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RADIO HERO TO SEE THE
12.18 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-
Rion.
12.30 p.m.-Humorous and Instrumental
Variety.
Humorous Sketch-Sandy, The Den- List (Thomson-Powell) .... Sandy Powell.
Organ-Dixon Flits, No. 10-Intro: After All These Years; Roses in December; That Old Feeling: SI-
KING FOR 2nd TIME
“OH, NORMAN, if only you could get another
very Moon & Golden Sands; Wst decoration so that we could go to see the King | again,” said Mrs. Nancy Jaeger, mother of stretcher
ling Gipsy; Blossoms on Broadway
....Reginald Dixon.
Comedienne -- Women In Love
Palmer with Piano. Guitar Feeling My Way:
Pickin
-
Rutherford & Wilesek) ... Buds party leader Norman Jaeger, of Lambeth, London, S.E., as they left Buckingham Palace last February. Norman had just received the British Empire Medal.
My Way (Lang & Kress)... Eddie Lang with Cari Kress (Guitar). Impressions--A Duck Entering Water: An Old Ford Car: Sir Malcolm Campbell's Blue Bird: Howling Dog: Trale Lond of Cattle;
Train. A Baby, London Under-
Norman smiled. "Not much chance of that," Smants In An Airport: An Express he said. He was wrong. For soon King George will pin on a bar to the medal on Norman's chest. And mother will be there. Norman Jaeger is the first man to win a bar to the B.E.M.
ground. A Chicken Freddy Dush. 1.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and Pro
gramme Summary
As with the original award, he won it for heroism in rescuing trapped air-raid victims.
1.02 2.1.Magyar) Imre and His Hun.
garian Oypsy Band. Cockchafer, Yellow Cockchafer
Biharl's Lament (Biharu; Pale Ye). low Rose; I Lțe You Beautiful Lady (Jeno Sandor); O Sole Mio (DI Capuai, La Paloma (Yradier). For nine hours he toiled with
other A.R.P. workers, to free men) 1,18 p.m.Songs by Tino Rossi (Tenor).
Bella Ragazzina, Lom Drs Guitares and women in the basement of al (Vincent Seatto). C'Est A Caps: - bombed lodging-house crawling Tango Chante (Will GRONZE Le through a tunnel made in the de- Chaland Dur Passe Valse Chante bris.
A Bixiol.
1.30 p.m.-Reuter
and Announcements.
Pressi Rugby
1.45 p.m.--A Sibelius Programme.
Romance, Op 24 No. 9
Joyce (Piano sulo)
Elleen
"It was a tricky job but } didn't do more than the other chaps," said Norman Jaeger to the "Daily Mirror."
R.A.F.'S GREATEST
FISHERMAN
As far back as the oldest sto- mach in a desert squadron of the R.A.F. could remember, It hnd had nothing in the way of foort "We expected the place to col that had not come out of a tim Symphonte Poem "Night-Ride & Sun-upse at any moment. But you
vise', Op 55 The BBC Sy
don't think of things like that at But, close at hand, the blue Med- phony Orchestra
the time. It's only afterwards you iterranean lapped the sands of the 2142 ilunoresque IV
Temianka think what a damn fool you've] North African coast. With a sud- (Violin) and The Temanka Cham- been!" ber Orchestra.
King Christian Suite -Musette: Her
Opera Royal
ceuse
Orchestra, Stockholm. 2.15 p.m. Close down
6.00 p.m.Indian Progranine
Houst
6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions
6.47 p.m.-Essio Ackland (Contralto) and The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra. "Masaniello” Overture (Auber)
"It Can't Be Real”
Norman's mother said: "I'm nut brave myself. I hate the noise of the guns."
"It's wonderful to think I may see the King again," whe Bald, "Going to the Palaco is liko walking into а painting-you think it can't be real."
den flash of insight, one or two of the more astule minds grasped the fact that this blue water, Mus- sulini's very own Mare Nostrum, could solve the problem of gastro- nomic monotony.
Fish! Lashing., of fish, un the doorstep so to speak. Grilled soles for breakfast. Lobsters for lunch. Herring, cod, turbot, prawns thei Glyn-maybe even a caviar-stuffed stur- Mobile geon and an occasional turtle for M.B.E., the soup. All they had to do was Clarke, to get a few lines and pull the
The BB.C. Symphony Orchestra. Here In The Quiet Hills (Carne);
Whatever Is. 15 Beyt (Lohr) Essle Ackland with Orchestra.
Norman's companions in Marche Slave, Op. 31 (Tchaikovsky) The BB.c. Symphony Orchestra.
rescue were Dr. Harold Song Of Sleep (Somerset).... Essie Jones, of the American
Ackland with Orchestra
Unit, who receives the Menuetto and Tris (3rd Mov from and Mr. Wilfred John
Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 Lambeth stretcher-bearer ser- tish out of the sea. -Beethoven). The B.B.C. Sym- geant, who gets the British Em-
phony Orchestra.
7.20 p.m.-Rachmaninoff-Concerto No. pire Medal.
