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RADIO Tom Took Mine
12.15 p.m.-Short' Service of Interces-
sion.
12.30
with
p.m.-Military Band Music Potor Dawson (Bass-Baritone). The British Grenadiers-Patrol March (Robinson): The Cock o' the North Patrol (Carrie)... - Highland Fuden's Motor Works Band, Young Briton's Heritage (Hennessy); Our River Thames (Hennessy).. Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with plano Fantare: The
Boy: Minstrel
The
"In Tow"
"TOM NEWTON, Devon," are the only details of the identity of the hero of a floating mine exploit which has won the Medal of the Civil Division of the
Watch Tower: Mechanised Infantry O.B.E. in the latest list of awards for bravery.
-Quick
(McBain)
The
Massed Bands of the Aldershot &
March
Eastern Commands.
1 Fear No Foc (Pinsuli)
Peter
Describing how he won the award, the an-
Dawson (Bass-Baritone with piano.nouncement says: "A floating mine was being wash- Royal Review Quick March (Silvered through a harbour entrance and appeared likely
Tudor
Rose (Adams)
Massed
Bunds of the Aldershot and Eastern to ground close to some cottages.
Commands.
1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal,
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Humorous The Old
Schoul Tie....
June
Jana
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21 June 28
The Western Brothers Vocal My Old Irish Mother (Dean),
Danny Danny Bay (Weatherley)
1 Duet will him- Malune singing self.
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Ethel Sketch The Steamboat Trip
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with Will Fyffe Will Fyffe with Orchestra Vocal-The Irish Emigrant (Barker! (Tenor) with Malone Danny Orchestra
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Davies)
Kisir Isobel Baillie. Suddaby, Astra Desmond & Chorus The Cloud-Cap't Towers (Stevens)
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Y Bore Glas (Welsh Folk Song)
Margaret Hres & Welsh Chorus, Twankydillo (English Folk Song)
Robert Easton & English Chorus England (Parry) . Mary Jarred
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tions.
6.32 p.m.-An Elgar Programme.
Prelude "The Kingdom,' Op. 51.
The BB.C Symphony Orchestra cond by Sir Edward Elgar, It's Ohi To Be A Wild Wind: Feast- 1 Watch The Westininster ing. Singera
La Capricieuse, Op. 17... Josef Has-
sid (Violin) with piano. "Crown of India" Suite, Op. 06.
Introduction and Dance of Nautch
Dance Girls--Minuel-Warriors* March of the Mogul Emperors... London Symphony Orchestra cond. by Sir Edward Elgar.
7.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 7.15 p.m.-London Relay "Questions
of the Hour".
7.30 p.m. - London
Relay
-Special Broadcast to the British Forces in the Far East.
8:00 p.m.--Local Time Signal and An-
nouncements.
B.01 p.m.-An Empire Programme.
Fantasia-The British Empire (arr. Haydn Wood)--Intro: England- "The British Grenadiers"; Ireland --The Minstrel
India- Boy":
the of Waics-"March Rekhtah; Men of Harlech"; Canada-Canoe ing Song: Australia-Aboriginal Air; South Africa-Folk Song; SCOL- land-Caller Herrin' & The Hun- dred Pipers: New Zealand-Nation- al Song: Finale....Mayfair Sym- phony Orchestra.
Land of Hope and Glory (Elgar).... Nancy Evans and Chorus with The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, The
Road to the Isles (Kennedy Fraser)....Stuart Robertson (Bass- Baritone) with piano. Waltzing Matilda (Paterson-Cowan) ....Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra & Chorus. English Folk Songs & Dances (arr. Fairfield)Intro.: John Barleycorn; Admiral Benbow; As I Walked Through the Meadows; Bingo: Dashing away with the Smooting Iron: Nancy's Fancy: Drunken Sailor; Bacca Pipes Jig: Of Waly! Waly! Heave Away My Johnny: Barley Mow; The Crystal Spring ....Regimental Band of H.M. Irish Guards. Walata Poi (Hill)....Peter Dawson
(Bass-Baritone) with Orchestra Chorus.
The Dear Little Shamrock (Jackson)
Malone ....Danny
with
(Tenor)
Organ. Land of My Fathers (James
James)....David Brazell (Baritone) with Orchestra, Colonial Medley-Intro.: Canada→→ ""The Maple Leaf for ever": "0 Canada"; Australia "Advance. Australia": New Zealand-"God defend New Zealand"; South Africa "Sarie Marais"....Thy Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards.
