and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Lucienne Boyer , the famous French soprano
Exercises for men
7.40 Exercises for women
A thought for today
and summary of today's Home Service programmes
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Helen Burke
sung by Carys Davies (mezzosoprano)
Recent recordings of popular hits
Introductory music
Order of Service
Theme': ' God and our friends '
Introduction
All people that on earth do dwell
(A. and M. 106 ; S.P. 443 ; Rv. C.H. 229. Tune: Old 100th)
Reading: Luke x, 25-37
Thy kingdom come, 0 God (A. and M. 217; Rv. C.H. 152. Tune: St. Cecilia)
Prayers and Lord's Prayer
Through the night of doubt and sorrow (A. and M. 274 ; S.P. 678 ; Rv. C.H. 214. Tune: St. Oswald)
Blessing
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conducted by Maurice Johnstone
News commentary and interlude
from p. 117 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 62 of ' Each Returning Day'
-played by Nancy Phillips
by a doctor
11.0 Music and movement for infants
Ann Driver
11.20 Interval music
11.25 For home listening
"Thuesday Island', by E. Arnot Robertson, in collaboration with Hannah F. Berry
The hurricane - first aid to the rescue
11.40 Talks for sixth forms
Ideas and what we have made of them
'The idea of political rights' (ii)
G.D.H. Cole
Phil Green (accordion)
Supported by Dennis Gomm (piano) and Sam Geldard (percussion)
A North-Country ' family party compare notes on their upbringing, their jobs, and their attitude to life
An ENSA concert for war workers with Talbot O'Farrell , Joe Murgatroyd , and Sidney Kyte and his Orchestra
from a West-Country concert hall
G. D. Cunningham (organ)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Leslie Heward
2.0 Travel talks
Canada. 3-'On the prairie
2.15 Interval music
2.20 ' If I were British '
A series showing the British people and their institutions as they might appear to a refugee from Germany
2.40 Senior concert lessons
Ronald Biggs
' Schubert and his music'
played by the BBC Military Band
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell
and his Dance Orchestra
a talk by Tawera Moana
played by Kathleen Moorhouse (cello)
Frank Merrick (piano)
Sgwrs gan E. Morgan Humphreys
(A talk in Welsh)'
Songs to help you along by Dr. Thomas Wood -2
5.45 John Morgan , the Farmer
followed by National and Regional announcements
A national magazine dealing with some of the things which are being thought, said, and done all over
Britain today
Introduced by Peter Fettes
A Scot's Variety with Adrian Audain (a song at the piano), Denis Emons (comedian), and a Variety orchestra, conducted by Ronnie Munro
8-'The writer as artist'
A discussion between T. S. Eliot and Desmond Hawkins
A conversation across the Ulster border
Produced by James Mageean
'You remember Mr. Leversuch? Well, somewhere in the six northern counties of Ireland he has a relation, a Mr. Maclever, who is also a member of the Home Guard-or, as it is called there, the Ulster Special Constabulary (Local Defence Volunteer Section)
A revue by Loftus Wigram and Douglas Byng with Frederick Gregory , Helen Hill , Graham Payn , Luanne Shaw ,
Guy Verney
The Dance Orchestra directed by Billy Ternent
Produced by Reginald Smith
A topical talk on subjects of the moment
Words by Nicholas Brady. Music by Henry Purcell
Kate Winter (soprano)
Enid Cruikshank (contralto)
Joyce Sutton (contralto)
Eric Greene (tenor)
William Parsons (bass)
Stanley Riley (bass)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Orchestra
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conductor, Sir Adrian. Boult
In seventeenth-century London festivities in honour of St. Cecilia's Day were carried out on a sumptuous scale on November 22. The company foregathered at St. Bride's Church, where a service was performed by the most skilled musicians in the town and a.sermon preached in defence of cathedral music, lately suppressed under the Puritan regime. The assembly then repaired to Stationers' Hall to hear the new ode composed in St. Cecilia's honour, after which they sat down to a magnificent banquet.
It was for this august occasion that Purcell composed his finest of odes for St. Cecilia's day. The poem, by Nicholas Brady , Chaplain to the Queen, gave ample scope for his unrivalled gift of musical illustration.
A reading in illustration of the discussion tonight at 7.40 p.m.
portrayed by the Chalumeau Ensemble
with Anne Lenner and Tony Morris
Richard Newton (harpsichord)
Rose Morse (soprano)
