This was one of the most prolific broadcasting periods for Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth. They appeared in separate broadcasts until January 1938 when they began to sing together. They were married on 5 November 1938. At the outbreak the war, Webster was engaged as a member of the staff of the BBC in their wartime headquarters in Bristol, but he gave up this staff appointment at the end of 1939.
This picture in 1938 (Radio Pictorial) shows James Dyrenforth and Sydney Jerome with Anne and Webster. They were preparing for a show on Radio Luxembourg.
4th January 1936
8.30 ROMANCE IN RHYTHM: Geraldo and his Orchestra (by permission of the Savoy Hotel. Ltd.), with Webster Booth, Angela Parselles, the Romantic Young Ladies, and the Top Hatters.
Sunday
6.0 Up North for Pantomime: Anne Ziegler, Principal Boy in Tom Arnolds Pantomime, MOTHER GOOSE at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool
13th January 1936
8.30 ROMANCE IN RHYTHM: Geraldo and his Orchestra (by permission of the Savoy Hotel, Ltd) with the Romantic Young Ladies, the Top-Hatters, Webster Booth, and Angela Parselles.
22nd February 1936
SONGS FROM THE SHOWS, NO. 42, Contrasting Composers 6: Franz Lehar, Howard Talbot, Nat D. Ayer, and Arthur Schwartz Finale; with W. H. Berry, Jean Colin, Webster Booth, Sylvia Cecil, Marjorie Stedeford, Fred Conyngham and the Three Ginx, the BBC Variety Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum: at the pianos, Harry S. Pepper and Doris Arnold; compère, John Watt.
26th February 1936
877 Kc/s Regional (342.1 M.)
8.15 THE OLD BALLAD CONCERTS - 6: Webster Booth (Tenor), Malcolm McEachern (bass), the Gresham Singersthe BBC Theatre Orchestra; the programme arranged and conducted by Stanford Robinson.
29th February 1936
10.0 The BBC Theatre Orchestra; Conductor, Stanford Robinson; Anne Ziegler (Soprano)
Regional
Saturday
8.30 Geraldo and his Orchestra, with Webster Booth, Olive Groves, Carlyle Cousins, the Romantic Young ladies, and the Tophatters, compered by Leslie Mitchell.
10th March 1936
Scottish National
8.30 ROMANCE IN RHYTHM: Geraldo and his Orchestra (by permission of the Savoy Hotel, Ltd); with Webster Booth, Olive Groves, the Radio Three, the Romantic Young Ladies, and the Tophatters; compered by Leslie Mitchell.
Anne sings 'A song in the night' (1936)
19th April 1936
8.0 Geraldo and his Orchestra will present another selection of ROMANCE IN RHYTHM, with Olive Groves, Webster Booth, the Carlyle Cousins, the Romantic Young Ladies, and the Tophatters.
Scottish National
8.0 ROMANCE IN RHYTHM; Geraldo and his Orchestra (by permission of the Savoy Hotel, Ltd.) with Olive Groves, Webster Booth, the Carlyle Cousins, the Romantic Young Ladies, and the Tophatters; compered by Leslie Mitchell.
6th June 1936
Aberdeen
Sunday
9.0 UP NORTH THIS WEEK: Anne Ziegler, accompanied by the Buxton Spa Orchestra: Conductor: Maurice Mies from the Pavilion Gardens, Buxton.
22nd June 1936
Geraldo and his Orchestra, supported by Olive Groves, Webster Booth, The Radio Three, etc., will give another selection of ROMANCE IN RHYTHM at 8.30.
8.30 ROMANCE IN RHYTHM : Geraldo and his Orchestra (by permission of the Savoy Hotel, Ltd.); with Olive Groves, Webster Booth, The Radio Three, The Romantic Young Ladies, and the Tophatters; produced by A W Hanson.
23rd July 1936
Geraldo and his orchestra come before the microphone again on the Scottish National wavelength at 8.0 with ROMANCE IN RHYTHM. This programme will be compered by Leslie Mitchell, and Esther Coleman, Webster Booth, the Radio Three; the Romantic Young Ladies will also take part.
6.0 ROMANCE IN RHYTHM with Geraldo and his orchestra, compered by Leslie Mitchell, with Esther Coleman, Webster Booth, the Radio Three, The Top Hatters, The Romantic Young Ladies, and Arthur Tracey, the Street Singer.
