and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

bursting with springlike records

at the BBC Theatre Organ Selection of Victor Herbert's melodies

Jean Oldaker (soprano)
Murray Davies (baritone)

and summary of today's Home
Service programmes

Leader, Laurance Turner
Conducted by Maurice Johnstone

Paul Shishkoff

A programme of records
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty British Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Felix Weingartner London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr Grand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Heger Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stokowski

from the Cathedral and Metropolitical
Church of Christ, Canterbury
Order of Service
Opening sentence
Exhortation, General Confession, and Absolution
Lord's Prayer and Versicles (Tallis) Proper Anthems (Pelham Humfrey) Psalm ii (B. Cooke )
First Lesson: Isaiah xxv , 1-9 Te Deum (Stanford, in F)
Second Lesson: Revelation i, 4-18 Benedictus (H. Skeats ) Apostles' Creed Responses Collects
Anthem: This is the day which the Lord hath made (Palestrina)
Bidding Prayer
Address by His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury
Hymn, Ye choirs of new Jerusalem
(A. and M. 125)
Blessing
Organist and Master of the Choristers, Gerald H. Knight

Conductor, Clifford Greenwood
Flyin

' The Empire '-Denis Saurat , Head of the French Institute

at the organ of the Granada,
Tooting, London

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell

(All arrangements by Frederick Kell )

' The Flower Garden '
C. H. Middleton

The BBC Orchestra
(Section E) Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Noel Eadie (soprano)
[Home Service continued overleaf

with Dorothy Carless

The BBC Midland Singers
W. K. Stanton (organ)
Conductor, Edgar Morgan from the Royal Institution for the Blind, Edgbaston, Birmingham
A brighter dawn is breaking
Come, ye faithful, raise the strain Glory to God
Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem Hail, Easter bright!
This joyful Eastertide

Songs of work, presented by Frank Phillips , with some gramophone records

playing a short programme of English pianoforte music

ynghyd a sgwrs, ' Rhwng Dau Feddwl' gan y Prifathro D. Emrys
Evans
(News and a topical talk in Welsh)

'A Lesson of Faith', the story of a caterpillar, a butterfly, and a lark, by Mrs. Scott-Gatty, told by David, followed by:

5.30 A Children's Service
from Redland Park Congregational Church, Bristol
Order of Service
Act of worship
Hymn: Christ the Lord is risen today (Cong. H. 121; A. and M. 131; Rv. C.H. 118)
Lesson: St. John xix, 41 and 42; xx, 1-18
Prayers
Hymn: Come, let us join our cheerful songs (Cong. H. 154; A. and M. 299; S.P. 472; Rv. C.H. 175)
Address by the Rev. J. W. Welch, Ph.D., Director of Religious Broadcasting
Hymn: Saviour, teach me, day by day (Cong. H. 728; S.P. 370; Rv. C.H. 437)
Blessing
Organist, S. Parker

' The Situation of the Churches '
The Rev. Nathaniel Micklem , D.D., Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, assisted by two anonymous speakers from Germany

A programme of melody arranged and presented by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC Theatre Organ

the man and his music
A programme of gramophone records presented by Count Alfred Hessenstein

from The Temple Church, London
Theme: Christ Triumphant'
6—' Over Death '
Organ Voluntary
8.0 Order of Service
Introit
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made,
Through the thick darkness covering every nation,
Light to man's blindness, 0 be thou our aid.
Thy Kingdom come, 0 Lord, thy will be done.
Amen.
Lord's Prayer and Versicles Psalm cxiii Lesson
Nunc Dimittis (Thalben-Ball, in C) Collects
Anthem: 0 God of truth (Darke)
(Words, A. and M. 513 ; S.P. 597 ; Rv. C.H. 531)
Prayers
Hymn: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
0 sons and daughters, let us sing (A. and M. 130 ; S.P. 143)
Address by the Rev. Canon Harold
Anson, Master of the Temple
Hymn: The strife is o'er, the battle done (A. and M. 135 ; S.P. 147 ; Rv. C.H. 122)
Blessing
Organist, G. T. Thalben-Ball

An officer of the Merchant Service makes the Easter appeal on behalf of the Voluntary Hospitals of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to ' The Combined Hospitals Appeal Fund', [address removed]

by Dvorak played by Frederick Grinke (violin)

A programme broadcast on Easter Sunday, 1940, in the faith and hope of Poland's eventual resurrection

Led by Louis Stevens
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Edith Coates (contralto)
(First performance)
'The Gate of the Year ' is a setting of the words spoken by the King at the end of his Christmas Day broadcast in 1939. Margaret Balfour will also be singing it, on Friday at 2.15, in the Forces programme.

Easter Day
' Alive for evermore '-1
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (A. and M. 125)
St. John xx, 11-23
The strife is o'er (A. and M. 135) Corinthians xv, 57

Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

in F, Op. 135 played by the Menges String Quartet-Isolde Menges (violin), Beatrice Carrelle (violin), John Yewe Dyer (viola), Ivor James (violoncello)
This, Beethoven's last quartet, was written in 1826 and is in five movements, of which the last was headed by Beethoven himself ' Der schwer.gefasste Entschluss '-' the resolution taken with difficulty '-and has as a sort of motto a little phrase under which the composer wrote the words ' Must it be ?-It must be '.
See ' This week's Radio Music p. 6