"Calling All Forces," a New BBC
Variety Show I AST year BBC decided that Ted Ray ~ would be as effective in raising the morale of overseas troops as he had been in raising a laugh, and began a variety series entitled Calling All Forces. The idea was to provide an entertainment programme common to the tastes of troops overseas and their families in Britain, and with Ray as M.C. the venture proved very successful. Now,’ New Zealand listeners will be able to increase that appreciation for Ted Ray which they gained from Ray’s a Laugh by listening to Calling All Forces on either of the four ZB stations each Sunday evening at 7.15, or 2ZA at 6.0. The first episode of this programme is scheduled to February 10. To aid Ted Ray in concocting a potent entertainment cocktail are singer Petula Clark, the Stargazers-with Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra-and the George Mitchell Choir, Additional. spice is added by the appearance at each performance of. a guest film star and guest comedian. Calling All Forces. features such talent as bill-board boys delight in terming a "star-studded show," with Derek Roy, of Variety Bandbox Honor Blackman, Arthur Askey, Moira Lister, ‘who stars in The Love of Four Colonels, PhyHis Calvert, Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne, of Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh, Max Wall, Cyril Fletcher, Ingeborg Wells, Charlie Chester, Alfred Marks, Susan Shaw, Belita, the Australian star Margaret Johnston. and many other celebrities in Britain’s entertainment world. Among New Zealand radio audiences Ted Ray needs no introduction, but Petula Clark, the resident singer on
Calling. All Forces, has not the reputation in this country which she deserves. Public ballot in England not so long ago rated her number one favourite among female television stars, while her own programme on television, «Pet's Parlour, gained her a recognition which her part in Calling All Forces sent to even greater heights. A favourite among the forces who heard the BBC’s special programmes for them, Petula will double Ted Ray’s chances of making Calling All Forces as popular in New Zealand as it was overseas.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 22
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345"Calling All Forces," a New BBC New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 22
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