and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Settings of five Elizabethan poems recorded by Mark Raphael
Oh the month of May Weep you no more
Take, oh take, those lips away 0 mistress mine
It was a lover and his lass

at the theatre organ

and summary of today's Home
Service programmes

The Flotte de Toulon Band and The Royal Marines Band (Plymouth)
(In collaboration with the Radiodiffusion Nationale Franchise)

from the King's Free Chapel of St. George within his Castle of Windsor
Order of Service
Confession and Absolution Venite
Psalms Ixi and Ixii
First Lesson: Isaiah lii, 13-liii, end Te Deum (Alan Gray , in G)
Second Lesson: St. Matthew xxvi
Benedictus (Roseingrave, in D minor) Creed
Versicles and responses Collects
Address by the Rev. Canon A. C. Deane , Chaplain to H.M. the King
Hvmn: Ride on! ride on in majesty
(E.H. 620 ; A. and M. 99 ; S.P. 137 ; Rv. C.H. 92)
Prayers Grace
Organist, William H. Harris

Well-known broadcasters read scenes from the novels which they have most enjoyed
This week's reading is from Jane Austen 's ' Pride and Prejudice ', and the reader is Janet Chance

or ' Vicious Verses on Prominent
People '
A parlour game supervised by Elwyn Evans

at the organ of the Dominion Theatre,
Tottenham Court Road, London
Three pieces by Coleridge-Taylor
1 Le caprice de Nannette (Petite suite de concert). 2 Valse de la Reine (Four characteristic Valses). 3 Military march (Suite: Othello)

with Percy Manchester

Conductor, Frederick Rogan

C.H. Middleton and the Mayor of Ealing, Councillor Willoughby Garner, M.B.E., J.P.

Words by Cardinal Newman from Colston Hall , Bristol
Mary Jarred (contralto)
Parry Jones (tenor)
Arnold Matters (baritone)
Chorus drawn from
The Bristol Choral Society
Conductor, Samuel Underwood
The Bristol Philharmonic Society
Conductor, Arnold Barter
The BBC Chorus
Chorus Master, Leslie Woodgate
The BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood
Part 1
See this week's Radio Music, p. 6

William Aspden

Part 2

A programme for St. Patrick's Day from Northern Ireland including
Irish music and songs and a conversation piece,
' The Bishop's Daughter '
Reconstructed from old diaries and documents by Richard Rowley
The artists include
The Irish Rhythms Orchestra
Conducted by David Curry
Derrick White , Cicely Mathews , C. K. Ayre , James Stewart , and Peggy Morton
Mary Johnston (soprano)
The Queen's Island Male Voice
Choir,
Conducted by John Vine
Producer, James Mageean

ynghyd a sgwrs gan y Prifathro Ifor L. Evans
(News and a topical talk in Welsh)

5.15 'The Three Shulers at
Port-na-Cloy ' by James Mageean
The three singing shulers, or tramps, visit an old fisherman on the Coimty Down coast, and sing their songs and hear the strange story of the Woman of the Sea
Those taking part are: Joseph Tomelty , Mary Black , W. R. Gordon , James Mageean , C. K. Ayre , Adelaide Beattie , George Beggs , James Johnston , William Broderick , David Curry , James Morrow , and E. G. Teare
5.45 The BBC Singers in an epilogue specially written for the Children's
Hour by Geoffrey

Wolfgang Friedmann, Lecturer in Law, University College, London; assisted by a former judge from one of the German People's Courts; a solicitor from Berlin (both speaking anonymously), and by Mrs. I. Litten
Listeners will realise that it is not advisable for Germans in this country who still have relatives in Nazi Germany to broadcast under their own names.

A programme of melody arranged, and presented by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC theatre organ

by Alwyn Whatsley )
Production by Howard Rose See the article on page 10

from Wesley College, Headingley,
Leeds
Theme—' Christ Triumphant'
5—' Over Sin '
Organ voluntary
8.0 Order of Service
Hvmn: Praise to the holiest in the height (M.H.B. 74 ; A. and M. 172 ; S.P. 625 ; Rv. C.H. 32)
Invocation
Lord's Prayer
Psalm lxxxvi, 1-11
Lesson: Romans vii, 14-25 Prayers
Hymn: One who is all unfit to count (M.H.B. 159; Rv. C.H. 406)
Address by the Rev. Principal
Vincent Taylor , Ph.D., D.D.
Hymn: of the depths I cry to thee (M.H.B. 359)
Blessirig
Organist, C. T. Day

An appeal on behalf of Missions to Seamen by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should he addressed to: Lord Chatfield, Missions to Seamen,[address removed]

singing French and Belgian songs

Extracts from the life in wartime of the Irish Guards, including recordings taken at the Depot, the Training Battalion, and Wellington Barracks by the BBC Mobile Recording Unit
With music played by the Band of the Irish Guards
The programme compiled by Stephen Potter

A programme in dialogue and music, recalling some of the successes of theatres that now no longer stand
Devised and edited by M. Willson Disher. Music selected by
Mark H. Lubbock
The singers: Nora Gruhn, Morgan Davies, Fred Yule
The players: Hazel Terry, Geoffrey Keen, Stephen Jack
Compere, Carleton Hobbs
The BBC Theatre Chorus
(trained by Charles Groves)
The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
The programme presented by Desmond Davis

Palm Sunday
' Rejected of men '
All glory, laud, and honour (A. and M. 98, w. 1, 2, and 4) St. John xix, 1-16
There is a green hill far away (A. and M. 332)
I Peter ii, 21-24

(All items arranged by Reginald King )

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
Mozart
Symphony in E flat (K.543)
I Adagio—Allegro. 2 Andante con moto. 3 Minuetto: Allegro. 4 Finale: Allegro Eine kleine Nachtmusik
1 Allegro. 2 Romanze. 3 Minuetto. 4 Rondo