6th August 1936
10.5 The music of Jack Strachey: BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell; Anne Ziegler (Soprano); Cavan OConnor (Tenor); Gordon Little (Baritone)
18th August 1936
6.30 THE TUNE YOU HEARD: A Selection of Original Tunes from recent Midland Productions; presented by Martyn C Webster; with Marjery Wyn, Webster Booth, the Southern Sisters, and the Revue Orchestra, conducted by Reginald Burston, from Midland.
LOTS OF LOVE Autumn 1936
Radio broadcast. Anne Ziegler and Cavan O'Connor, with Adele Dixon, Greer Carson, Bruce Winston, Eric Portman.
22nd October 1936
At 6.40 the BBC Theatre Orchestra and Webster Booth will review A HUNDRED YEARS OF OPERETTA.
21st November 1936
A concert by The BBC Theatre orchestra (Conductors: Jean Gilbert and Harold Lowe) Tessa Deane (Soprano), Webster Booth (Tenor).
27th November 1936
Scottish
4.0 INCIDENTAL TO A PLAY: A Programme of Songs and Selections from the Legitimate Stage; devised by Douglas Moodie; Musical arrangements by Harry Bidgood; produced by William MacLurg, with Raymond Newell, Irene North, Webster Booth, Elsie French, Ivan Samson, and Douglas Moodie; Jack Clarke (Piano)
TV BROADCAST 1 December 1936, 9.45 10.00 pm.
BBC TV
Anne appeared with Gilbert Webster (xylophone).
9th December 1936
Scottish National
Regional
9.0 The BBC Theatre Orchestra conducted by Harold Lowe; Anne Ziegler (Soprano); Michael Collins (Violoncello)
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1st January 1937
8.45 GYPSY LOVE: Freely adapted for broadcasting from the English Libretto by Basil Hood: Lyrics by Adrian Ross; Music by Franz Lehar; produced by Gordon McConnel, with Maria Elsner, Heddle Nash, Helen Crerar (by permission of Sidney Carroll), Horace Percival, Webster Booth, Dudley Rolph, Ursula Hughes, Alfredo Tomasini, Doris Gilmore; Rae Jenkins (Violin Solos); the BBC Revue Orchestra.
9th January 1937
Tomorrow
At 6.30, No 11 of VICTORIAN MELODIES will be presented by Nora Groh, Webster Booth, and Appleton Moore, with the BBC Revue Chorus and Theatre Orchestra.
2nd February 1937
7.50 WILD VIOLETS; A Musical Comedy Operetta by Bruno Hardt-Warden; Music by Robert Stoltz; adapted for broadcasting from the English Version by Holt Marvell, Hassard Short, Desmond Carter and Reginald Purdell; produced by Martyn C Webster, with Webster Booth, Frank Drew, Gordon Little, Dorothy Summers, Vera Ashe, Marjorie Westbury, Mary Pollock, Elizabeth Mooney, Vivienne Chatterton,Ernest Butcher, John Lang, Sylvia Welling, Stuart Vinden, John Bentley, Barbara Helliwell; the BBC Midland and Revue Chorus; Hugh Morton (narrator) the Revue Orchestra, conducted by Reginald Burston from Birmingham.
9th February 1937
Scottish National
8.15 MASCULINE FAME ON PARADE. A Satirical Revue of Yesterdays Heroes; book and lyrics by Joan Young; music by Nene Smith; additional numbers by Ronnie Munro; produced by Douglas Moodie, with John Rorke, Webster Booth, Geoffrey Wincott, Max Kirby, Middleton Woods, Brough Robertson, Cyril Fletcher, Stanley Hoban, Commere, Joan Young; the BBC Variety Orchestra and BBC Male Voice Chorus, conducted by Charles Shadwell; Reginald Foort at the Theatre Organ; Rae Jenkins (Solo Violin); arrangements by Ronnie Munro
24 February 1937
I REMEMBER
Birmingham
Webster appeared with Marjorie Westbury in a revue, presented by Percy Edgar with BBC Midland Revue Chorus and Revue Orchestra, conducted by Reginald Burston.
25th February 1937
Later Webster Booth sings in a concert with the BBC Theatre Orchestra.
