[78-L] Transcription info sought

[RUSSELL BARNES]

Hello all,

This week (here in the UK) I purchased - in a public auction house - twelve Radio transcription discs  17, 16 and 12 inch dia - all said to have originated in the BBC, record library London.  

They appear to be mainly direct cut to acetate and are in the region of sixty years old.   They've been in store for a considerable time and their playability is much in doubt.

One set of 17 inch (a 33 revs) is a programme - dated March 1945 - called 'Jazz is where you find it'.    Could this be a USA programme copied by the BBC.

Two 16 inch discs with a plain blue label has the letters W.O.R
across it and dated 10th January, 1946.  It has the programme Salute to Jolson  - on four sides.  These disc I assume are American.

Any one any ideas please ?.

Russ Barnes