and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Valaida, the coloured nightingale and trumpet player of ' Blackbirds 1934 '

Exercises for women
7.40 Exercises for men

An interlude

A thought for today
The Rev. Dom Bernard Clements, O.S.B.

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

This week again brings fourspeakers to the Kitchen Front, but a different four from those who have spoken during the last few weeks. The demonstrator who speaks today and will speak again on Friday is Dorothy Deakin , who supervises one of the Ministry's Food Advice Centres in the North.

A gramophone programme with fatherhood as the central theme
Written and presented by Franklin Engelmann

at the theatre organ
Music by Coleridge-Taylor

and his Orchestra
This orchestra was formed last autumn by Alfred Barker , for many years leader of the Halle Orchestra, and gave its first broadcast in November : leader, Barker himself ; first violinist, Olive Zorian , who has been soloist at the Proms ; second violin, Hooper-Roe, who regularly used to play at Buxton Spa ; cellist, Gladys Yates , and viola, Phyllis Greenhaigh , both members of the Manchester Women's Orchestra ; double bass, R. Barrett , and flute and piccolo, George Rutherford, both members of the Halle ; piano, Frank Wade ; clarinet and saxophone, Ralph Bruce , who shares the arranging with Barker and is regarded by him as one of the best arrangers in the North.

News commentary and interlude

from p. 117 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 62 of ' Each Returning Day'

played by the BBC Salon Orchestra
Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

11.0 Singing together by Herbert Wiseman
English songs:
Richard of Taunton Dean
Oh no, John !
Come lasses and lads l'i.20 Interval music
11.25 English for pleasure
' How a book is born '
L. A. G. Strong
11.40 English for under-nines
Designed by Jean Sutcliffe
Play: 'Jack and Jill'
Part 2-' How the children broke the spell'

Presented by James Moody
It goes quickly and it's a pleasant jingle

A talk by Paul Henry

AN ENSA concert for war-workers with Billie Stone
Jack Davis
Mantovani and his Orchestra with Ray Miller

followed by a recording of- last night's postscript

William Parsons (baritone)
Berkeley Mason (organ)

1.50 Science and gardening
' Pests and diseases to fight now '
C. F. Lawrance
2.10 Interval music
2.15 Stories from world history by Rhoda Power
' The boy who watched birds '
How the schoolboys Otto and Gustav Lilianthal studied the flight of storks and tried to make themselves wings. How when Otto grew up, he invented a glider and became known as ' the flying man '. His last flight.
2.35 Interval music
2.40 English for everyday use by Douglas R. Allan
Miscellaneous programme of games with words

played by Reginald Foort at the theatre organ

Edwin Muir
Poet, novelist, critic, and essayist, Edwin Muir was born in the Orkneys, and, living three miles from the nearest school, was practically self-educated. A childhood spent on the farm could not keep him. from literature, although this was for many years a spare-time occupation. Readers of The Listener know Muir's weekly reviews of fiction well, and many listeners will j-emember his radio features commemorating famous Scottish festivals. A Scotsman to the bone, Muir can certainly be relied upon for a keenly critical appraisement of new books published in Scotland.

Led by Marie Wilson
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult

and his Ambassadors

Stori radio o Saesneg Jack Jones
Fe'i darllenir hi gan Gunstone Jones
(A story in Welsh)

5.20 Ronald Gourley will entertain and David will tell a story, ' The Bewitched Farmyard', by Murray Fisher
5.45 David Seth-Smith, the Zoo Man

followed by National and Regional announcements

A serial play in eight episodes by Mabel Constanduros and Howard
Agg
Produced by Howard Rose
Episode 2
Cast :

in 'Native Clod '
A peep behind the scenes in Hertfordshire

(piano)
Cyril Smith 's first London recital in 1932 established his reputation, and since then he has appeared at most of the important concerts and festivals in this country. He was appointed a professor at the Royal College of Music at the age of twenty-five.
Cyril Smith 's hobbies are golf, photography, and his garden. It takes many hours work to be a successful pianist and teacher and the pianos (three of them) in Cyril Smith 's house are overworked from time to time, as his wife, Phyllis Sellick , is also a concert pianist.

The tenth talk in a series on the twenty Republics that lie between the United States and Cape Horn
'Youth and the future in Latin America' - Kenneth Grubb

Presented by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman
The Radio Three
'Calling X2!'
The fourteenth of a series of counterespionage adventures, written by Ernest Dudley, with Jack Melford as British Agent X2
'Something old - Something new'
Famous song-writers then and now
Rawicz and Landauer
Puzzle Corner
'S.O.S. Sally'
'May we introduce...?'
Presented by Leonard Urry and compered by 'Quiz'
Singing commeres, the Three Chimes
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell

A reconstruction of the production of a ballet (in London in wartime) followed from its first conception, through the stages of discussion and rehearsal, ending with the opening bars of the overture on the first night
The material for this programme, which will include recordings of Constant Lambert, Ninette de Valois, and Robert Helpmann taken in rehearsal, will be supplied by Constant Lambert, with the help of Ninette de Valois and the Sadler's Wells Ballet
Produced by Stephen Potter

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Ian Whyte

' The poetry of content'

and his Dance Orchestra