10.20 The BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Stanford Robinson with Webster Booth (tenor)
1st April 1937
7.45 THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER: A Comic Opera, adapted for Broadcasting from Stanislaus Stanges English Version ofthe Libretto by Adolf Bernauer and Leopold Jacobson; Music by Oscar Strauss; adapted and produced by Gordon McConnel, with Anne Ziegler, Gladys Parr, Betty Huntley-Wright, Horace Percival, Franklyn Kelsey, Dick Francis, Jan van der Gucht, the BBC Revue Chorus and the BBC Theatre Orchestra, Conductor Stanford Robinson.
3rd April 1937
Scottish National
Sunday
7.0-7.50 VICTORIAN MELODIES; NO 13: A Musical Sequence; produced and conducted by Mark H. Lubbock, with Webster Booth (Tenor), Appleton Moore (Baritone), the BBC Revue Chorus and the BBC Theatre Orchestra.
17th April 1937
Tomorrow
At 9.5 Heinz and Robert Scholz will give a recital on two pianos; after which Webster Booth will sing with the BBC Variety Orchestra.
9.40 The BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell; Webster Booth (Tenor) Arthur Sandford (Solo Pianoforte); Robert Hanlon (Solo Flute)
24th April 1937
Regional
Saturday
7.30 Concert by the Railway Clearing House Male Voice Choir; Janet Howe (Contralto): Webster Booth (Tenor); Ernest Lush (Solo Pianoforte); conductor, Stanford Robinson, from the Kingsway Hall.
14th May 1937
Scottish National Programme
Songs I like Webster Booth (tenor)
22nd May 1937
Tomorrow
Later Webster Booth and Harold Williams, with the BBC Theatre Orchestra and Revue Chorus, will present No 15 of Victorian Melodies.
Scottish National
Sunday
9.05 VICTORIAN MELODIES NO 15
A musical sequence produced and directed by Mark C Lubbock, with Webster Booth (tenor), Harold Williams (baritone) The BBC Revue Chorus and the BBC orchestra.
AMERICA CABARET AND BROADCASTS 1937
While Anne starred in Virginia, Webster did a few broadcasts with Will Rogers and sang at the Rainbow Room, New York.
20th September 1937
7.35 Webster Booth, with the BBC Revue Chorus.
24th September 1937
4.0 LIONEL AND CLARISSA, a Comic Opera in a Pastoral Setting; written in 1768 by Isaac Bickerstaff; music by Charles Dibdin; adapted for broadcasting by Ursula Branston, music arranged by Alfred Reynolds; produced by William MacLurg, with Arthur Fayne, Foster Richardson, Webster Booth, Gordon Little, Frank Drew, Brember Wills, Kathleen Burgis, Jessica Page, Barbara Cochran-Carr, Colleen Clifford; orchestra led by Victor Olof, conducted by Jack Clarke.
DANCING THROUGH, a non-stop pageant of popular music during the past 36 years, will be presented by Geraldo and his orchestra with Anne Ziegler, Lily Morris, Eve Becke, Monte Rey, and others supported by the BBC Revue Chorus.
30th September 1937
Scottish National
10.30 The BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell; Webster Booth (Tenor); Robert Hanlon (Solo Flute)
23rd October 1937
Tomorrow
At 9.5 Hella Langdon, Webster Booth, and the BBC Theatre Orchestra present HERO AND HEROINE songs and duets from famous operettas, after which Maggie Teyte will give a recital.
28th December 1937
Fred Hartley and his Sextet, Webster Booth (tenor). All arrangements by Fred Hartley.
THE VOICE OF ROMANCE
Webster appeared as the supposedly anonymous ‘Voice of Romance’ with Fred Hartley’s sextet. The sextet included Hugo Rignold (violin), George Melachrino (clarinet) and Fred Hartley (piano).
6th January 1938
Scottish
8.45 THE GEISHA, a broadcasting version of Owen Halls story of a Tea House, with some additional pidgin English by Clifford W Collinson: lyrics by Harry Greenbank; music by Sidney Jones; Adapted and produced by Gordon McConnel, assisted by Rex Haworth, with Huntley Wright, Fred Yule, Lawrence Baskcomb, Colleen Clifford, Ewart Scott, Arnold Matters, Gladys Young, Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth, Billie Baker; The BBC Revue Chorus and the BBC Theatre Orchestra; Conductor, Harold Lowe.
