Listings
: Reveille!
Cheerful gramophone records.: NORRIS STANLEY -
and his Sextet: 'DOWNBEAT'
Les. Hite and his Orchestra: 'CAIRO CALLING
for Persia and Iraq. Messages recorded by members of the Services for their relatives and friends in Great Britain, introduced by Peter HaddonContributors
: Sunday Serenade
Scottish Variety Orchestra (conductor, Ronnie Munro ), with Janette Sclanders , Ann Rich , and Ian GourlayContributors
: For Isolated Units
Sunday service from Bristol Cathedral, conducted by the Dean (Very Rev. Harry W. Blackburne , D.S.O., M.C.)Contributors
: FOR THE INDIAN FORCES
Introduced by B. Sahni. ' India Calling ' : personal messages from India to the members of H.M. Forces in Great BritainQawwalis, Ghazals, and some new film songs
Adab Arz
Contributors
: RANSOME AND MARLES WORKS BAND
Guest conductor, J: A. GreenwoodContributors
: Workers' Playtime
BBC recording of the programme broadcast direct to North America during the midnight break yesterday, from a factory somewhere in Northern Ireland, with a recorded message from Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland.Contributors
: MANTOVANI
and his Dance Orchestra: 'THE . BING CROSBY SHOW
with John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra, the Charioteers, and Bing Crosby. ' Recorded in America by arrangement with the Special Service Division of the War Department of the United States of America: 'I KNOW WHAT I LIKE ...'
in Variety. Today Freddy Grisewood gives his choice of a Variety bill, on recordsContributors
: Band of H.M. GRENADIER GUARDS
Conducted by Lieutenant F. J. Harris , Director of Music, Grenadier GuardsContributors
: 'ACCENT ON RHYTHM'
Repeat of yesterday's recorded broadcast: 'JOHNNY CANUCK'S REVUE'
Variety show by members of the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Sgt. Stan Shedden and the Canuck's Orchestra ; Cpl. Bill Smith ; L.A.C.Ted Hockridge ; Gunner Carl Asplund , and a fun department presided over by Cpl. Ernie Holden and Pte. Chick Zamick. Master of Ceremonies, Gerry Wilmot. Produced by the London office of the CBC
Contributors
: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Phil Green and his Band: GREGORI TCHERNIAK BALALAIKA TRIO
and Nina Lenova (soprano)(All arrangements by Bernard Sheaff )
Contributors
: 'CROSS-ROADS'
starring Bing Crosby , Bob Hope , and Dorothy Lamou . Twenty-five minutes of music, songs, and scenes from three famous film journeys taken from the sound-track of the ' Road to Zanzibar ', 'Road to Singapore ', and ' Road to Morocco ', including the actual recorded voices of the stars (by permission of Paramount Pictures). At the cross-roads, Peter Eton. Script and radio adaptation by Harry Alan Towers . Edited by Peter EtonContributors
: THE BRAINS TRUST
answering ' Any Questions ? ' Today's Brains Trust : Commander A. B. Campbell , Yvonne Arnaud ,C. B. Cochran , Richard Coppock , and Professor E. N. da C. Andrade. Today's
Question-Master : John Betjeman. Producer, Howard Thomas.
Contributors
: ' FORCES CHOICE'
Members of the fighting Services, and of the Home Front who work behind them, come to the microphone with their choice of gramophone records. Introduced by Hamilton KennedyContributors
: Transatlantic Call - People to People
No. 35 — 'Mason City, Iowa'. Written and produced by Alan Lpmax and John Becker. Alan Lomax introducesBritish listeners to the farm-workers of Mason City, a market town in Iowa, and tells the story of their lives on the farms in the Rural West
Contributors
: SONGS THAT FATHER SANG'
(and Mother too) with Violet Carson , Wilfred Pickles , Stephen Manton , Hamilton Harris , and the Wilton Singers. A section of the BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Lewis. Produced by Arthur SpencerContributors
: WEEKLY NEWS-LETTER
Review of* the week's news: 'THE HAPPIDROME'
wifli Peter Sinclair , Laelia Finneberg , Emilio, Tom Gamble , and Harry Korris as. iMr. Lovejoy ', assisted by Cecil Frederick (' Ramsbottom and Robbie Vincent (' Enoch '). Happidrome Orchestra and Chorus. Produced and conducted by Ernest LongstaffeContributors
: SANDY MACPHERSON
at the organ of the Ritz Cinema, Belfast: 'GRAND HOTEL'
Albert Sandler and the Palm Court Orchestra, with Joan Hammond (soprano), in a programme of the kind of music heard in the Palm Court of your favourite hotel in the days before the war. Programme produced by Fred Hartley and Douglas LawrenceContributors
: NEWS
followed by a postscript: ' THE STAGE PRESENTS ...'
Theatreland's tribute to the Forces everywhere-a programme sponsored by every branch of the entertainment world, and produced with the co-operation of the Theatres War Service CouncilThe programme, produced by Michael North , comes from a theatre in the heart of London, and is transmitted throughout the world-wide network of the BBC.
Contributors
: EPILOGUE
'Thy kingdom come ' ; Thy kingdom come, 0 Lord (A. and M. 217) ; Isaiah 9, vv. 1-7 ; The race that long in darkness pined (S.P. 96) ; St. Matthew 6, v. 33: LISTEN AT EASE '
Records of armchair music: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
Jack Simpson and his SextetAbout this project
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