and summary of todays programmes for the Forces

A weekly ration of records made by America's Crooner Number One

Exercises for men
7-40 Exercises for women

A thought for today
The Rev. G. L. Russell

followed by Programme Parade
Details of some of today's broadcasts

A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Mrs. Wilks

' Sweet and lovely '
A programme of gramophone records presented by David Miller

at the theatre organ

A reading from ' Lessons from the Cross ', by Bishop Mandell Creighton

Tuesday in Holy Week
Sung sentence: If any man love me, he will keep my word ; and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and dwell with him
0 for a heart to praise my God (A. and M. 549 ; S.P. 113 ; C.H. 467)
Prayers
Psalm: vi
Reading: St. Matthew xxvi, 1-16 Prayers
Give light, 0 Lord (A. and M. 700)

32-Walter Niblo
The Interviewer, Wilfred Pickles
Produced by Richard North

by Laura Smithson

Records with the accent on the singer rather than the band

Edward Walker (flute)
Alan Whittaker (oboe)
Bernard Walton (clarinet)
Charles Gregory (horn)
Gilbert Vinter (bassoon)
In his youth, Rossini wrote a number of string quartets and a series of six quartets for flute, clarinet, horn, and bassoon. The quartet in F reveals the composer in his most naive mood. Here we shall look in vain for counterpoint, or even elementary part-writing ; instead we find first one instrument and then another declaiming operatically, with all the airs and graces of a prima donna, while the others support the soloist with a tum-tum accompaniment of a primitive kind. As a musical curiosity this quartet is worth reviving, although it cannot be taken seriously as a contribution to' chamber music.

A lunch time concert presented to their fellow workers by members of the staff of a large munition works
' somewhere in England '
Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe

sung by BBC Singers (B)
Sybilla Marshall ; Marjorie Avis ; Winifred Downer ; Gertrude Wood ; Rene Soames ; Leonard Hodgson ;
Victor Utting ; Victor Harding
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Home Service continued overleaf

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack

A parlour game to be played by" teams of musicians and puzzle experts
Chairman, Alan MacKinnen

played by H. Robinson Cleaver at the theatre organ

from a West-Country cathedral
Order of Service
Versicles and Responses Psalm xxviii
First Lesson: Lamentations iii, 22-27 Magnificat (Kelway in B minor)
Second Lesson: St. John xv, 17-24
Nunc Dimittis (Kelway in B minor) Creed and Collects
Anthem: Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons)
Prayers
Jesu, meek and lowly (E.H. 416) Blessing

A romance to the music of Johann Strauss with Augmented Orchestra and Chorus, directed by Billy Tement
The story devised and written by Alan Towers
Produced by Tom Ronald

Settings of Shakespeare:
It was a lover and his lass ; Under the greenwood tree ; 0 mistress mine ; Come away, death ; and Blow, blew, thou winter wind
Quilter
Settings of Robert Louis Stevenson :
Bright is the ring of words ; and The roadside fire (from Songs of Travel, Set 1) Vaughan Williams sung by Frederick Sharpe (baritone)

(Welsh Children's Hour)
'Y Cwpwrdd Cornel'
Faint ohonoch wyr am yr hen gwpwrdd cornel yn nhy eich nain, gyda'i stor o hen drysorau ? Pethau digon cyffredin yr olwg ydynt, ond pan fydd. Nain yn yr hwyl, mae stori i bob trysor
(A talk in Welsh)

' Records by request '
Another programme chosen by evacuated children and their parents for each other
5.55 Children's Hour Epilogue

followed by National and Regional announcements

Things that need doing and ways of doing them

by Pergolesi
Nottingham Oriana Choir
Strings of the Glyndeboume Orchestra
(by permission of John Christie , Esq.)
Leader, George Stratton
Conductor, Roy Henderson
Isobel Baillie (soprano)
Astra Desmond (contralto) from a church in the Midlands
Considering that Giovanni Battista Pergolesi died at the age of twenty-six the great excellence of his many compositions proves him to have been not only industrious, but a composer of such high promise that his early death robbed music of at probable great master.
Of his operas and oratorios, numbering fifteen, the best known is the delightful comic opera La Serva Padrona, and of his sacred music, a great quantity, the most valued is this celebrated Stabat Mater. It is thought that Pergolesi was no more than twenty when he wrote it, his promised remuneration being ten ducats which, however, seems not even to have been paid.

A new sketch of Glasgow family life by Helen W. Pryde
Produced by W. Farquharson Small
The McFlannels are in the main no better and no worse than their neighbours: They are good citizens. So it is not surprising that they have joined in the national ' Grow More Food ' campaign. Like a great many people they are new to gardening and their trials and troubles will find a sympathetic response from weary backs and blistered hands.

A radio impression of the work of the women who, at Government training centres, are learning to produce the tools and weapons for their menfolk to use in the battle against Hitler.

A play with music by Spike Hughes Radio score, based on traditional American melodies including ' Yankee
Doodle ', etc., by Jack Beaver
The Salon Orchestra
Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Produced by Douglas Moodie

Piano Trio in B flat played by The Kamaran Trio:
Marjorie Hayward (violin)
Antonia Butler (cello)
Kathleen Markwell (piano)
Whereas Schubert was a pioneer of the romantic movement as a song composer, even from the early part of his career when he wrote ' The Erl-King', ', it was not until the last three or four years of his life that he began to apply a romantic technique, particularly as regards harmony, to classical instrumental forms ; for example, in the Piano Trios in B flat and E flat, composed in 1827 for the Bocklet-Schuppanzigh-Linke Trio, with which Schubert was at that time closely associated. Both works are extremely romantic in conception, and if we agree to Schumann's description of the E flat being ' passive, feminine, lyrical' and the B flat being ' active, masculine, dramatic ', they should be considered complementary.

Evening prayers

in ' A woodland idyll'
Devised and arranged by Sidney Crooke

A short story written for broadcasting by Alastair Dunnett and read by the author