and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Paula Green, the popular dance-band singer
Exercises for men
An interlude
A thought for today
Sidney Dark
(Editor of the Church Times)
Details of some of today's broadcasts
A talk about what to eat and how to cook it, by Ambrose Heath.
at the theatre organ
Songs from the screen on gramophone records
News commentary and interlude
from p. 21 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 48 of Each Returning Day'
played by The Boulevard Players
11.0 Singing together by Herbert Wiseman
Hob y derri dando (Welsh song)
The gentle maiden (Irish song)
Over the hills and far away (Nursery rhyme)
11.20 Interval music
11.25 English for pleasure
' The typescript comes to life in the film studio ' ,
L. A. G. Strong
11.40 English for under-nines
Designed by Jean Sutcliffe
A ten-minute talk, followed by a word game, ' Dorothy and the apple pips'
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
with Ann Canning
Nat Travers
Jack Leon and his Orchestra, with Ann Trevor and Johnnie Green
followed by a recording of last night's postscript by the Minister of Information, the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff Cooper , M.P.
played by Angus Morrison
1.50 Science and gardening
' Hygiene on the farm'
B. A. Keen
2.10 Interval music
2.15 Stories from world history by Rhoda Power
'King Steam'
John meets the driver of a steam roller and hears the stories of James Watt and the kettle and Robert Fulton and the steamship
2.35 Interval music
2.40 English for everyday use by Douglas R. Allan
Miscellaneous programme of games with words
played by Van Straten and his Music
(Section C)
Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Leighton Lucas
A talk by Scott Kennedy
Scott Kennedy, a Scottish journalist and field naturalist who broadcasts regularly on nature study subjects to Schools, will describe phonetically a number of popular birds songs that can be expressed by words. In this way it is hoped that listeners will be able to recognise the singers more easily.
and his Cuban Rumba Music
Ymddiddan gan Tom Evans ac
Evan Evans
(A talk in Welsh)
5.20 ' Stuff and nonsense '
Fun-fare on the air, concocted by Muriel Levy , with Doris Gambell , Noel Morris , Muriel Levy , Violet Carson ,
Wilfred Pickles , and Nan
5.45 David Seth-Smith , our Zoo man
followed by National and Regional announcements
From Rolf Boldrewood 's romance of life and adventure in the Australian bush and goldfields
A dramatic serial for broadcasting in ten instalments
Written and produced by Peter Creswell
Terence and Derrick de Marney as the brothers Dick and Jim Marston
6 ' The Marstons ride again '
Other characters :
Also bushrangers, mounted police, etc.
Symphony No. 5, in E flat played by BBC Orchestra
(Section B)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
The fourth talk in a series on the twenty Republics that lie between the United States and Cape Horn
' Latin America and us '
Arthur Shepherd
Listeners are to heir something of what Latin America has done for the cause of freedom, and something of what this country has done for (.atin America by investment, pioneering, and research.
It is of interest that the speaker has not experienced a winter for nearly thirty years, for each year for the past twenty-nine years he has spent our summer here, and our winter in the ' summer * of Latin America.
Presented by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman
Helen Hill
'Calling X2'
The eighth of a scries of counterespionage adventures written by Ernest Dudley, with Jack Melford as British Agent X2
'Something old - Something new' Famous song-writers then and now
Puzzle Corner
??? Guess ???
Patricia Burke
'S.O.S. Sally'
'May we introduce...?'
Presented by Leonard Urry
Compered by 'Quiz'
Singing commeres, the Three Chimes
The Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent
A programme showing songs of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Service in a contemporary setting by Thomas Wood
1 The Fire-Ships, 1588
2 The Grand Fleet, 1685
3 The Wonderful Year, 1759 4 The Clippers, 1850 5 Give thanks, 1941
The cast includes members of the BBC Repertory Company with Alan Howland as narrator
The West of England Folk Song
Singers
Produced by Felix Felton and Maurice Brown
A play for broadcasting by G. Rodney Rainier
Produced by Dallas Bower
with Evelyn Dove , Kimberley and Page
The Winter Gardens Orchestra
From a Northern ballroom
Presented by Victor Smythe
and his Orchestra with Dorothy Carless, Len Camber, Jackie Hunter, and George Evans
