and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Tommy Handley, radio's own comedian

Exercises for men

A thought for today

Some details about today's programmes

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

and his Versatile Five
Contrasted rhythms

John Francis (flute) Joy Boughton (oboe)
Millicent Silver (piano)

by Harry Lamb

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack

News commentary and interlude

from p. 33 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 50 of ' Each Returning Day'

played by BBC Variety Orchestra
Leader, Frank Cantell
Conductor, Charles Shadwell with George James

at the theatre organ
Hit Parade

sung by Helena Cook (soprano) Mark Mellers (baritone)

with the Three in Harmony accompanied by the Hula Players
Musical arrangements by James
Moody
Compere, Hugh Shirreff
Produced by James Dyrenforth

(baritone) on gramophone records

Variety talent from Sheffield including
Dorothy Hall , Madge Penny, Albert Brain , Gordon and Harry, the Grand Hotel Orchestra, Arthur Holland , and Malcolm Graeme
Presented by Richard North

A five-minute talk to the women behind the fighting line

and his Orchestra

A Christmas story by H. E. Bates , read by Kelvin Fitzgerald
Broadcast previously on December 24 last year

A gramosaic of good things, produced by Roy Rich and Leslie Perowne

Eddie Macauley

played by BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe

Leader, Harold F. Petts
Conductor, Ernest W. Goss
Daniel Melsa (violin)

Barbara Ward

A parade of song hits arranged by Mai Jones and Glyn Jones with Marion Browne , John Rorke ,
Haydn Adams , Cliff Earnshaw
Revue Chorus, arrangements by Idloes Owen
At the pianos, Mai Jones and Frank Davison
Produced by Glyn Jones

Rhagor o awgrymiadau sut i gynllunio ein prydiau bwyd o ddydd i ddydd gan Jeanette E. Jones
(A talk in Welsh)

5.20 ' Children in wartime '-2
A monthly magazine recording outstanding examples of the work done by children all over the country to help Britain's war effort

followed by National and Regional announcements

' Farming in December ' by W. S. Mansfield

Second edition
AU brand new, bigger and better than ever with Kenway and Young, Reginald Purdell , Hugh Morton , Helen Clare , Clarence Wright , the Revue Chorus and BBC Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Charles Shadwell
Sketches by Douglas Young and Eric Barker
Presented by Leslie Bridgmont

Outside broadcast from places in the news
No. 2-A C.E.M.A. Concert in a Rest Centre with Robert Easton
Ruth Pearl and Thomas Best at the piano
C.E.M.A. stands for the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts and their policy is to provide music in shelters, rest centres, and elsewhere where people are cut off from its enjoyment

played by Louis Kentner
Eclogue (from The Swiss Year of Pilgrimage)
Scherzo and march
Hungarian rhapsody No. 9 (The
Carnival of Pesth)

by L. du Garde Peach
' Rhodes '
Produced by Peter Creswell
Cast : also clerks, soldiers, officers, a Matabele chief, etc., etc.
Cecil Rhodes , Empire - builder, British imperialist, and statesman, was Prime Minister of Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He died in 1902, the year the Boer War ended.
Few men's names have survived more endurably after their deaths. Rhodesia is named after him. And as the years go by many a young man of brains from some part of the British Empire or the United States is awarded his chance by obtaining a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford.

Air Marshal Sir Philip Joubert

[Starring] Naunton Wayne
A cabaret entertainment
Devised by Henry Sherek
With dialogue by Max Kester
The artists include: Magda Kun, Inga Andersen, The Barkers (Jack and Daphne) and BBC Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent.

Address by the Very Rev. E. N. Porter Goff, Provost of Portsmouth

and his Orchestra

Poems from the Chinese of the Emperors Wu-Ti and Chien Wen-ti , Li Po , Chang Wen-Chang , Su Tung -p'o, and others, translated by Arthur Waley , Cranmer-Byng, and Chige-yoshi Obata and set to music by Constant Lambert, Granville Bantock , Charles T. Griffes , and Reginald Redman
Performed by the BBC Orchestra
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Marjorie Avis (soprano)
Glyn Eastman (baritone)
Ewart Scott (speaker)
The programme devised and conducted by Reginald Redman European scholars and poets have of late years shown increasing interest in the rich treasure-house of Chines* poetry. The result has been that many excellent translations of the work of the great Chinese poets and philosophers have been made available to European readers.
A few (too few, perhaps) British composers of taste and distinction have shown interest in these translations and have accordingly set some of the most musically inspiring. This evening you will hear a varied selection of the settings of British composers.