and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of H. Robinson Cleaver and Patricia Rossborough

A thought for today

Morning physical exercises for men

played by Tom Bromley

and summary of today's Home
Service programmes

at the BBC Theatre Organ

Dorothy Donaldson (soprano)
Sydney Errington (viola)

'Natural feeding': by a doctor

Greenwich :
THE DAILY SERVICE from page 21 of ' New Every Morning '

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack

at the organ of the Paramount Cinema,
Newcastle-on-Tyne

Talks for sixth forms (Ages 9-12)
Questions of Empire
' Politics and Commonsense '—I
By the Master of Balliol

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
A Gilbert and Sullivan Half-Hour
March of the peers (Iolanthe)
Overture: The Yeomen of the Guard
Selection: Patience
Cacliucha (The Gondoliers)

with Diana Clare , Ronnie Hill Billy Ternent and his Orchestra
Continuity written by Peter Dion
Titheradge
Produced and. compered by Reginald Smith

The BBC Midland Singers
Conductor, Edgar Morgan

A Lightning Programme of Contrasts

Devised and written by Ernest Longstaffe and introduced by Betty Huntley-Wright with Sidney Burchall (baritone), Jack Warman ('sacked again'), Peter Valerio (accordion) and Collinson and Breen in another argument
The BBC Revue Orchestra
The show produced and conducted by Ernest Longstafle

Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan

presented by Sandy Macpherson at the BBC Theatre Organ
There are many of the popular classics that have little tales connected with them and their origin. Here are just a few, together with the stories of their birth.

Winifred Small (violin) ; Kathleen Moorhouse (cello) ; Maurice Cole
(piano)

Greetings from Moscow Bihari Verbunkos Armenian dance
Rumanian folk songs Faded lilac
In the Caucasian camp
Enough sadness and tears Hungarian folk songs
(All the above traditional items arranged by Yascha Krein )
Yascha Krein , Russian-born, has been playing -in this country for thirty-five years. He played in the old Queen's Hall Orchestra under Sir Henry Wood , and led the Russian Imperial Orchestra, which played at a well-known West-End hotel from 1910 to 1921.
It was here that he discovered that English people have a love for Hungarian Gypsy music and Russian traditional music. His orchestra, which consists of three violins, cello, bass, piano, piano-accordion, and cimbalom, is noted for the gay, light-hearted character of its music.

Ralph Lynn with Bertha Belmore and Charles Heslop in extracts from
'NAP HAND' by Vernon Sylvaine and Guy Bolton now being presented by Firth Shephard at the Aldwych Theatre,
London
Production by Bruce Belfrage

Some unusual records
Presented by Manoel Braune

(News in Welsh)
[Home Service continued on p. 40

Ymddiddan gan Tom Jones
(A gardening talk in Welsh)

5.20 'Out-of-Doors'
Six musical pictures composed for the very young by Sir George Henschel , presented by his daughter,
Helen Henschel
5.30 The Railway Children '
A dialogue story by Audrey Lucas , adapted from the book by E. Nesbit
Part 4-' Perks has a birthday ' with Rosamund Barnes ,
Audrey Johnson , Valerie Larg

with James Moody

A fortnightly programme reflecting the life, the song, and the story of the people of France

followed by Scottish and Northern
Ireland Announcements

The forty-eight preludes and fugues of Johann Sebastian Bach -11 played by Lucille Wallace (harpsichord)
Prelude and Fugue in D sharp minor
(Book 2, No. 8)
Prelude and Fugue in C (Book 2,
No. 1)
Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor
(Book 2, No. 18)
The next recital in this series will be on Friday, April 5, at 7.20 p.m.

The Changing Face of Russia
1—' The social and cultural background of the Revolution'
Nicolas Zernov , D.Phil., School of Slavonic Studies

or ' Panic in Paraphernalia '
A piece of nonsense for all children under a hundred, by Gordon Crier , with music by John Morley and Michael North
2—' The Good Fairy takes a hand '
Cast
The Revue Chorus, and augmented Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Orchestrations by Freddie Chappelle
Production by Gordon Crier

(in two movements) played by The BBC Orchestra
(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult

A talk by ' Onlooker '

The third of a new series of musical programmes devised by Leslie Baily telling the story of famous stage successes and how they were written and produced
No. 3—
'THE CO - OPTIMISTS '
The story behind the show will be told tonight, in person or in special recordings by Phyllis Monkman
Stanley Holloway
Davy Burnaby
Elsa Macfarlane
Harry S. Pepper and others associated with the production
The BBC Chorus and the Augmented
BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Shadwell
Radio script by Gale Pedrick
Production by Ronald Waldman
It was in 1920 when he was acting with Leslie Henson at the Winter Garden in A Night Out, that Davy Burnaby conceived the idea of founding the Co-Optimists.
They opened at the Royalty in 1921 — Phyllis Monkman ,' Betty Chester , Elsa Macfarlane , Babs Valerie , Melville Gideon, Laddie Cliff, Gilbert Childs , Bert Hedley , and Davy himself-and they appeared in London at one theatre or another for the next six years. They were the first concert party ever to broadcast.
See the article on the series ' The
Story behind the Show by Gale Pedrick on page 10.

The Littlest Revue
Produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall

Adapted by M. H. Allen from a story by Somerset Maugham
Produced by Val Gielgud
Principal characters
Ashenden, a writer and secret agent ; R, his superior in the Secret Service ; Two Swiss detectives ; Baronne de Higgins ; Prince AH ;
Mustapha Pasha , his secretary ; Miss King
Scenes: London and Geneva
In the modern theatre Ronald Squire stands alone in the portrayal of the cynical man-of-the-world type of part in which Charles Hawtrey excelled. In a Hawtrey part, since Hawtrey's day, Ronald Squire has had no rival. Who else in the theatre has his subtlety, his perfect timing of laughs, his finesse, and polish ?
He is notable as an interpreter of Somerset Maugham, and his broadcasts as Clive Champion-Cheney in The Circle in 1935, and as Charles Battle in The Breadwinner in 1936 will long be remembered.

in a piano recital