Listings
: Reveille!
Cheerful gramophone records: 'SHOW-TIME'
with Dinah Shore: MORNING MISCELLANY
on gramophone records: JAMES BELL
at the organ of the Odeon, Leicester Square: VAN DAM
and his Orchestra: 'SING IT!'
Records of vocal jazz: ' SUT HWYL?'
Rhaglen o ddiddordeb arbennig i fechgyn a merched y Lluoedd Arfog. Y cyfarwyddo gan Sam Jones. (Welsh light programme)Contributors
: 'RECORD ROUNDABOUT'
A merry-go-round of morning music: JACK PAYNE
with his Orchestra: Workers' Playtime
Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain.: IVY BENSON
and her Girls Band: 'THE COMPOSER AND THE ARRANGER'
Individual arrangements of familiar tunes, played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra : conductor, Rae JenkinsContributors
: FAVOURITE WELSH SONGS OF YESTERDAY
Ceinwen Rowlands (soprano). Geraint Davies (tenor). Welsh Light Orchestra, conducted by Idris LewisContributors
: MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK
BBC Variety Orchestra : conductor, Charles ShadwellContributors
: SANDY MACPHERSON
at the theatre organ: 'THE DANSANT'
with Lucan and McShane, and Reginald Williams and his Band. From the Pump Room, BathContributors
: 'JAZZ IN MINIATURE'
Benny Goodman 's smaller units : gramophone programme of a small jazz group, written by F. W. BaileyContributors
: 'THE TENOR AS VILLAIN'
Introduced with operatic gramophone records by Stephen WilliamsContributors
: NEWS
followed by National and Regional announcements: NEWS FROM CANADA
Province-by-Province bulletin for Canadian Forces stationed in Great Britain : tonight, news from Quebec; in French: ENSA Half-Hour
'A Date with the R.A.F.' Master of Ceremonies, Clay Keyes; introducing the guest artists, and Jay Wilbur and his Orchestra. Programme produced 'by Eric Spear and presented by the Department of National Service Entertainment (NAAFI)Contributors
: Central Band of the ROYAL AIR FORCE
(by permission of the Air Council). Conducted by Wing Commander R P. O'Donnell, M.V.O., Organising Director of Music, Royal Air Force: LAVENDER AND LACE
A peep into the past, with Thea Wells , and Reginald King and his Quintet. Memories recalled by Thea WellsContributors
: John Watt introduces ' SONGS FROM THE SHOWS '
Fifty-ninth programme in the series presenting music from stage and film successes of the present and of the past.Cast includes Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth, Betty Kent, and George Melachrino. Musical arrangements by Donald Edge, and orchestrations supervised by Wally Wallond. BBC Revue Chorus. The Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent, and the BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves.
Contributors
: ' INTO BATTLE '
The fighting spirit of the United Nations. Dramatic presentation of the free peoples of the world at war. ' Number Thirteen' : how a raiding party went out from the British lines in Libya, and penetrated five hundred miles of enemy territory to dynamite a secret Nazi airfield. Written by Peter Gordon. Produced by Rosemary ColleyContributors
: Big Bill Campbell's 'ROCKY MOUNTAIN RHYTHM'
featuring Buck Douglas , Peggy Bailey , Little Jake Connolly , Hobo Jack Mitchell , and the Home Town Mountain Band. Also Episode 3 of the Western serial, ' Death in the Canyon', written by Big Bill Campbell , with Leslie Bradley as ' Lucky' Leamon. Produced by Eric FawcettContributors
: ' MARCH OF THE MOVIES
Motion-picture parade introducing songs, scenes, and personalities from films of the past,, present, and future. Programme introduced by Leslie Mitchell . Written by Harry Alan Towers , and produced by Charles MaxwellContributors
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