Cheerful gramophone records

Conductor. Charles Shadwell , with Ronald Kay.

Records of Cole Porter 's ' Gay Divorce '

Duke Ellington and his Orchestra (recording)

for the Middle East Forces. Messages recorded by members of the Services tor their relatives and friends in Great Britain, introduced by Peter Haddon

Scottish Variety Orchestra (conductor, Ronnie Munro ), with Nancy Jenkins , Ann Rich , and Ian Gourlay.

Sunday Service from Bristol Cathedral, conducted by the Dean (Very Rev. Harry W. Blackburne , D.S.O., M.C.)

Introduced by Q. A. Husain. ' India Calling ' : personal messages from India to the members of H.M. Forces in Great Britain (by the courtesy of All India Radio)

Conducted by Lieutenant F. J. Harris , Director of Music, Grenadier Guards

Special BBC recording of the programme broadcast direct to North America, during the midnight break yesterday, from a factory somewhere in Britain.

and his Two Orchestras

with Horace Percival , Fred Yule , Dorothy Summers , Sydney Keith , Dino Galvani , Bill Stephens , Bryan Herbert , Jean Capra , and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Ted Kavanagh. Produced Jby Francis Worsley

with Mark Warnow and his Carnegie Hall Orchestra, and Tiny Hill and his Double Shuffle Beat, from the Carnegie Hall, New York City. Recorded in America by arrangement with the Special Service
Division of the War Department of the United States of America

and his Orchestra in ' Sweet and Lovely ', a programme of romantic melodies

Lord Glentanar introduces his personal preferences in Scottish song. Singers, Amy Fryers (soprano) and John Tainsh (tenor). At the piano, Ian Whyte.

Variety show by members of the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Sgt. Stan Shed-den and the Canuck's Orchestra. Cpl. Bill Smith ; L.A.C. Ted Hockridge ; Gunner Carl Asplund , and a fun department presided over by Cpl. Ernie Holden and Pte. Chick Zamick. Master of Ceremonies, Gerry Wilmot. Produced by the London office of the CBC

Debroy Somers and his Band

Reg Leopold plays popular light pieces written or transcribed for the fiddle

in aid of the Merchant Navy Fund, featuring Jack Payne and his Orchestra with artists, and Robert Easton. From the Guildhall, Southampton

with spontaneous answers to ' Any Questions ? ' A younger Brains Trust, with four newcomers answering listeners' questions with one of the best-known members of the Brains Trust : C. E. M. Joad , Barbara Ward , Arthur Elton , Dr. Dudley Stamp , and Stephen Spender. " Question-Master, The Marquess of Donegal!. Producer, Howard Thomas.

Members of the Fighting Services, and of the Home Front who work behind them, come to the microphone with their choice of gramophone records. Introduced by Hamilton Kennedy

Alan Dent

No. 39—' Young Allies—Manchester Grammar School and Weequahic High School, Newark, New Jersey '. This programme is the third in the series to be broadcast from both sides of the Atlantic. The first half, broadcast from Britain, tells the story of the Manchester Grammar School, one of the oldest and also one of the most progressive schools in the country. English Narrator, Wilfred Pickles. Written by L. du Garde Peach. Produced by Brigid Maas. America replies with a picture of a school in- one of its important industrial towns — Weequahic High School, in Newark, New Jersey, just across the Hudson from New York. American Narrator, Alan Lomax.
Produced by John Becker. Broadcast simultaneously in the Forces programme and to the United States, in collaboration with the Columbia
. Broadcasting System of America

Programme on the General Staff, in training and in action. Written by Stephen Potter with the co-operation of the War Office and officers of the British Army. Narrator, Howard Marshall. (Repeat of the recorded broadcast on Tuesday, August 31)

Review of the week's news

with George Betton , Nosmo King , Dennis Noble , Nat Mills and Bobbie, and Harry Korris as ' Mr. Lovejoy ', assisted by Cecil Frederick (' Rams-bottom ') and Robbie Vincent (' Enoch '). Happidrome Orchestra and Chorus. Show produced and conducted by Ernest Longstaffe .

with orchestra conducted by Peter Yorke. Produced by Reita Hendry

Albert Sandler and the Palm Court Orchestra-, with Thomas Criddle , boy-soprano, in a programme of the kind of music heard in the Palm Court of your favourite hotel in the days before the war. Programme produced by Fred Hartley and Douglas Lawrence

followed by a postscript

Theatreland's tribute to the Forces everywhere-a programme sponsored by every branch of the entertainment world and produced with the co-operation of the Theatres War Service Council
The programme, produced by Michael North , comes from a theatre in the heart of London and is transmitted throughout the world-wide network of the BBC

' Thy Kingdom come '. The day thou gavest (A. and M. 477); from Isaiah 42 and 43; Hark the glad sound (A. 'and M. 53) ; St. Mark 1, vv. 14-15

This evening you are taken by the magic carpet of records on a journey, thrbugh time and space to a ' Barbecue ' and a ' House-Moving '. Verse extracts read by Joseph Macleod , and programme edited by Frederick Piffard

Richard Crean and his Orchestra.