8th January 1938
Scottish National
Sunday
9.30 HOLIDAY IN EUROPE; A pot-pourri written for broadcasting by Julius Buerger; Gaby Valle (Soprano); Webster Booth(Tenor); Rae Jenkins and his Schrammel Quartet: The BBC Chorus; The BBC Theatre Orchestra: produced and conducted by Stanford Robinson.
26th January 1938
Scottish National
7.15 Variety: Clarkson Rose (Comedian); Webster Booth and Anne Ziegler(Musical Comedy Duets); A Motoring Episode by Charles Hayes and George Barker; Mario de Pietro (Mandoline Banjo); Leonard Henry (Comedian); The BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell; compère, Charles Hayes.
14th February 1938
Scottish National
7.0 Monday at Seven, presented by Harry S Pepper, Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, with the BBC Revue Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Charles Shadwell.
26th February 1938
Sunday
9.25 THE LIFE OF OFFENBACH, a pot-pourri of music by Jacques Offenbach; devised by Julius Buerger; produced by Stanford Robinson, Geoffrey Dunn and Rex Haworth, with Ruth Naylor (Soprano); Jean Laird Bruce (Contralto); Webster Booth (Tenor) Richard Watson ((Bass); narration written and spoken by Wilfrid Rooke Ley; The BBC Chorus; The BBC Theatre Orchestra; Conductor, Stanford Robinson.
28th February 1938
Regional
9.15 I REMEMBER, presented by Percy Edgar; Marjorie Westbury (Soprano); Webster Booth (Tenor); The BBC Midland Orchestra and Singers.
7th April 1938
Scottish National
8.0 MILESTONES OF MELODY, Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra (by permission of the Savoy Hotel Ltd), presented by John Burnaby with Anne Ziegler, Monte Rey, Patrick Waddington, Eve Becke, Cyril Grantham, The Top Hattes and the Geraldettes, The BBC Male Revue Chorus, Al Bollington at the Theatre Organ.
9th April 1938
Sunday
9.35 OVERTURE AND BEGINNERS, PLEASE NO 2, a programme arranged and produced by Gordon McConnell in collaboration with Gwen Williams The Singers: Jean Colin (Soprano); Esther Coleman (Mezzo-Contralto); Webster Booth (Tenor); Arnold Matters (Baritone); Four Singers from the BBC Chorus; the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Harold Lowe.
21st April 1938
At 9.45 there will be a DANCE CABARET with Douglas Byng, Jane Carr, Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth, and others.
9.15 Dance Cabaret; Douglas Byng (stage and cabaret artist), Jane Carr (stage, screen and radio artist), Webster Booth (tenor), Anne Ziegler(soprano), Arthur Askey (comedian and compère); Billy Bissett and his Canadians with the Canadian Capers, and Alice Mann from the Royal Bath Hotel Ballroom, Bournemouth
27th May 1938
Reginald Foort, with Webster Booth and a variety orchestra, will present ORGANESTRA, which will be followed by Ben Frankel and his Orchestra in Rhythm Express.
6.40- ORGANESTRA: a programme for Theatre Organ and Variety Orchestra; presented by Charles Shadwell and Reginald Foort: Webster Booth (Tenor)
28th May 1938
Scottish National
9.5 THEATRE COMPOSERS (No 1) Lionel Monckton: The Man and his Music, a programme arranged by M Willson Disher; music selected by Mark H Lubbock; produced by Gordon McConnel; Singers, Dennis Noble, Betty Huntley-Wright, Anne Zieglerand Rae Jenkins Trio; The BBC Theatre Orchestra and the BBC Theatre Chorus; Conductor, Stanford Robinson; compere, Bertram Wallis.
15th June 1938
6.0 GEORGE EDWARDES: Part 1 The Govnor of the Gaiety, an illustrated biography compiled and written by SR Littlewood; produced by Gordon McConnel in collaboration with Mark H Lubbock, with Sir Seymour and Lady Hicks (Ellaline Terriss), Robert Nainby, Willie Ward, Horace Percival, Betty Huntley-Wright, Stuart Robinson, Anne Ziegler, Bertha Willmott, Denis ONeil; The BBC Theatre Chorus and The BBC Theatre Orchestra: Conductor Harold Lowe; compere, SR Littlewood. Should circumstances prevent Sir Seymour and Lady Hicks from taking part in the actual broadcast, their contributions to the programme will be recorded.
