and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
A weekly ration of records made by America's Crooner Number One
Exercises for men
An interlude
A thought for today
The Rev. B.C. Plowright
followed by Programme Parade
Details of some of today's broadcasts
Some suggestions from
Freddy Grisewood
and his Orchestra with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber ,
, Jackie Hunter , and George Evans
Conducted by Wing Commander R. P. O'Donnell, M.V.O., Director of Music, Royal Air Force
News commentary and interlude
from p. 101 of 'New Every Morning' and p. 16 of ' Each Returning Day'
A programme of records about well-known guitarists written and arranged by A.P. Sharpe.
This week: Lani McIntire
A magazine programme for women in which all aspects of running a home in wartime will be discussed
11.0 Physical training (for use in . halls) by Edith Dowling
11.20 Interval music
11.25 Games with words
Arranged by Helen F. Benson
11.40 Talks for fifth forms
' Mathematics at home '
F. W. Bradley , Ph.D.
Leader, J. Moliland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
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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
A programme of gramophone records presented by Sonia Kennedy
1.50 Our changing countryside
' The farmer's enemies ' by John R. Allan
How scientists help the farmer to fight his enemies
2.10 Interval music
2.15 For under-sevens
Let's join in! With Ann Driver and Jean Sutcliffe
' The rock pool'
2.30 Interval music
2.35 Good writing: Book talk
R. L. Stevenson 's ' The New Arabian
Nights'
S. P. B. Mais
played by George Scott-Wood and his Grand Accordion Band
from a college chapel
Versicles and Responses
Psalms cxxix, cxxx, cxxxi
First Lesson: Isaiah lxiv, 1-9 Magnificat (Wilson in C)
Second Lesson: St. John xiv, 15-24 Nunc Dimittis (Wilson in C) Creed and Collects
Anthem: Coelos ascendit hodie
(Stanford)
Prayers
Carol: God is ascended up on high
Some gentle musical breezes blown by Evelyn Dove, Pat Rignold, Helen Raymond, Bettie Bucknelle, Jack Plant, Roderick Jones, and Forsythe, Seamon, and Farrell
A section of the BBC Chorus and the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Jimmy Dyrenforth will act as draughtsman
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BBC Singers
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
(Welsh Children's Hour)
Hogiau'r Gogledd
Caneuon, storiau a smaldod gan
Emrys, Meic, Ifan a'r Wythawd
Songs by the choir of a girls' school from Guernsey, now evacuated to the North of England and ' Pencil and paper ' more questions, puzzles, and catches by P. Caton Baddeley
followed by National and Regional announcements
plays violin solos
Things that need doing and ways of doing them
John Hilton on workers in war industry
Cuirm-chiuil de orain a dh' iarradh leis an luchdeisdeachd
The box-office, will show tomorrow
Third edition
A musically illustrated review of some Manchester first nights compiled by S. R. Littlewood
Arranged and produced by Gordon McConnel
The singers
. Dennis Noble
Effie Atherton .
Ronnie Hill
Violet Carson
The Three Radio Graces
BBC Theatre Chorus
Trained by Charles Groves
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder .
Conducted by Reginald Burston
Compere, Wilfred Pickles
A show for the Home Front
Written by Reginald Purdell and Frederick Burtwell
Reopening tonight with Shelter marshal Jack Melford introducing : Gwen Lewis
Frederick Burtwell
Reginald Purdell
Sylvia Marriott
Bertha Willmott and The Clubmen
Guest artists
Georgie Wood assisted by Dolly Harmer
Produced by Reginald Purdell and Francis Worsley
The Dance Orchestra
Conducted by Billy Ternent
, Symphony in D minor played by BBC Orchestra
(Section A)
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Evening prayers
by Charles Hatton
The love story of an astonishing animal
Produced by Lance Sieveking
Characters :
Titus, a dragon, Josiah Pendleton , an animal trainer, Elsa, his wife, Clem Burke , a theatre manager, Mrs. Lapwprth, a landlady, Daddy Danvers , a reporter, Professon Lecrow , Raymond Knight , a theatrical magnate
Three pieces for clavecin by Jean-
Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Rigandon-Minuet-Tambourin in their original forms then freely transcribed for piano by Leopold Godowsky and played by James Ching
This programme should appeal to all who are interested in the evolution of the pianoforte. The clavecin, or clavicembalo, was one of the immediate eighteenth-century ancestors of the modern instrument, the strings being struck with a hard crow-quill. It was the chief instrument for accompanying until the introduction of the piano with hammers
and his Orchestra
