and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Jessie Matthews, the stage and screen star

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 Mrs. Ella Whitefield

played by Peter Bornstein

Recent recordings of popular hits

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack

Introductory music: Air from Berenice (Handel)
Order of Service
Theme: "Our Father"
Introductory talk
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven (A. and M. 298; S.P. 623; Rv. C.H. 21. Tune: Praise, my soul)
Prayer
Reading: St. Luke XV, 11-32
Prayers and Lord's Prayer
The King of love my Shepherd is (A. and M. 197; S.P. 694; Rv. C.H. 438. Tune: Dominus regit me)
Blessing
Closing music

News commentary and interlude

from p. 81 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 42 of ' Each Returning Day'

played by Patrick Piggott

by a doctor

11.0 Music and movement for infants
Ann Driver
11.25 Speech training for Scottish schools
Anne H. McAllister , D.Sc.
11.40 Talks for sixth forms
Current affairs by Sir Frederick Whyte

Presented by James Moody with the Three in Harmony

at the theatre organ

An ENSA concert for war-workers with the Two Rascals (Charlie O'Donnell and Eddie Fields), Tommy Brandon ,
Sidney Kyte and his Orchestra

from a South-West concert hall
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Leslie Heward

2.0 Travel talks
Latin-America
I-In a Mexican village by K. G. Grubb
2.15 Interval music
2.20 ' If I were British '
1-Hans meets the President of the Board of Education, the Rt. Hon.
Herwald Ramsbotham
2.40 Orchestra concert series by Ronald Biggs
Introductory talk: Listening to the Orchestra

played by Band of H.M. Irish Guards
Conducted by Lieut. G. H. Willcocks

and his Band

sung by George Parker (baritone)
With the exception of the three by Schubert, the settings of Shakespeare's songs to be heard this afternoon are all by modern British composers. To attempt to match Shakespeare's word-music with music of our own day is, admittedly, no easy task. Yet these lyrics, scattered through the plays, demand to be sung, and they have called into existence a surprising number of adequate and charming settings.

Now that cosmetics are rationed, by Mary Embrey

with George Elrick
Alec Finlay , the Cheerful Earfuls, and a surprise earful with Ronnie Munro and the Scottish Variety
Orchestra
Presented by Tom Dawson

Sgwrs gan David Thomas
Cenir nifer o'r penillion gan Meic Parry
(A talk with songs in Welsh;

5.20 A story in verse for the younger listeners
'Albert the Camel's Son' by Hugh Heaton
5.30 A programme of records chosen by evacuated children and their parents
5.45 'Down on Fenwoods Farm in January', by A. W. Ling

A national magazine dealing with some of the things which are being thought, said, and done an over Britain today
Introduced by Peter Fettes

Songs about the libelled ladies of Tin-Pan Alley and Charing Cross Road, sung by Diana Ward
The Three in Harmony
with BBC Revue Orchestra
Leader, Boris Pecker
Conducted by Hyam Greenbaum

Charles Heslop will introduce Miss Otis, Madame la Zonga, Olga Pollovski , Minnie the Moocher, Hard-Hearted Hannah, and all the other guests
Written and produced by Howard Thomas

Here is a bright idea, worthy of the brain of Howard Thomas who has devised so many interesting and ingenious radio programmes, the idea being briefly that nice girls in programmes have been overdone, and so he proposes to give a chance to the shady ones.
Howard Thomas, who comes from Manchester, devised and wrote the 'Man Behind the Melodies' series, the first of which was broadcast by Herman Darewski - himself a Manchester man. But probably Howard Thomas's most famous series was
'Showmen of England' which featured the late Bertram Mills, C.B. Cochran, and many another who had the flair for appealing to the public taste.

A series of twelve talks on the art of the drama, illustrated by well-known actors in acts and scenes from plays from Aeschylus to Noel Coward , with special emphasis on the theatre of the last fifty years
Act 1, Scene 1
What is drama ?
A preliminary discussion between
Frank O'Connor and Lewis Casson with scenes played from Macbgh,
Man and Superman Private Lives, and Night Must Fall

with Joan Hammond
The fourth of a series of programmes featuring some of our best-known friends who are popular both down under ' and ' over and up
Chorus and orchestra conducted by Billy Ternent
Devised and written by Harry Alan
Towers
Produced by Tom Ronald

BBC Chorus
Chorus-master, Leslie Woodgate
BBC Orchestra
(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould

Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

and his Band

Sonata in E flat for piano played by John du Chastain
Haydn's most original work was done in his symphonies and string quartets, although he was certainly one of the first composers of his time to realise the possibilities of the piano sonata. As a whole, Haydn's piano sonatas are nothing like so daring in form and treatment as those of Mozart.
The Sonata in E flat is typical of the composer's clear-cut, melodious style.