and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

A weekly ration of records made by America's Crooner Number One

Exercises for men

A thought for today

followed by Programme Parade
Some details about today's programmes

A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Edna Thorpe

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

Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan

News commentary and interlude

from p. 25 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 46 of ' Each Returning Day'

(Mary Pollock and Dorothy Paul ) with Dorothy Parsons at the piano

Talks'by experts on making the best of foodstuffs in season

with his Band

(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult

A wartime picture of a village in a Lakeland valley by George E. Spencer

No. 16: Roy Barbour
The interviewer, Wilfred Pickles
Produced by Richard North

A recording of last Saturday's broadcast by Raymond Gram Swing

The Trout ' Quintet
(in five movements) played by The English Ensemble-Marjorie Hayward (violin) ; John Yewe Dyer (viola) ; May Mukle (cello) ; Kathleen Long (piano) ; and Herbert Lodge (double-bass)

A short story by L. A. G. Strong , read by the author

at the theatre organ
Banner's Barrage
Gordon Banner began to play the organ at the age of fourteen, receiving tuition from his uncle, the late Alfred Banner , who was organist and choirmaster of the parish church of Tipton, Staffs.
It was Reginald Dixon who introduced him to the cinema organ in 1929, and in 1930 he went to America and made the acquaintance of Jesse Crawford. He appeared as guest organist at various cinemas in the U.S.A. In this country he has held appointments at the Oxford Ritz, the Hammersmith Commodore, and the Manchester Odeon.

played by Jack White and his Collegians

from a West-Country cathedral
Order of Service
Versicles and Responses Psalm cl
First Lesson: Isaiah xii
Magnificat (Wood in C minor)
Second Lesson: St. Matthew xii,
34-40
Nunc Dimittis (Wood in C minor) Creed and Collects
Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord
(Redford)
Prayers
Hark! a herald voice is calling (E.H.5)
Blessing

A sentimental interlude of music and songs featuring ' her ' name
The players: Fred Hartley and his
Music
The singers: David Lloyd and Alan Kale
The programme presented by Doris Arnold

played by Maria Donska

ynghyd a Sgwrs ar Bwnc y Dydd
(News and a topical talk in Welsh)

(Welsh Children's Hour)
Nadolig Hen
Rhaglen gan Rhys Dafys-Williams
Bydd Gruffydd Bifan a Fanw Fach yn mynd a ni mewn dychymyg i Noson Lawen yn Ystradffin, hen gartref Twm Sion Cati.

5.30 ' Beating the black-out '— No. 3 by W. R. Dalzell
5.55 Children's Hour Epilogue

followed by National and Regional announcements

Things that need doing and ways of doing them
' Look out in the black-out'
The fourth talk in this series will be given by Edmund Hardy , the driver of a heavy lorry, who will discuss problems of black-out driving

The first part of the oratorio by Handel
A performance by the Huddersfield Choral Society
Chorus Master, Herbert Bardgett with
Janet Hamilton-Smith (soprano), Maud Heaton (contralto), Webster Booth (tenor), Keith Falkner (bass)
The Society's Orchestra
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conductor, Malcolm Sargent
From Huddersfield Town Hall
There are several reasons for the traditional popularity of Messiah in the North: first, the choruses offer a unique blend of opportunities for great team-work and, in the many magnificent runs and crescendos, for 'showing of '. Secondly, from the religious point of view the plain-spoken chapel-going North welcomes, perhaps subconsciously, the Protestant theology of the oratorio, the familiar words of which are all taken direct from the Bible.
Thirdly, the North likes it because it knows it so well and so thoroughly just in the same way that many thousands of people like Gilbert and Sullivan. It is said that familiarity breeds contempt, but it is impossible for anyone to have contempt for such a masterpiece as Messiah.
Part 2 of Messiah will be broadcast next Sunday at 4.15 by the Halle Society conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent.

A show for the Home Front with Gwen Lewis, Frederick Burtwell, Reginald Purdell, Sylvia Marriott, Joan Gates
Shelter marshal, Lionel Gamlin introducing Clarence Wright

Grattan O'Leary from Canada
(A recording)

A play by Hugh Stewart
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Characters
Nell Fouracres ; Jess Murdy , her sweetheart ; Mr. Fouracres, her father (a farmer) ; Mrs. Fouracres, her mother
The scene is laid in the Vale of Avalon, where the mist that rises round Glastonbury is known as the Lake of Wonder.

Trio (1924-25) for oboe, bassoon, and piano played by Horace Halstead (oboe), Gilbert Vinter (bassoon), Phyllis Sellick
(piano)
Francis Poulenc , who is now forty-one, is one of the most distinguished of modern French composers. In those chaotic days immediately following the end of the last war Poulenc made a name for himself as a ' futurist ' composer. He was a member of that famous band of young French modernists known as ' Les Six '.

A radio concoction
Book and lyrics by Muriel Levy
Music by Leslie Bridgmont with Doris Nichols , Gwen Lewis ,
Hugh Morton , Horace Percival
Produced by Leslie Bridgmont

and his Orchestra