and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Kate Smith , America's radio sweetheart

Exercises for men

An interlude

A thought for today
The Bishop of Croydon

Details of some of today's broadcasts

Dorothy Deakin

Twenty-five minutes of rhythm with Kay Cavendish

at the theatre organ

Introductory music: Musette (Handel)
Order of Service
Theme: "Christian character"
Introductory talk
He who would valiant be (S.P. 515; A. and M. 676; Rv. C.H. 576; Tune: Monks' Gate. This will be sung in the S.P. version)
Prayer
Reading: 1 Corinthians, 13
Prayers and Lord's Prayer
At the name of Jesus (A. and M. 306, vv. 1, 5, 6; S.P. 392, vv. 1, 4, 5; Tune: Evelyn)
Blessing
Closing music

Waltz : The Emperor Pizzicato polka Annen polka
Galop: Tritsch-Tratsch
Waltz : Be embraced, ye millions
Overture: Die Fledermaus played by the BBC Northern Orchestra
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan

News commentary and interlude

from p. 97 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 36 of ' Each Returning Day '

Records that make your feet tap

Topical notes on wartime health mainly by doctors

Serial geography story
Adventures in Southern seas by ' Sinbad '
1-' South seas trader '

on gramophone records

Charles Taylor (first violin)
Sydney Partington
Paul Cropper (viola)
Alexander Young (cello)

An ENSA concert for war-workers with Billy Milton
Tommy Brandon
Jack Leon and his Dance Orchestra with Ann Trevor and Johnnie Green

Women are playing their part more and more in the ' Dig for Victory' movement. This new series of week-end notes for gardeners will be given at this time on Fridays by a Scots-woman and an Englishwoman
The speakers will be Anna Scarlett and Elizabeth Cowell

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
From a West-Country concert hall
Plebiscite programme

and his Band with Monte Rey , Bette Roberts ,
Bob Arden , and Irene Johnson

Some records of quiet West Indian music
Written and arranged by J. N. K. Billett

played by Jack Dowie at the theatre organ

A play for broadcasting by Eden Phillpotts
With Harcourt Williams as the Rev. Archibald Dunston , D.D., M.A.,
Principal of Merivale School
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Listeners who have read and enjoyed Eden Phillpotts 's stories of ' The Human Boy ' will relish this comedy of a Merivale mystery.

A programme of gramophone records
Rachmaninoff (piano)
Serenade, Op. 3, No. 5
Prelude in C sharp minor
Kreisler (violin)
La gitana
Paderewski (piano)
Minuet in G
Kreisler (violin)
Caprice viennois
John Ireland (piano)
April

by Harold Hobson

A story with music by Aubrey Danvers-Walker
Cast :
Kitty de Legh
Doris Nichols
Dick Francis
Betty Huntley Wright
Vera Lennox
Ewart Scott
Bettie Bucknelle
Jan van der Gucht
BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Produced by Gordon Crier

Sgwrs gan Tom Jones
(A talk in Welsh)

5.20 For younger listeners
Singing games and a story
5.35 Community singing from the Sang Scule
Conducted by Ian Whyte , Scottish
Music Director
5.45 World affairs by Vernon Bartlett

followed by National and Regional announcements

Fortnightly news and views about books, pictures, science, and films, presented by Joseph Macleod

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack

' Does it stick in your throat ? '
A plea for the free voice, by Marjorie Cullen , James Stephens , and . Robert Nichols

played by Violet Gordon Woodhouse
From a manor house in the West Country
Violet Gordon Woodhouse will be broadcasting from her beautiful home somewhere in England. A fine old Adam house; exquisitely formal, with wrought iron gates to the drive, situated on the hills commanding the loveliest view. And in the house, all over the place, are harpsichords, clavichords, and virginals, just as if the Dolmetsch family had been down there, as in fact they have, for they made many of them. Mrs. Gordon Woodhouse is the first to patronise the present-day craftsmen of an old tradition. There is only one thing to spoil it all. C'est la guerre The bowling green in her superb garden has been ploughed up to grow potatoes.

(I.T.S.A.)
A seaside showdown with Jack Train
Sydney Keith
Paula Green
Kay Cavendish
Fred Yule
Dorothy Summers
Horace Percival
Written by Ted Kavanagh
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
Produced by Francis Worsley

Concerto for solo violin, solo piano, and string quartet played by George Stratton (violin)
Reginald Paul (piano) Edwin Virgo (violin)
Horace Ayckbourne (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)

A wartime voyage to East Anglia, recorded on board the coastal sailing barge Cambria
The crew :
'Cully' Tovell, skipper
Alf Gowen , mate
Jimmy Adams , cook
Produced by Maurice Brown
Day in and day out, the tan-sailed Thames sailing barges with their beautifully characteristic rig beat, with their workaday cargoes, up and down the East Anglian coast. They do so under the constant threat of bomb, mine, and machine gun, though these men of sail display, says Maurice Brown , the most incredible indifference to danger. In fact, sailing the ship remains their chief task and problem.
The Cambria, on which Brown with engineers and recording equipment took a short routine trip, noisily disturbed by enemy action, is one of the most famous Thames barges, and has won many races.

Quiet, sleepy music played by the Chalumeau Ensemble

and his Orchestra