and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Hutch (
Leslie A. Hutchinson )

Exercises for men
7.40 Exercises for women

A thought for today by Mrs. J. M. Anderson

Details of some of today's broadcasts

A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Helen Burke

A selection of records taken at random from the rack

Introductory music: melody by Gluck
Order of Service
Theme: The Beatitudes
Introductory talk
Christ, whose glory fills the skies (A. and M. 7; S.P. 26; Rv. C.H. 261. Tune, Ratisbon)
Prayer
Reading: St. Matthew v 1-12
Prayers and Lord's Prayer
Happy are they, they that love God (S.P. 509; Rv. C.H. 440. Tune, Binchester)
Blessing
Closing music

A fortnightly series about Northern' inventors
I-William Smith , inventor of one of the earliest systems of central heating, by his son J. F. J. Smith

played by The Claydon Quintet

News commentary and interlude

from p. 41 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 20 of ' Each Returning Day'

Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
A programme of gramophone records
Fantasia on English melodies:
Here's a health unto His Majesty ; Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen ; Early one morning ; Spanish ladies ; Drink to me only with thine eyes; Begone, dull care ; Heart of oak; Rule, Britannia
Join in and sing:
The boys without a grouse; Vive l'amour ; Here's to good old whiskey ; Dear old pals ; Come, landlord, fill the flowing bowl; We don't want to fight ; Cockles and mussels ; Oh ! Mr. Porter ; All through the night ; Roast beef of old England ; Annie Laurie ; It's time to say goodnight

Topical notes on wartime health, mainly by doctors

11.0 Music and movement for infants
Ann Driver
11.20 Interval music
11.25 Speech training for
Scottish schools
Anne H. McAllister

An ENSA concert for war-workers with Helen McKay Sandy Rowan
Arthur Salisbury and the Savoy Hotel
Orchestra with Victor Lyndon

All sorts of people will tell us how, why, and where we should grow more food

From a West-Country concert hall
Thomas Matthews (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Julius Harrison

2.0 Travel talks
The Mediterranean
' With a donkey cart in Andalusia '
Cora Gordon
2.15 Interval music
2.20 ' If I were British '
' Hans visits a widow and her family'
2.40 Orchestral concert series
Introductory broadcast
Ronald Biggs
Listening to an orchestra
This broadcast will make special reference to the woodwind and horn,' and will be illustrated by extracts from music to be heard later in this series.

(Second Series)
An album of things worth remembering in these present times, presented by Leslie Baily and Francis Worsley
The April edition includes
Pioneers of Radio
Marconi, Melba
Paderewski pianist and patriot
' Now that April's here ' ' a page from the country
Book choice some famous people's suggestions
The pages turned by Patric Curwen
Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Hyam Greenbaum

played by Leonard Hirsch (violin)
Joan Boulter (piano)

Harold Hobson

A programme of recent compositions by Kenneth Leslie-Smith with Paula Green
Ronnie Hill and Doris Hare
BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell
Presented and compered by Vernon Harris

Sgwrs gan Bob Owen Croesor
(A talk in Welsh)

5.20 Our serial story
Mac will tell you the thirteenth instalment of Arthur Ransome
' Winter holiday
Muriel Herbert songs at the piano
5.55 Children's Hour Epilogue

followed by National and Regional announcements

An appreciation by Frank O'Connor

performed by BBC Chorus
Chorus Master, Leslie Woodgate
BBC Orchestra (Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Parry Jones (tenor)

Discussions illustrated by poets, actors, critics, elocutionists, teachers, and he plain men on English verse and how to speak it.
1 The scope of verse '
Observations, enthusiastic and sceptical, on verse in general, by Robert Nichols and Thomas Hunt

Presented by James Moody ; produced by James Dyrenforth

A radio filmagazine introducing
General releases
Excerpts from current films, including a personal appearance of John Gielgud and Diana Wynyard in a scene from
' The Prime Minister '
(By kind permission of Warner Bros.
Pictures Ltd.)
Studio Gossip and News
Films in the making
Personnel and stars from the Ealing
Studios where they are making
'Ships with Wings' a Michael Balcon production, directed by Sergei Nolbandov , with John Clements , Leslie Banks ,
Jane Baxter , Ann Todd , and other well-known British screen personalities
Music from the Movies
Special arrangements, selections, and hit numbers from the latest filmusicals, played by Louis Levy and his Orchestra
" Presented by Douglas Moodie

Sir Walter Monckton, K.C.V.O., Director-General of the Ministry of Information.

by G. R. Rainier
Produced by Howard Rose

A comic opera in two acts
Words and music by Rae Elrick
Orchestration by Ian Whyte
Cast
The oldest tenant Gordon McCallum
Chorus of fishwives and tenantry and BBC Scottish Orchestra
Conducted by Kemlo Stephen
Act 1: The fish-market of Inverdon Act 2 : The banqueting hall of Achnahoochaye Castle, Sir Sam
* Pebble's Deeside residence
Time, Never
Produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall
Pride o' the Green is a comic opera written specially for broadcasting. It was broadcast twice in the old Scottish Regional programme before the war, and was also televised from Alexandra Palace.

. A programme of quiet music played by The Chalumeau Ensemble