3 In D Minor, Op. 20.
Ist
They got the lines, made hooks, opened tins for bait and fished as-
Mov Allegro: 2nd Mov: Inter- Grade Four-Wins G.M.siduously, with watering teeth,
mezzu: Adagio: 3rd Mov: Allegro
Sergel Rachmaninoff (Plano) & The Philadelphia Orchestra, 8.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.15 p.m.-London Relay War Com-
mentary,
8.25 p.m.-London Relay "Listening Poal". Exammation of Points in Daily German Propaganda 8.30 p.m.--Programme Summary. 8.32 p.m.-The London Piano Accordeon
Band and Lea Allen (Vocal). One Night In Monte Carlo (Silver, ¦
Sherman & Lewis); There'll Never Be Another You (Harry Woods), The London Piano-Accordeon Band, Dear Little Boy Of Mine (Brennan & Ball). Les Allen with Sidney Torch (Organ). Ait Old
Hawaiian Galtar (Lean & Towers); On The Beach At Ball-
for hours on end. The fish sniff-
Army doctors classed himed at the bait, sneered and swan Grade IV in health, unfit for war off. service. But he turned out Grade One in courage, and he has learn- ed that he had won the George Medal for heroism in an air raid.
It
was therefore somewhat lough on the fish that an R.A.F. V.R. Officer, a one-thine Kenya gold miner, was working nearby, He is Thomas Denholm, 29, a blasting trenches out of the rock docker, who lives with his wife with H.E. "Fish?" he said, "I'll and three children in Carnoustie get you some fish." Street, Glasgow.
His daring rescue of three Next day he was seen walking women and a man from the up-down to the beach with a num- per floors of a blitzed building ber of beer bottles in his hand was made
air and a posse of stout swimmers at during a heavy
his heels. The bottles contained raid on Clydeside,
H.E. und fuses. Denholm chuckled when he got wards there was a dull rumble, Shortly after- Ball (Sherwin, Silver & Meskili) the official announcement of his the sea heaved slightly, the swim- The London Plano-Accordeon Band. Secin' Is Believin' (Adams & Ager); award, "The Army turned me
Rehearsing A Lullaby (Sigler, Good down as unfit," he said. hart. Roffman). Les Allen with they will be wanting to send me Carroll Gibbons (Piano) & his Boy my papers all over again."
Friends.
Let The Curtain Come Down (New-
man)....The London
deon Band.
Piano-Accor-
9.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and An-
nouncements,
9.02 p.m.--Studio-"To-night Wo Pra-
sent" A Review of New Records, 9.48.10.00 p.m.--News in. French (on
Short Wave only).
9.46 p.m.-Concert Waltzes.
Flattergeister (Fickle Fancy): Dell- rien (Jos, Strauss, arr. Hohno).... Orchestra Mascotte,
Blossom Dreams....Orchestra Mas-
cotte,
Hydropathen Waltz (Jos. Gungi)..........
Vienna Boheme Orchestra,
10.00 p.m.London Relay-The
and News Commentary.
10.15 p.m.-Dance Musio,
News
V
"Now
HOW THEY "USE THE TOOLS"
Civilian workers at an R.A.F. maintenance unit miles from the nearest town had a "red letter" two D.F.C. day recently when
in and mers plunged
returned with shoals of stunned Ush in their arms.
There was fresh fish for every- body that night. The toast in the Mess was:
"To the greatest fisherman the |R.A.F. has ever known."
PHONE GIRLS HAVE DAY BLACK-OUT
Many of the 500 telephone girls fighter pilots visited them and at the Birmingham Exchange Slow Fox-Trot-Chez-Moi; Quick-Step talked of their combats with the the biggest in the country-com-
-Aħgry.......... Oscar Rabin & his Strict | Hun.
plain they are losing their com- Tempo' Dance Band.
One of the pilots told the work-plexions because their room
is Fox-Trots-Song Of The Wanderer ers that his Spitfire was damaged blacked-out day and night,
(Where Shall I Go?); South Ram-when on the ground and needed part Street Parade....Bob Crosby, & his Orchestra.
a new wing and undercarriage. In one day over ten girls rè- · Tangos-Elegante Papirusa; Malin and other parts. The maintenance ported "sick."-
conia...,Bernado Alemany & his units carried out the work quick- Orchestra..
ly enough to enable him a few "We never see the sun," one Fox-Trot-Bouncing The Black-out.... hours later to go over Holland girl told the "Daily Mirror" "We Barney Bilbraith & his Coconut and "do a little job". What he do an eight-hour shift and some- did not tell his hearers was that times longer. The blinds always Spending Christmas With The Old Folks; Slow Fox-Trot that "little job" gained him the remain drawn. -There'll Come Another Day... D.F.C. he was wearing. It result-|!
Grove Quartet. Fox-Trof—I'm
Swing Fox-Trot-Don't Fall Asleop
Artle Shaw & his Now Orch,
1
Sydney Lipton & his Grosvenor ed in the destruction of two Hun' “We have to sit under blazing House Dance Orchestra.
bombers.
arc lamps all day. Last week The other visitor, whose D.F.C. one blind was pulled up for a Fox-Trot-A New Moon And An Old has a bar to it, was, a night fight- short while and it was so strange Serenade: Waltz-The Shabby Dla ing pilot who had been destroy- to see light coming in that it Cabby....Billy' Colton & ́hin Band, ing Huns at the rate of two a temporarily 'blinded' me. Fox-Trot You Never Miss The Old night. He has ten・ "certainties"
Faces (Till You're Far Away From to his name. He told how his "It would be easy for some- Home) Quick-Step-It's A Lovely machine was badly shot up but he one to go round in the morning Day To-morrow...Jack Hylton & managed to land it and, in the and pull up all the blinds, but twinkling of an eye" almost, the apparently the heads here thinks new parts were there and fitted they must be too busy to do
this." and he was in the air, again,
his Orchestra.
11.00 p.m.-London-"War
dante".
11.15 p.m.-Close down.
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