and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Les Alien, the pppu!ar
Canadian radio and Variety s.nger

Exercises for men

A thought for today by Canon F. A. Cockin

Some details about today's programmes

A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Margaret Grant

A review of March records by Leslie Perowne

played by The Entr'acte Players

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack

from p. 53 of 'New Every Morning' and p. 58 of 'Each Returning Day'

to records of Artie Shaw and his Orchestra

and the Cuban Caballeros with Anne Lenner

A short story by Gerald Bullett , read by Kevin FttzGeraId
(First broadcast August 5, 1937)

featuring
Ronnie Munro with his girl-friends, and the Scottish Variety Orchestra
Presented by Tom Dawson

with Jimmy Leach and assisting artists
Compere, David Miller

A London borough grows its food
Councillor H. H. Wilmot , J'.P.,
Mayor of FincMey
A month ago Graham Castle described how the Gloucestershire viDages were attempting to grow their own food. This movement is not confined to the counties. Many boroughs have made great strides, as CounciUor Wilmot wi)! show.

Quintet in F minor, for piano and strings played by the Mar;orie Hayward String
Quartet:
Mar)orie Hayward (violin) ; Irene Richards (violin) , Olive Davidson (viola); Antonia Butler (cello) , and G. O'Connor-Morris (piano)

Conductor, Fred Mortimer

London v. Bristol
A second version of the popular American parlour game, presented and compered by Neil Munro, assisted by Morley Adams, with F.H. Grisewood as Master of Ceremonies

At the end of this programme the Director of Variety, John Watt, will announce the result of the third Prize Puzzle Corner, broadcast on February 8 and 10

Played by Percival Mackey and his Band

and his Sextet with Mervyn Saunders Request medley

(St. David's Day)
A programme of Welsh music
Margaret Rees (soprano)
Idris Daniels (bass-baritone)
BBC Singers
BBC Orchestra (Section C)
Conducted by Idris Lewis ORCHESTRAIDRIS DANIELSMARGARET REES AND BBC SINGERS ORCHESTRABBC SINGERSIDRIS DANIELSORCHESTRA

Rhaglen i ddathlu Gwyl Dewi
Yn ein rhaglen heddiw, a gawn ni gono tri gwr y dethlir eu canmiwyddiant eleni—John Elias o Fon, Dewi Wyn o Einon a'r Dr. Joseph Parry
Y rhaglen a'r cyfarwyddo gan
T. Rowland Hughes
(Centenary programme for three famous Welshmen)

'Seeing Wales'
A programme for St. David's Day, by T. Rowland Hughes, produced by Enid
In this feature you will hear descriptions of scenes from different parts of Wales and will be introduced to some Welsh characters, including a farmer from the rich fields of Anglesey, a young Welsh quarryman, a milkmaid from a Merioneth farm, a shepherd from the Brecknock Beacons, and a collier from the Rhondda Valley.

followed by National and Regional announcements

A reading from the Irish poet by Frank 0'Connor '

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

Once again we stop the London traffic in order to bring to you some of the interesting people who are In Town Tonight
Introducing personalities from every walk of life

A programme for St. David's Day by'Gwyn Jones
Produced by T. Rowland Hughes

Last of the series of discussions in which three men ask a parson some of the questions that are in many people's minds these days

If what has been said about God and man on preceding nights is true, what does it mean in simple, straightforward terms ? On this question a newcomer to the discussions will have some uncomfortable things to say. He represents the great number of people who feel that the Church is always taking refuge in long explanations from the simple demands of Jesus.

These four discussions will be followed up by two sermons to be broadcast tomorrow, March 2, by Canon F. A. Cockin , the 'parson', who will conduct both the morning and the evening services in the Home programme.

Symphony No. 8, In F played by BBC Orchestra (Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Beethoven himself called the Eighth Symphony a ' little symphony ' and although it is imbued from first to last with gay spirits and is almost as light in texture as a Haydn or Mozart symphony, it was no great success when it was first performed. The reason for this, said Beethoven, is ' because it is so much better than the other'(the No. 7). Beethoven, however, was not necessarily a good judge of his own music.

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 Sght for freedom
' From Britain's oldest Dominion '
Sergeant Jeff Carnem (St. Johns) and Bombardier W. B. Tucker
(Grand Falls) .

Programme devised and written by Wilfrid Rooke Ley with Violet Marquesita , Wilfrid Rooke Ley , Andrea Matandrinos ,
Cecile Chevreau , and William Ashley
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Mark H. Lubbock
Presented by Desmond Davis
Deep down in a certain cellar, which you must imagine to be both soundproof and bomb-proof, the night life of London still goes on. There the exiles of every nation gather to drink the remaining stocks of the wine of their country, and to listen to their native music.
Listeners can depend on a romantic atmosphere and background in any programme devised by the deviser of ' The Table under the Tree', especially when it is to be performed by so gifted and cosmopolitan a cast.

Shortened Evensong

with Dorothy Carless, Len Camber, Jackie Hunter, and George Evans

The recording van visits the far West
Programme presented by Clifton Helliwell and Leslie Baily
Produced by Douglas Oeverdon
This programme was originally broadcast in the ' Music-Makers' Half-Hour' series in November of last year. It gives a recorded picture of amateur music-making activities in Cornwall.