15th June 1938
Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra will be heard in MILESTONES OF MELODY at 8.0 on the Scottish National wavelength, with Anne Ziegler, Monte Rey, Eve Becke and Cyril Grantham.
Anne Ziegler on the cover of 'Radio Pictorial' (1938)
Scottish National
8.0 MILESTONES OF MELODY , Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra (by permission of the Savoy Hotel Ltd), presented by John Burnaby with Anne Ziegler, Monte Rey, Patrick Waddington, Eve Becke, Cyril Grantham, The Top Hattes and the Geraldettes, The BBC Male Revue Chorus, Al Bollington at the Theatre Organ.
25th June 1938
Scottish National
Sunday
9.5 THEATRE COMPOSERS, NO 2 FRANZ LEHAR, the man and his music: A programme arranged by M Willson Disher: music selected by Mark H. Lubbock, produced by Gordon McConnel, with Denis Noble, Betty Huntley-Wright, Webster Booth, Hella Langdon; compere Bertram Wallis: The RaeJenkins Trio: The BBC
Theatre Chorus and the BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Stanford Robinson.
27th August 1938
National
Sunday
11.30 Charles Ernesco and his Quintet, with Webster Booth
There are many of these programmes listed.
LANDMARK IN ENGLISH MUSIC (2) 6 September 1938 9.45 pm.
Birmingham.
Purcell 1688.
Webster Booth, with Marjorie Westbury, BBC Midland Singers and Orchestra and Margaret Ablethorpe (piano), presented by W K Stanton.
24th September 1938
9.5 THEATRE COMPOSERS, NO 3 ANDRÉ MESSAGÉR: The Man and his Music; a programme arranged by M Willson Disher, music selected by Mark H. Lubbock, produced by Gordon McConnel; The BBC Theatre Orchestra; Conductor, Stanford Robinson; Stella Andreva (Coloratura-Soprano), Webster Booth (Tenor), Morgan Davies (Baritone), Linda Parker (Soprano); Compere, Bertram Wallis, The Rae Jenkins Trio.
17th September 1938
Scottish National
7.30 FOORT-ISSIMO: Reginald Foort at the BBC Theatre Organ, with Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth; produced by Max Kester.
28th September 1938
Webster Booth sings with Charles Ernesco and his Quintet in the Scottish National programme at 6.25
8.0 COFFEE AND MUSIC: an after-dinner entertainment presented by Doris Arnold, with Margaret Eaves, Webster Booth and Allan Paul.
10.0 MOVIE MELODIES: a selection of songs from the films, presented by Roy Speer, with Betty Huntley-Wright, Webster Booth, Diana Clare, Sam Costa, with the BBC Revue Chorus, the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell.
19th October 1938
10.30 DANCE CABARET: Douglas Byng (Cabaret Artist); Webster Booth (Tenor); Oliver Wakefield (The Voice of Inexperience); Anne Ziegler (Lyric Soprano); Cliff Cooke (Compere); Dance music played by Billy Thorburn and his Music, with Eddie Guery and The Royal Bath Hotel Singers, from the Royal Bath Hotel Ballroom, Bournemouth.
28th October 1938
HUGH THE DROVER
At 7.0, HUGH THE DROVER, or LOVE IN THE STOCKS, a romantic ballad opera in two acts, by Harold Child and R Vaughan Williams, will be presented, Webster Booth taking the part of Hugh and Redvers Llewellyn that of John the Butcher.
THE CREATION 9th November 1938
Broadcast from Town Hall, Birmingham (from Webster's score)
26th November 1938
7.0 HUGH THE DROVER, or LOVE IN THE STOCKS, a romantic ballad opera in two acts; libretto by Harold Child: music by R Vaughan Williams; narration written by Wilfrid Rooke Ley, spoken by Kaye Seelyproduced by Stanford Robinson (in collaboration with Gordon McConnel, Rex Haworth and Charles Groves), with Samuel Worthington, Rose Alper, Gladys Palmer, Redvers Llewellyn, Webster Booth, Powell Lloyd, Robert Irwin, Stearn Scott, James Bond, Marjery Grant, Reginald Mitchell, John Hargreaves, The BBC Theatre Chorus; the BBC Theatre Orchestra; Conductor, Stanford Robinson.
