Listings
: Reveille!
Cheerful gramophone records: NEWS
Programme summary: BLACK DYKE MILLS BAND
Conducted by Arthur 0. Pearce. (Gramophone records): NEWS
Programme Parade: THE KITCHEN FRONT
' Try Something New from South Africa ', by Sylvia SchweppesContributors
: MUSIC OF SCOTLAND
Grace Leslie '(soprano), John Mearns ' (baritone), and George Davie (violin). Alexander Keith provides the introductionContributors
: JACK PAYNE
with his Orchestra.: LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Constant Lambert . (Gramophone records)Contributors
: IVY BENSON
and her Girls Band: BREAK FOR MUSIC
ENSA concert for war-workers, from a factory canteen. Henry Hall and his Orchestra. Guest artist, Leonard HenryContributors
: WAR COMMENTARY
Recording of last night's broadcast: 'HOLIDAYS AT HOME'
Open-air music in London : Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, conducted by Band Sergeant E. R. Evans, playing in St. James's Park: ' TOP-O'-THE-BILL'
Today's Variety on records: REGINALD FOORT
plays another programme in waltz time at the theatre organ: FAMOUS MUSICAL PLAYS
Excerpts on gramophone records: POPULAR CONCEPT
given by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (conductor, Rae Jenkins ), with Victor Newbury (baritone)Contributors
: ERIC WINSTONE
and his Orchestra, with Alan Kane , Julie Dawn , Jean Williams , and Roy MarshContributors
: ' MARCHING ON '
Recording of last night's broadcast: NEWS
National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary: 'RADIO ALLOTMENT'
Plotside- broadcasts from a BBC allotment cultivated by the Outside Broadcasting Departmerft. Commentator, Michael Standing. Adviser, Thomas Hay. From a London residential squareContributors
: SOME FAMOUS SPY STORIES'
(Second series.) 7-' Sarajevo-and the Consequences ', or ' How to Start a War'. Written by Alec Dyer. Produced by Walter RillaContributors
: ROCKY MOUNTAIN RHYTHM'
featuring Big Bill Campbell and his Radio Cowboys and Ranch Girls. From the stage of the Hippodrome, WolverhamptonContributors
: EDMUNDO ROS
and his Rumba Band: Danger, Men at Work!
Unintentional return of radio's most unpopular programme, with Haver and Lee as the Men at Work, Jacques Brown as Nikolus Ridikoulos, Doris Nichols as Mrs. Ponsonby, and Billy Ternent and the Dance Orchestra. Blame Max Kester for script and production (sic.). (of a programme previously broadcast on June 5, 1940)Contributors
: THE JACK BENNY PROGRAMME
Thirty-third of these programmes, featuring Mary Livingstone , Don Wilson , Dennis Day , ' 'Rochester', and Jack Benny. Recorded in America by arrangement with the Special Service Division of the War Department of the United States of AmericaContributors
: JAY WILBUR
and his melody on strings: BALLADS
sung by the BBC Theatre Chorus, conducted by John Clements. At the piano, Winifred DaveyContributors
: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra : conductor, William Pethers. From the New Hippodrome, Coventry. (Recording of the broadcast on July 17)Contributors
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