and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Jean Sablon, the_ popular
French recording- artist

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 Ambrose Heath

at the theatre organ
Hit tunes of the day:

(violin)

Tunes of the Hawaiian Islands on gramophone records

under the direction of Tom Jenkins

from p. 77 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 34 of ' Each Returning Day'

to records of Don Marino Barreto and his Cuban Orchestra

at the theatre organ
Some old popular favourites
Everything is rhythm
How deep is the ocean Says my heart
Smoke gets in your eyes
18th century drawing-room Charmaine
Merrily we roll along

and his Orchestra with Francis Russell

War-workers take the stage at an armament factory somewhere in England

' The kidding season ' by Mrs. Arthur Abbey

The life story of Jacques Offenbach
A radio play with gramophone records by George R. Foa with Austin Trevor as Offenbach and Yvonne Arnaud as Hortense Schneider
Produced by George R. Foa and Leslie Perowne
Of all the many gifted composers of opera-comique who flourished in Paris during the nineteenth century Offenbach was undoubtedly the most brilliant. His success in opera-comique was probably unparalleled in the history of this form of entertainment except for that of Johann Strauss.
His gay tunes and genius for satire will be well illustrated in ' Parisian Barcarolle He was Jewish by race and Catholic by faith, German by birth and Parisian by adoption. Having burlesqued the totalitarian rule of Napoleon III , he was still allowed enough freedom to compose the ' Couplets de l'opinion publique '.

Song memories compiled by Mai Jones and Glyn Jones with Elsie Eaves , Frank Davey , and Bernard Goldstein
At the pianos, Mai Jones and Frank Davison
Produced by Glyn Jones

Sir Donald Tovey
This afternoon Sir Adrian Boult and the Reid Symphony Orchestra will pay tribute to the gifts of the late Sir Donald Tovey as a composer. His Cello Concerto, which is one of his later and more important works, was written for Pau Casals, who gave it its first performance at Edinburgh on November 22, 1934, under the composer's direction.
The Reid Symphony Orchestra was, as many will remember, founded by Sir Donald Tovey in 1917. On this occasion the orchestra will be assisted by former members who are now members of the BBC Scottish
Orchestra.
2.30 Introductory Talk by Sir Thomas Holland , Principal of Edinburgh University
2.35 Memorial Concert
The Reid Orchestra, augmented by members of the BBC Scottish
Orchestra
Leader, John Fairbaim
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Overture: Egmont Beethoven Piano Concerto in A......Tovey
(Solo piano, Dr. Mary Grierson )
From a concert hall in Scotland
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and his Orchestra

His Majesty's Destroyers ex U.S. Navy named after villages and towns. A series of programmes, each giving an account of the town or village in Britain with a namesake in the U.S.A.
No. 6—Richmond, Yorkshire
Compere, H. Rooney Pelletier

sung by Sylva van Dyck (soprano)

The girls
Jane Grahame , Vera Lennox , Helen Hill , Dorothy Summers , and Doris Hare
Accompanied by the Dance Orchestra conducted by Billy Ternent
Script by Aubrey-Danvers-Walker
Presented by Michael North

Ymgom rhwng Sam a Simon
(A discussion in Welsh)

A play—' The Red Pirate ', by Angus MacVicar and Luke Parsons , which tells how the Red Pirate and his gang kidnap and hold to ransom Sally Hagen , an American millionaire's daughter who is living in Scotland

followed by National and Regional announcements

A reading from Nelson's letters by John Smith

Questions which are puzzling listeners in these difficult times are discussed each fortnight in this series of talks
The speakers will again be
George Haynes and Herbert Hodge

Once again we stop the London traffic in order to introduce to you some of the interesting people who are In
Town Tonight
Introducing personalities from every walk of life
Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan

Poems and songs of the American people, chosen by Louis MacNeice for the people of Britain Louis MacNeice, one of Britain's leading young, poets, has just returned from the United States, where he was teaching at Cornell University. His selection of American poems ranges from the light-hearted verse of Bret Harte to Walt Whitman and the sophisticated poets of modern New York.

Pat Hyde , radio's sweetheart
Cyril Fletcher more odd odes
Al Bowlly and Jimmy Mesene
Georgie Wood
(the Peter Pan of vaudeville) assisted by Dolly Harmer
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles ShadweU
Presented by John Sharman

Men from distant lands of the Dominions and Colonies come to the microphone at this time every fortnight to tell of the trade they followed and the homes they left to join the fight for freedom
' Pioneer flying on the Cape route' by Dorys-Mary Bentley

Symphony in D minor played by BBC Orchestra
(Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Julian Clifford

Shortened Evensong

at the theatre organ
Dance tunes of all times from the tom-tom to the rhumba

and his Orchestra