23 December 1938
(668 Kc/s) Northern (449.1 M)
7.30 MESSIAH, the oratorio by Handel Part 1; The Hallé Chorus, chorus master Herman Brearley; The HalléOrchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent; Isobel Baillie (Soprano); Muriel Brunskill (Contralto); Webster Booth (Tenor); Keith Falkner (Bass), from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester.
9.5- During the Interval: The Messiah in the Industrial North, by WL Wilmshurst.
9.20pm MESSIAH, by Handel, Part 2. The Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent: Isobel Baillie (Soprano), Muriel Brunskill (contralto), Webster Booth(tenor), Keith Falkner (Bass) from the Free Trade Hall, Manchester.
31st December 1938
Saturday
12.30 12.45pm Gramophone records, Webster Booth (Tenor), Joan Cross (Soprano) with Chorus of Sadlers Wells opera.
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13th January 1939
Two hours will be occupied by the presentation of LAKMÉ an opera by Leo Delibes, with Webster Booth, John Hargreaves, Harold Williams, Hella Andreva and Mae Craven in the principal parts and Wilfrid Rooke Ley as narrator.
Scottish National
LAKMÉ, an opera by Leo Delibes, English version by Claude Aveling; narration by Wilfred Rooke Ley, spoken by Kay Seeley: produced by Stanford Robinson in collaboration with Gordon McConnel, Rex Haworth and Charles Groves, with Webster Booth, John Hargreaves, Harold Williams, Stella Andreva, Mae Craven, the BBC Theatre Orchestra; Conductor, Stanford Robinson.
9th February 1939
Scottish National
6.0 SCRAPBOOK FOR 1909, presented by Leslie Baily and Charles Brewer; Compere Patric Curwen, Producer: Charles Brewer. A programme in the Scrapbook series. Arthur Wimperis, ex-Inspector JH Jarvis, Miss Muriel Matters, Captain GP Philips; cast also includes Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Anne Ziegler, Ivan Samson, Horace Percival, Ernest Shannon, Eric Lugg, Bryan Powley, Johnnie Singer, and the recorded voices of Christabel Pankhurst and George Graves; Louis Bleriot (BBC disc); Cmdr Robert E Peary; Rt. Hon. HH Asquipth MP; Prime Minister in 1909 (all commercial discs). the BBC Revue Chorus and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Louis Levy.
18th February 1939
Scottish National
5.0 IVOR NOVELLO LOOKS BACK! A biography of his life in words and music; programme devised and written by Howard Thomas; orchestrations by Jack Beaver; interviewer, FH Grisewood: produced by Archie Campbell; among those you will hear are Ivor Novello, Mary Ellis, and Dorothy Dickson in a scene from Henry V; Madame Clara Novello-Davies, Peter Scott, Anne Ziegler, Gordon Little, Frank Bird and supporting cast; the programme will also include a short glimpse of the new Ivor Novello play, The Dancing Years, now in rehearsal. The BBC Revue Chorus and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell.
1st March 1939
Afterwards Norman Long, Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, among other artists, will be heard in the Dance Cabaret from the Grand Hotel, Torquay.
Scottish National
10.35 DANCE CABARET: Norman Long (a Song, a Joke and a Piano); Bennett and Young (Comedians); Anne Ziegler (the Lyric Soprano); Webster Booth (Tenor); Raymond Bennett (Compere); Harry Evans and his Band, from the Grand Hotel Torquay.
7th March 1939
8.0 GLAMOROUS NIGHT, a romantic play with music by Ivor Novello; lyrics by Christopher Vassal; orchestrations by Charles Prentice; radio adaptation by VC Clinton-Baddeley; produced by Hedley Briggs in collaboration with Mark H Lubbock and George Lestrange; technical production, Rex Haworth: Ivor Novello, Mary Ellis, Harvey Braban, Fanny Wright, Eric Anderson, Webster Booth as Lorenti, Robert Andrews, Minnie Rayner, Gerald Lawrence, Elisabeth Welch, Leo de Pokorny, and Eric Miklewood; The BBC Orchestra; Conductor Stanford Robinson
9th March 1939
There will also be a repeat performance of GLAMOROUS NIGHT, with Ivor Novello and Mary Ellis.
