and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Vera Lynn, the Forces' favourite

Exercises for men

An interlude

A thought for today
The Rev. Dorothy F. Wilson

Details of some of today's broadcasts

Mrs. Robins

Easy, breezy tunes on gramophone records

at the theatre organ

Introductory music: Trumpet voluntary (Purcell)
Order of Service
Theme: "Praise ye the Lord"
Introductory talk
O worship the King (A. and M. 167; S.P. 618; Rv. C.H. 9. Tune: Old 104th)
Prayer
Anthem: Psalm 150
Prayers and Lord's Prayer
Now thank we all our God (A. and M. 379; S.P. 350; Rv. C.H. 29. Tune: Nun danket)
Blessing
Closing music

News commentary and interlude

from p. 21 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 48 of ' Each Returning Day '

Presented by James Moody with The Bachelor Girls

Topical notes on wartime health, mainly by doctors

Serial geography story
Adventures in Southern seas by ' Sinbad'
2—' Treasure hunting at Crozet Island' (Indian Ocean, latitude 47
South, longitude 51 East)

Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Leighton Lucas

Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

An ENSA concert for war-workers with - Raymond Newell
Magda Kun
Charles Ernesco and his Orchestra with Mervyn Saunders

Week-end notes for women gardeners by Anna Scarlett and Elizabeth Cowell

Leader, Laurance Turner
Conducted by Maurice Johnstone
Margaret Maddison (piano)
As a result of the war Margaret Maddison , who has been broadcasting regularly for the last seven years, has temporarily transferred herself and her pianos to a super hen hut -which has been evacuated by the hens ! There she lives, and there she practises, and from there she sets out to play at National Gallery concerts in London or in some big city perhaps at the other end of England.
Born at Kettering, she comes of a musical family. Her sisters, Janet and Joyce, play with Hope Timpson in the Maddison Trio and are well known to Midland listeners.

of the BBC Singers
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
At the piano, Winifred Davey

played by the Scottish Variety Orchestra
Conducted by Ronnie Munro

at the theatre organ

played by The Catterall Quartet:
Arthur Catterall (violin)
Audrey Catterall (violin)
Lena Wood (viola)
Johan Hock (cello)

with Ma Rattigen by Janet Chance

A radio thriller by Arthur Watkyn
Cast includes:
The action of the play takes place in London, on the Ostend- Vienna Ex
Press, in the frontier town of Passau, and in the city of Vienna
Produced by T. Rowland Hughes
This radio thriller, previously broadcast in 1939, deals with two girls who find themselves inadvertently mixed up in the affairs of a clever set of crooks. The action of the play takes place in London on tne
Ostend-Vienna Express and in the frontier town of Passau. The author is a young Welsh playwright living in England. Radio plays from his pen include The Time Has Come and Hazwkmoor Farm. A few years ago his Beethoven play, Muted
Strings, was produced in the West End of London.

rhwng merched priod a merched dibriod
(A Welsh cooking bee)

' Town folk, country folk'
A feature devised by Eileen Molony At the outbreak of war thousands of children were evacuated to all parts of the West Country. They have now been in their new surroundings for nearly two years. In this afternoon's programme, you will hear of some of the interesting things the country has to offer them and how the children themselves have fitted in to their new background.

followed by National and Regional announcements

The man and his work by Desmond MacCarthy

Ida Haendel (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, George Stratton
Conducted by Sir Henry Wood
Som the Royal Albert Hall , London

A portrait of Richard Brinsley
Sheridan by L. A. G. Strong produced by Francis Dillon

(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

The persecution of the Roman
Catholic Church
The Rev. Father M. C. D'Arcy

An opera by Flotow
Abridged for broadcasting and with a new English translation by Geoffrey Dunn
L
Chorus of farmers, their wives and servants, hunters, and huntresses
Scene: Richmond and its environs in the early eighteenth century
BBC Theatre Chorus trained by Charles Groves
BBC Theatre Orchestra
Leader, Tate Gilder
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Produced by Stanford Robinson in collaboration with Mark H. Lubbock

and his Band

at the theatre organ