God Save The King; and Rule, Bri
tannia....Regimental Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards.
8.45 p.m.-London Relay-"The Empire "at War", Extracts from the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill's speeches May 1040-May 1941... 9.00p.m.-Londen Relay-The News &
News Commentary.
9.15. p.m.-Ivor Novalto-The Miracle of Nichaow" Temple Ballet. Muslo from "Careless- Rapture" .... Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra.
9.30 p.m.-Studio--Talk · Ing. Pollih: by 'Pawel Kittay, Press Attache to the
Polish Legation In Shanghali,
| 9.40 pini.—Local Sports Rerults,"
"Mr. Newton took a long oar and, with complete disregard of his own safety, guided the mine out, passing it along the break- water and fending it off. When he found a suitable place, he beached the mine and reported it to the authorities.
rope
The mine had all its horns in- tact, which made it specially dan-
Had the mooring gerous. fouled, or the mine struck against might have the breakwater it
up and killed been blown people in the cottages."
Heroism in a big station, where 20,000
9.48.10.00 p.m.-Newa
the
generating gallons of
In French (on
Ter-
Short Wave only) 9.45 p.m.-Sea Shanties and Songs.
Windjammer (arr Aboard the
ry)-Intro A-roving: Shenandoah: What shall we do with the drunken Sailor: Hullabaloo Halay The Drummer & the Cook; Tom's gone to Hile: Bonry was a Stuart Robertson (Bass-Baritone) with Male Chorus & Accordeon Sea Songs-- Intro.: Jolly Roger
Sailors' Chorus
Portsmouth
warrior
Royal Naval Singers. Rio Grande: Billy Boy (arr Terry i John Goss and the Cathedral Male Voice Quartet,
10.00 p.m.-London Relay "Happi.
drome".
11.00 p.m.-New Dance Music.
Fox-Trois-Rigmarole;
Swamp Fire ...Jimmy Dorsey & his Orch, Rumba Bilongo; Bolero Cancion Del Mar. Xavier Cugat & his Waldorf Astoria Orchestra, Fox-Trois-Our Luve Alair (from "Strike up the Band"); Good-Night Again....Billy Cotton & his Band.
Slow Fox-Trol-Can't Get Indiana of My Mind... New Mayfair Dance
Orchestra. Quick-Step-The Ferry Boat Seren.
ade; Fox-Trot-The
Bell. Swiss ringer New Mayfair Dance Orch.
Two Waltz-When Shall We
Meet Again: Slow Fox-Trot--Confetti on the Pavement. Mantovani & his Orchestra.
Quick-Step Maybe:
Fox-Trot All
the Things You Are... Joe Loss & his Orchestra.
Swing Fox-Trots-Blue Goose; Dusk ...Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra.
6/8 One Step-Let the Bands Play:
Fox-Trot-My Greatest Mistake... Harry Roy & his Band. Quick-Step-On the Sunny Side of the Street: Waltz-If Tears Could Bring You Back... Victor Silvester & his Ballroom Orchestra.
12.00 Midnight.-Close down.
oil was threatened by fire when incendiary bombs rained down in in a raid some time ago wins the Medal for Mr. George George Herbert Whelton, station super- intendent, London Powers Com- pany. Ltd.
While Mr. Whelton and his assistants were saving the pow- er station, fire bombs and high explosives were dropping all around and there was danger of the oil bursting into flames or that 22,000-volt electric current might become "live" and causeC disaster.
"My crew at going under a Whelton said,
the station kept heavy raid "Mr.
His "Flying Trapeze"
"The noise of the raid was so terrific that I did not realise that a bomb had fallen only fifty yards away, I did not even hear the explosion,
"The place caught Are We kept it in cheek and eventually put out the flames with vapour. We could not use water. because it would have affected the electrical equip- ment of the station,
"Next we found that some of the oil from a transformer had leaked and hud caught fire. This we also put out. Then down came more incendiaries--and the roof went up.
"I clambered up to the roof, forty feet above, with a foam ex- tinguisher. With the help of the roof was prevented others, the from becoming a real blaze and falling into the switch room be- low.
As an example of the cool- ness of his "arew." he said that while clambering on the roof he heard snatches of "The Man on the Flying Trapeze," coming from below.
The George Medal also goes to Sergeant David Lionel Grigg, of "P" Division, Metropolitan Police. After a German 'plane had crash- ed and demolished two houses,
occupants, he burying the moved four bombs from the de- bris so
could that rescue work proceed.
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