz
Boogie-woogie
Music edited by Steve Race
Script and continuity by Hector Stewart
Producer, Johnnie Stewart

Middlesex v. Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire v. West Indies
Further commentaries

Dudley Perkins explains some aspects of the law about husband and wife, parents and children

Nottinghamshire v. West Indies
Close of play score

including cricket close of play scores

The Irish Minstrel with Leslie Paul at the piano
The Four Ramblers
Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Frank Cantell

'These are the voices and sounds of history'

1934-1939
H. G. Wells (Prophet of the atomic age), Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Benito Mussolini, King George V, Amelia Earhart, The Hindenburg disaster, The Abdication of King Edward VIII, Munich, Adolf Hitler, The Declaration of War, Neville Chamberlain

The War Years
Dunkirk, J.B. Priestley, The exiled rulers of Europe, Winston Churchill, The Blitz
America enters the war, Franklin D. Roosevelt, General Douglas MacArthur, Alamein, General Montgomery, D-Day, General Eisenhower, Arnhem, The liberation of the concentration camps, VE-Day, The Death of President Roosevelt, The Japanese Surrender, Clement Attlee

1945-1949
The General Election, The Nuremberg Trials, The Royal Tour of South Africa, King George VI, Princess Elizabeth, Lord Louis Mountbatten, The Royal Wedding, The Duke of Edinburgh, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, George Marshall, The Atlantic Pact, President Truman, Ernest Bevin, The Olympic Games

Narration by John Snagge

(Previously broadcast in the London Home Service on December 22, 1949)
("The Sounds of Time" is broadcast by arrangement with Oriole Records, Ltd.)

The Voices and Sounds of History
The broadcast at 8.0 presents the story of the years from 1934 to 1949 through the medium of notable recordings selected from the archives of the BBC's Recorded Programmes Library

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The second of a series of six programmes in which Lionel Gamlin suggests some books for family reading

Joe Loss and his Orchestra
Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Band
The Johnny Paradise Orchestra with the Mermaids