11th March 1939
Scottish National (261.1 M)
6.50 JOHAN STRAUSS, 1825-1899. A Pot-pourri by Julius Buerger; Gwen Catley (Coloratura Soprano); Hella Toros (Soprano); Nancy Evans (Contralto); Webster Booth (Tenor); Denis Noble (Baritone); Pianists:- Wilfrid Parry, Arthur Sandford; Rae Jenkins and his Schrammel Quartet, the BBC Theatre Chorus; The BBC Theatre Orchestra; Conductor, Stanford Robinson.
13th March 1939
Repeat of the Johan Strauss pot-pourri
18th March 1939
Among those appearing in MUSIC HALL at 8.0 are Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth and Leonard Henry.
Scottish National
8.0 MUSIC HALL, presented by John Sharman, with Anne Ziegler and Webster Boothin musical comedy selections; Yorky and Scotty, Al and Bob Harvey (Canadian comedians), Leonard Henry (comedian), Ted Ray (Fiddling and Fooling); Pat Hyde (Radios sweetheart); The BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
1st April 1939
On Saturday at 9.40 Olive Groves, Webster Booth and Arnold Matters will tell the story of the ballad.
9.40 Saturday at 9.40. THE STORY OF THE BALLAD, with Olive Groves, (soprano) Webster Booth, (Tenor) Arnold Matters, (Baritone) with the BBC Theatre orchestra. Programme arranged and conducted by Mark H. Lubbock.
Sunday. 9.45 Charles Ernesco and his Quintet, with Webster Booth
18th April 1939
7.45 GYPSY LOVE: Adapted for Broadcast from the English book by BasilHood, the original German libretto by A M Wilner and Robert Bodanzky; English lyrics by Adrian Ross; Music by Franz Lehar; Adaptation and production by Gordon McConnel, with Hella Langdon, BillieBaker, Dennis Noble, Rae Jenkins (Violin solos), Horace Percival, Webster Booth, Dudley Rolph, Evers, Kenneth Ellis, and MargaretSchlegel; The BBC Theatre Chorus and the BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Stanford Robinson.
Sunday
3.00 Orchestral and Vocal Concert; Excerpts from THE MAGIC FLUTE by Mozart; translation by EJ Dent; programme introduced by FH Grisewood, with Arnold Matters (Baritone); Lorely Dyer (Soprano); Webster Booth(Tenor); Norman Allin (Bass); Gwen Catley (Soprano); The BBC Theatre Orchestra; Conductor, Stanford Robinson.
16th May 1939
At 9.45 Webster Booth (Tenor) and Cyril Smith (Piano) take part in a Concert by the BBC Theatre Orchestra.
9.45 The BBC Theatre Orchestra: Conductor, Stanford Robinson: Webster Booth (Tenor); Cyril Smith (Pianoforte)
23rd May 1939
Archie Campbell presents FAREWELL TO JUAN, an improper story of four centuries, by Eric Maschwitz. The cast includes Dorothy Dickson and Richard Ainley.
8.00 FAREWELL TO JUAN , or LOTS OF LOVE, written by Eric Maschwitz, to music by Jack Strachey; produced by Archie Campbell; Players: Dorothy Dickson, Gibb McLaughlin, Elizabeth Maude, Richard Ainley, Ruth Midland; Singers: Heddle Nash, Anne Ziegler, The Cavendish Three; The BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Mark H. Lubbock, Rae Jenkins and his Schrammel Quartet, Alan Paul at the piano.
25th May 1939
Regional
9.0 Repeat of FAREWELL TO JUAN
CONCERT Friday in May 1939
Mansion House, Dublin. Webster was guest artiste at a concert which was broadcast on Radio Eireann.
RADIO NORMANDIE 18 June, 1939
Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, with George Formby, Tommy Handley, Jack Warner, Vic Oliver, Bebe Daniels, Leonard Henry, Olive Groves, Donald Peers, Phyllis Robins and Reginald Foort.
21st July 1939
DANCE CABARET with Webster Booth, Ted Ray, Beryl Orde, and C Denier Warren comes from the Polygon Hotel, Southampton, at 9.30.
Scottish National
9.30 DANCE CABARET : Ted Ray (Fiddling and Fooling); Webster Booth(Tenor); Beryl Orde (Impressions); C Denier Warren (Stage and film comedian); and Fred Ballerini and his Dance Band, from the Polygon Hotel Southampton.
