and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Some records that he has made

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

Recent recordings of popular hits

Margaret Bissett (contralto)
Norman Stone (tenor) MARGARET BISSETT NORMAN STONE DIALOGUES:

at the organ of the Paramount
Theatre, Glasgow

from page 1 of ' New Every Morning'

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell

at the organ of the Granada, Tooting,
London

Leader, Laurance Turner
Conducted by Eric Warr

A talk by Alastair Dunnett

' The Small Pig Keepers' Council' by John Green and Cedric Drewe , M.P., Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture
John Green , who has put pig-keeping on the air and who himself is a breeder of Gloucester Old Spots, is to bring to the microphone the Chairman of the Small Pig Keepers' Council which was formed last November with Green as Vice-Chairman, with the slogan ' Save waste and make food ', and the following message from the Minister of Agriculture: ' I ask you if you can, keep a pig. If you already have a pig, then perhaps you can keep two.'
Cedric Drewe , M.P. and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith , will talk about the plans that have been made to encourage pig-keeping by householders and others.

Sonata in D for cello and piano,
Op. 58 played by James Whitehead (cello)
Norman Tucker (piano)

from the London Casino

The BBC Singers (A)
Margaret Godley, Margaret Rees, Joyce Sutton, Doris Owens, Bradbridge White, Martin Boddey, Stanley Riley, Samuel Dyson
Conducted by Trevor Harvey

1 - 'Call for an Author' by Lyn Durham
Scene: On a yacht at anchor
Characters:
Johnny Lee and the Seaman
2 - 'Big Moment' by Norman Holland
Scene: Andy Madox's dressing-room in the Marathon Stadium, immediately before the Rogers-Madox clash or the Lightweight Championship of the World
Characters:
Andy Madox, a boxer; Bert Reid, his masseur; Larry Green, his trainer; Robert Shearer, his manager; Susan West, his fiancee; Mrs. Madox, his mother

The plays produced by Cecil McGivern these two short plays have one thing in common - a first-class surprise ending. Call for an Author involves many more characters than the two who find themselves talking on board the yacht of the famous Playwright Russell Calaman. Through his talk with the old seaman whom he finds on board, the mysterious visitor, Lee, reveals some complicated issues in the playwright's past. Neither of the two is, however, all that he might have seemed on first acquaintance, and - well, look out for the surprise at the end.

Big Moment is quite a different kind of story. Here is Andy Maddox fighting for the lightweight championship of the world. In his dressing room his mother and his fiancee sit while the fight is going on, listening to reports of it from time to time from his masseur, Bert Reid. Whatever happens Andy intends to retire after this fight. It is his 'big moment', and he takes it with a vengeance - not that there is not more to this rather tragic little story than the mere winning of a big boxing match.

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
The 'Welsh' Symphony, No. 4 in B flat minor, was written in 1884 for the Philharmonic Society of London, of which Cowen was permanent conductor from 1888 to
1892 In many ways it is the best of his six symphonies. In four movements, the opening Allegro has vigour and a fine sweep of style, and the slow movement, a little gem of only a few pages, is deliciously fresh and subtly imaginative. Both the boisterous Scherzo and the virile Finale are typical of Cowen's melodic and fluent style.

A commentary, by Lance B. Todd , during the second half of the second final play-off for the championship

Ynghyd a gair am ' Yr Wythnos yng
Nghymru ' gan E. Morgan Humphreys
(News and a topical talk in Welsh)

Ymgom am waith beirdd gwlad, yn ddifri' ac yn ddigri', gan Meuryn a J. 0. Williams
(' Local poets': A discussion in Welsh)

5.20 ' The Boy with the Magic Ears', by Lorna Wood , told by Nan and Folk songs sung by the Three Semis
5.45 ' My Hobby-Cinematography'
Reginald Bartlett tells you about his hobby (which might be yours, too)

A recorded story of what has been happening on the Western Front
Recorded in France by the BBC
News Observers

A talk by Compton Mackenzie

For the seventh season and two hundred and twelfth time we silence the roar of London, and from its great crowds we bring to the microphone some. of the interesting people who are
IN TOWN TONIGHT' introducing
Personalities in every walk of life in interviews with Lionel Gamlin and Joan Miller —the Picture Page Girl
Flashes from the news of the week
Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan

including
Peggy Cochrane (the girl with the swing fingers)

(by arrangement with George Black ) from the Hippodrome Theatre,
Birmingham with Flanagan and Allen
George Moon and Dick Bentley
Tessie O'Shea and 'Youth takes a bow' with Bryan Michie

Listeners' Request Night with The BBC Theatre Chorus (trained by Charles Groves)
The BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Once again the Theatre Orchestra is going to play some of the many pieces that listeners have particularly requested

Evening prayers

(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Symphony No. 1, in E minor Sibelius