and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Ike Hatch, the coloured minstrel

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. Rena Bosanquet

Leader, Laurance Turner Conductor, Gideon Fagan

' A film critic turns sentimental'
A programme of records chosen and presented by Lilian Duff

at the theatre organ
Popular melodies on parade

played by Ruth Holmes (piano)

News commentary and interlude

from p. 57 of ' New Every Morning' and p 18 of ' Each Returning Day

played by Edward O'Henry at the theatre organ
Edward O'Henry was for some years organist and general manager of the Forum Cinema, St. Helier, and escaped from Jersey just before the German occupation. He is now engaged in war work in a ship-building yard.

11.0 The Music Shop: High Sounds and Low
Planned and written by John Horton

11.20 Intermediate French
by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Yvonne Oberlin
Quelques comparisons!

11.40 Senior Geography: India: Problems and Development: 4: Irrigation in the Punjab
Sir Malcolm Darling

Conductor, Mr. F. L. Statham
Regimental marches: The young
May moon ; and The Manchester

and his Apache Band with Clare Francis

by a doctor

Laurance Turner (1st violin) ; Albert Voorsanger (2nd violin) ; Frank Park
(viola) ; Haydn Rogerson (cello)

2.0 Nature study
Round the countryside
Putting questions to nature—I
' Sticklebacks' by H. 0. Bull
2.15 Interval music
2.20 Physical training
(for use in classrooms) by Edith Dowling
2.35 Interval music
2.40 British history
Movements and men-1800-1875
4-Robert Owen's cotton factory by Mary Stocks

played by BBC Military Band
Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell.

leader, Harold F. Petts
Conductor, Ernest W. Goss with Bratza (violin) ORCHESTRA

by Harold Hobson
Mr. Hobson's theme will be that sport can be the subject of great literature as well as can more serious topics. He will deal with cricketing and other reminiscences from this point of view.

presented by S. H. Newsome with Naunton Wayne , Les Allen, and other artists
From a Midland theatre

(News and special announcements in Welsh)

5.20 Some more records of Uncle Mac's nursery rhymes, second series, and ' Professor Porky'
A story by Hugh Heaton , told by Mac
' Try it out yourself '
Some more experiments explained by Frank Gillard
5.55 Children's Hour Epilogue

followed by National and Regional announcements

' An extra sack to the acre' by Professor J. A. Scott Watson
The Minister of Agriculture has said that where we have thought in terms of six or eight sacks to the acre we should now aim at eight or ten on even more. Today Professor Scott Watson is going to talk about spring cultivations and manurial dressings for spring crops, which will ensure this increase of yield. Professor Scott Watson has had practical experience of arable cropping on the St... John's College Farm at Long Wittenham, in Oxfordshire.

Satire, snap, sophistication, and songs from Nan Kenway and Douglas Young, Reginald Purdell, Hugh Morton, Ian Sadler, Helen Clare, Clarence Wright
BBC Revue Chorus and BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
Sketches written by Douglas Young and Eric Barker

Third meeting of the club with Lionel Gamlin in the chair
The guest of the evening will be Herbert Murrill , who will say what he thinks about ' swing ', and let us hear some

BBC Chorus
Chorus-master, Leslie Woodgate
BBC Orchestra
(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult ORCHESTRA
Stanford's choral ballad ' Phaudrig Crohoore ' was first produced at the Norwich Festival in 1896. The ballad is an Irish legend telling of Phaudrig Crohoore (or .Patrick Connor), 'a broth of a boy', six foot eight, and his love for Kathleen O'Brien. Phaudrig had a rival, Michael O'Hanlon, who was favoured by Kathleen's father, and a marriage was arranged between Michael and Kathleen. On the wedding day when the guests were assembled and the ceremony was about to begin, Phaudrig strode in and went straight to Kathleen asking her if it was by her own free choice that she was marrying Michael, Her tearful eye and pale cheek told him the truth -that her heart was his. Then said Phaudrig: She's mine, in spite of you all! ' O'Hanlon challenged him to fight but with one blow Phaudrig struck him dead. Then, seizing Kathleen in his arms, he leaped on his horse and galloped away before the amazed guests could stop him.
The tale ends there, but in an epilogue the chorus sings a final stanza telling how Phaudrig fell in battle.

A sound-picture of Fifty-Second
Street
Written by Travis Ingham
Produced by William N. Robson

A weekly gathering of famous folk
The regulars include:
The Master of Ceremonies
Richard Goolden as Old Ebenezer ,the night watchman, who has a dramatic story to tell
The Court of Melody
Tunes are on trial and the ear is evidence
The Town Hall Dance Orchestra, under the direction of Billy Tement and the guest of the week
Weekly meetings organised by Gladys and Clay Keyes and presented by Eric Spear

Address by the Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bristol

Trio in A minor, Op. 114, for clarinet, cello, and piano played by Stephen Waters (clarinet); Antonia Butler (cello) ; Kathleen Markwell
(piano)
Brahms wrote his Trio for clarinet, cello, and piano, like his Clarinet Quintet and clarinet sonatas, for the clarinettist, Miihlfeld, of von Billow's famous Meiningen Orchestra.
Though rarely heard, it is a fine work in the composer's later compressed style. It is said that Brahms intended the opening theme for that of a fifth symphony.

(By permission of the Air Council)
Compere, David Miller