26th August 1939
Scottish
9.50 The BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell, Webster Booth (Tenor)
30th August 1939
10.20 DANCE CABARET , with Warden and West; Fanny and Biddy (the Two Dames); Anne Ziegler (Lyric Soprano); Webster Booth (Tenor); Suzette Tarry (Comedy Cameos), and Harry Evans and his Dance Band, from the Grand Hotel, Torquay.
BBC, BRISTOL 3rd September to December 1939
At the outbreak of war Webster Booth was appointed to the BBC staff as singer, together with Tommy Handley, Vera Lennox, Ernest Longstaffe, Sam Costa, Charles Shadwell, Doris Arnold, Betty Huntley-Wright,Leonard Henry and others.
8th September 1939
7.10 Gramophone Records: Webster Booth, (Tenor); Patricia Rossborough (Pianoforte); Fred Hartley and his Quintet; Brian Lawrance; London Palladium Orchestra; George Thill (Tenor); The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
8.30 SING SONG, a programme of variety and community singing: produced by Ernest Longstaffe, with Leonard Henry, John Rorke, Gwen Lewis, Sydney Burchall, and Webster Booth and Betty Huntley Wright (duets), The BBC Revue Chorus, The BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Ernest Longstaffe.
11th September 1939
6.45-7.00 Gramophone Records: Webster Booth
8.30 VARIETY HALF HOUR. Presented by Archie Campbell, with Leonard Henry, Gwen Lewis, Arthur Sandford, Webster Booth, the BBC Revue Chorus, the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell.
18th September 1939
8.0 COFFEE AND MUSIC: an after-dinner entertainment presented by Doris Arnold, with Margaret Eaves, Webster Booth and Alan Paul.
23rd September 1939
7.15 THE BALLAD MONGER, with another batch of songs, old and new, presented by Martyn C Webster, with Sydney Burchall, Wynne Ajello, Esther Coleman and Webster Booth
27th September 1939
10.45 WHERE THERES A WALTZ! A cavalcade of waltz music old and new; programme presented by Ronald Waldman, with Margaret Eaves, Esther Coleman, Webster Booth and Dudley Rolph; the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell.
28th September 1939
7.45 SONGS FROM THE SHOWS, with Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge; Wynne Ajello; Webster Booth; Pat Taylor; Stanley Riley; and C Denier Warren; The BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell, The BBC Revue Chorus; compere John Watt.
29th September 1939
9.30 MOVIE MELODIES, a selection of songs from films, sung by Betty Huntley-Wright, Webster Booth, Pat Taylor and Sam Costa; The BBC Revue Chorus and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell.
2nd October 1939
7.0 30 MOVIE MELODIES , a selection of songs from films, sung by Betty Huntley-Wright and Webster Booth; The BBC Revue Chorus and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell.
5th October 1939
6.45 MUSIC FOR FILMS sung and played by Anne Ziegler, Heddle Nash, John Nash, John Stevens, and the BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Reginald Burston; descriptive commentary written by CA Lejeune, spoken by Cathleen Cordell.
8.0 SONGS FROM THE SHOWS, with Evelyn Laye, Webster Booth, Sidney Burchall, C Denier Warren, Doris Hare, and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell; the BBC Revue Chorus; Compere, John Watt.
10.45 A song recital by Webster Booth (Tenor)
6th October 1939
LOVE IN BLOOM, a programme of love songs sung by Webster Booth, Diana Clare, Betty Huntley-Wright, presented by David Porter.
14th October 1939
9.30 Geraldo conducting the augmented BBC Variety Orchestra in a programme of popular music, with Webster Booth (Tenor).
16th October 1939
3.30 SWEET SERENADE, presented by Douglas Lawrence, with Wynne Ajello, Webster Booth, and the Orchestra.
21st October 1939
Sunday
6.25 The BBC Variety orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell, with Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth, Charles Woodforde (solo Cello); Alf Lewis and Leslie Uzzell (solo trumpets); Arthur Sandford (solo piano)
21st November 1939
12.30 MUSIC IN THE MORNING, with Anne Ziegler, Webster Booth, Dorothy Carless, and the strings of the Revue Orchestra.
22nd November 1939
Wednesday
10.30 SWING SONG with AH Morgans Rhythmic Sextet, Webster Booth and the Three Minx
4th December 1939
Monday
3.0 LOVE SONGS sung by Webster Booth, Betty Huntley-Wright, Dorothy Carless, and Denny Dennis
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