and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Ginger Regers in songs from her films
Exercises for men
7.40 Exercises for women
A thought for today
The Rev. Canon L. G. Mannering, M.C.
Some details about today's programmes
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Ambrose Heath
Dance music and songs on gramophone records
at the theatre organ
Directed by Jack Hardy with Dorothy Pearce (soprano) .
News commentary and interlude
from p. 33 of 'New Every Morning' and p. 50 of ' Each Returning Day '
played by Ernest Leggett and the Continental Players
11.0 Singing together by Herbert Wiseman
Come, let us learn to sing (trad.)
Thou art like unto a' flower
(Schumann)
The crocodile (English song)
A fairy lullaby (Highland song)
The Campbells are cofnin' (Scots song)
The bear went over the mountain
(American nursery rhyme)
11.20 Intervafr music
11.25 English for pleasure
' Summing up '
A discussion between L. A. G. Strong and a schoolmaster on English lessons
11.40 English for under-nines
Designed by Jean Sutcliffe
A ten-minute tale by Rhoda Power , and ten minutes of games with words
Norman Whiteley
A talk on people and places by Denis Morris
on gramophone records
Bruce Dargavel (baritone)
All sorts of people will tell us how, why, and where we should grow more food
A recording of last night's broadcast
by Alfred Wilson
From an abbey in Scotland
A Perthshire man, Alfred Wilson succeeded his father as organist in Perth Baptist Church when only fourteen years of age, and three years later acted as assistant organist in Perth Cathedral. Ten years ago he was appointed to the Faculty of the Conservatory in the University of Torontb. In 1935, the year before he came back to this country, he was chosen out of the whole of Canada to represent that country at the New York Conference of Organists. He was appointed Master of the Music in Paisley Abbey in 1938.
1.50 Science and gardening
' Work to do now in the garden '
C. F. Lawrance
2.10 Interval music
2.15 Stories from world history by Rhoda Power
' The Chinese Scholar Emperor'
How Kang Hi (died 1722) helped the poor, encouraged learning, and made a treaty with Peter the Great of Russia
2.35 Interval music
2.40 English for everyday use
Acting a play: Galsworthy's ' Little
Man'
Laidman Browne
played by Andrew Fenner at the theatre organ
played by BBC Scottish Orchestra
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
J. W. Gillott and H. A. Gillott , manufacturers of mother-of-pearl implements, tell some stories of this little-known industry
with Anne Lenner , Gordon Little , and the Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy
Tement
Continuity by Loftus Wigram
Produced by Tom Ronald
Stori radio gan Kate Roberts
Fe'i darllenir hi gan yr awdur
5.20 ' The iron highway '
How the first steam locomotive came into being. The story of Richard Trevethick 's great invention written in dramatic form by Tudur Watkins
Produced by Enid
5.45 The Zoo Man
followed by National and Regional announcements
A serial story specially written for broadcasting by John Dickson Carr
8-' The end of it all'
Cast
Produced by Val Gielgud
played by •Albert Sammons and William Murdoch
The last talk in this series about the people of the United States and the country in which they live, deals with the U.S.A. and the future, and is given by a distinguished American visitor to this country, Professor
Allan Nevins
Presented by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman
Celia Lipton
'Calling X2!' by Ernest Dudley with Jack Melford as X2
'Something old - Something new'
Famous song-writers then and now
'Puzzle Corner' ??? Guess ???
Beatrice Lillie
'S.O.S. Sally'
'May we introduce...?'
Presented by Leonard Urry
Singing commeres, The Three Chimes
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
The story of Kew written and produced by Stephen Potter
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Eileen Ralph (piano)
An anthology of winter poems chosen by Hartley Kemball Cook and produced by M. H. Allen