and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

A piano group played by Israel Hoffman
Scherzo in E minor
Song without words (Duetto)
Kondo Capriccioso

7.30 Physical exercises for younger women
7.40 Physical exercises for older men
7.50 am Interlude

A thought for today

and summary of today's Home Service programmes -

A weekly guide to the foods that are the cheapest and best at the moment by D. L. Crimp , a hotel manager

Gramophone records of tunes we whistled and sang a year or two ago

played by Gwynneth Trotter (violin) and Renee Sweetland (piano)

Conductor, W. Foster
Coal workers are renowned for the quality of the bandsmen they produce, and the Grimethorpe Colliery
Band is a first-class example of such a combination that can hold its own with the best. All the players are underground workers, and have been recruited from far and wide to make this excellent ensemble.

Idris Davies

from page 21 of ' New Every Morning '

Directed by Jack Hardy
Songs without Words
(Little Orchestrations by Jack Hardy )

11.0 Music for every day (Ages 9-15)
The adventure of music
1—' We prepare for the journey: We test our ears'
Ronald Biggs
11.20 Interlude
11.25 English for under-nines
(Ages 7-9)
Ten-minute tales by Rhoda Power
11.35 Interlude
11.40 Senior geography (Ages 11-15)
' The Far East' planned by E. G. R. Taylor
China-2: A Northern village '

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte

with Charles Penrose, Chick Farr and partner, Beryl Beresford and Leslie Hinton, Ronnie Hill, Doris Nichols
The BBC Revue Orchestra
Conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Presented by David Porter

Folk-song settings sung by Flora Nielson (mezzo-soprano)
German:
Die Sonne scheint nicht mehr (No longer shines the sun)
In stiller Nacht (In silent night)
Da unten im Tale (Down yonder in the valley)
Mein Madel hat einen Rosenmund
(Red as roses are her lips)
Vor dem Fenster (By the window)
Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy songs):
He, Zigcuner (Ho, Gypsy!) Hochgethurmte Rimafluth
Lieber Gott , du weisst (Dear God,
Thou knowest)
Kommt dir manchmal in den Sinn Rothe Abendwolken Zieh 'n am
Firmament (Red evening clouds float along the firmament)

2.0 Nature study (Ages 9-12)
Round the countryside
' Bird nests'
David Lack
2.15 Interlude
2.20 Physical training (Ages 9-12)
(for use in classrooms)
Edith Dowling
2.35 Interlude
2.40 British history (Ages 11-15)
' Britain finds herself ' planned by Edith Macqueen
' Factories'
Phyllis Bentley

at the BBC Theatre Organ

(A recording of last night's broadcast in the Forces programme)
F. H. Grisewood brings to the microphone people in the news, people talking about the news, and interesting visitors to Britain

' Budget for a wartime bride '
Mrs. Alison Settle

Leader, Harold Fairhurst
Conductor, Richard Austin
Nina Milkina (piano) from the Pavilion, Bournemouth
NINA MILKINA AND ORCHESTRA
Piano concerto in G (K.453) Mozart
1 Allegro. 2 Andante. 3 Allegretto -Presto
ORCHESTRA
Tone poem: From Bohemia's woods and fields.............................Smetana

Ynghyd a sgwrs, ' Ar y Cyfandir' gan David Raymond

gan Alun Oldfield Davies
A Wrandawa ystyried
A ystyrio, atebed

5.20 ' The Round Stone ': a story by Roger Manvell
And some songs by Eileen Vaughan
5.45 The Farmer
Here is John Morgan , M.P., to give you his monthly talk on country matters

' Cropping the counties '
Anthony Hurd
Many listeners will remember Anthony Hurd 's talk in February on ' Ploughing the Counties ', which he gave on his return from visiting many of the County War Agricultural Committees. Now this well-known broadcaster and Agricultural Correspondent of The Times, who is on the staff of the Ministry of Agriculture, is to give listeners the sequel-' Cropping the Counties '.

from the Hippodrome, Boscombe

Spring, 1940
Written and produced by Francis Dillon
One of the speakers in this programme, in which farmers themselves will tell you of the countryside and of their problems and achievements in the critical spring of this year, made the pertinent remark: There's a war on now and we'm all Fairy Princes, but 'tisn't so long since we was all Cinderellas.'
Among the farmers who will come to the microphone are such well-known names as A. G. Street , A. W. Ling , and Ralph Wightman.

(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
In 1854 Schumann told the twenty-two-year-old Brahms that it was his ' duty ' to write a symphony. Brahms set to work, but soon declared that the attempt was a miserable failure, for ' symphony is no laughing matter nowadays '. At last, after twenty-two more years of careful thought and experimenting, he completed his Symphony No. I in C minor which was hailed as a worthy successor to Beethoven's ' Ninth '. Hardly had the applause of the world of music died down when Brahms produced his Symphony No. 2 in D.
Although this latter symphony is conceived on just as big a scale as the C minor Symphony, the texture of the music is actually very much clearer, the melodies more cantabile in character, and the whole spirit of the music brighter-it has been called Brahms's ' Pastoral' Symphony.

Written and arranged by Mungo Dewar
Come and join the ' Funny Men' aboard H.M.S. St. George, not forgetting Shorty, Lofty, Pincher, Nobby, the Sergeant, and the Ship's
Band
The cast includes: Harry Hudson , John Rorke , Fred Gibson , Tommy Brandon , Fred Yule , John Duncan , Stearn Scott , Claude Pilgrim ,
Reginald Mitchell , Styx Gibling
The BBC Male Voice Chorus and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
Chorus arrangements by Doris Arnold. Orchestrations by Wally Wallond
Produced by the ' Old Salt', Harry S.
Pepper

An excerpt from
'UP AND DOING'
Presented by Firth Shephard , with dialogue by Douglas Furber and others, songs by Manning Sherwin and others
The cast includes:
Leslie Henson
Binnie Hale
Cyril Ritchard
Stanley Holloway
Patricia Burke and Carroll Gibbons and his Band
Produced by Leslie Henson and Robert Nesbitt
From the Saville Theatre, London

Address by the Rev. R. R. Roseveare ,
S.S.M.

Piano Quartet in A, Op. 26
1 Allegro non troppo. 2 Poco adagio. 3 Scherzo: Poco allegro. 4 Finale: Allegro played by The English Ensemble
Marjorie Hayward (violin) ; John Yewe Dyer (viola); May Mukle
(cello) ; Kathleen Long (piano)

with Evelyn Dall , Vera Lynn ,
Max Bacon , and Jack Cooper from the May Fair Hotel, London