and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

A weekly ration of records made by America's Crooner Number One

Popular artists and bands fall in for your entertainment on gramophone records

A thought for today
R. W. Moore, Headmaster of Bristol Grammar School

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

Freddy Grisewood talks about
' What's growing'

at the theatre organ

Records of some famous American artists who have performed on the English stage
Written and arranged by Harold Rogers

Ethelfloed Knight-Bruce
Miss Knight-Bruce will herself explain the odd title of her talk, which deals with the activities of the Bermondsey Shelter Council in bringing Shakespeare to the shelters of East London, and planning further developments for the future.

and his Orchestra

News commentary and interlude

from p. 93 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 32 of ' Each Returning Day'

A programme of gramophone records of the American Legion Band of Hollywood
Sousa
Liberty Bell
Stars and stripes for ever
Hail to the spirit of Liberty Hands across the sea

A magazine programme for women in which all aspects of running a horn* in wartime are discussed

Serial story
' The prince and the pauper ' adapted as a radio play by Rhodt
Power from Mark Twain 's historical fantasy, which tells how Edward VI changed places with Tom Canty , the beggar boy

Leader, Laurance Turner
Conducted by Maurice Johnstone

Conducted by Mr. F. J. Harris
Royal Artillery slow march

A lunch-time concert presented to their fellow workers by members of the staff of a munition works ' somewhere in England'
Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe

Raymond Gram Swing
(A

played by Tom Bromley and George Mantle
. Childe

A short story written for broadcasting by L. A. G. Strong and read by the author

Love and war as seen by composers
The third and last of a series of gramophone programmes presented by Sidney Harrison

By Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald

played by George Scott-Wood and his Band

from a school chapel
Order of Service
Versicles and Responses Psalm 67
First Lesson : Hosea 6, vv. 1-6 Magnificat (Stanford in B flat)
Second Lesson: St. Mark 12, vv.
38-44
Nunc dimittis (Stanford in B flat) Creed and Collects
Anthem : Jesu, joy of man's desiring
(Bach)
Prayers
Oft in danger oft in woe (A. and M. 291)

(Second series-No. 18)
A weekly gathering of famous folk
Master of Ceremonies, Clay Keyes ,
Richard Goolden as Old Ebenezer, the night-watchman, with Gladys Keyes as Martha, his daughter
' The musical newsreel'
This week's famous visitor :
Freddie Bamberger and ' Can you beat the band ? '
The Town Hall Orchestra under the direction of Billy Ternent
Weekly meetings organised by Gladys and Clay Keyes , and presented to you by Eric Spear
(A recording of lastv Thursday's broadcast)

sung by Mary Hamlin (soprano)
In these days, for the second time in her life, Mary Hamlin is using her lovely voice to help on a national effort. During the last war, when only in her teens, she used to rush away from school and sing to soldiers in neighbouring hospitals. Now, in 1941, she is doing a great deal of singing in Britain's factories. Throughout the winter blitz she sang in shelters and rest centres.
Mary Hamlin was with the Wireless Singers from 1929 to- 1933, when she left them to take up concert work all over the country. It was while doing this that her interest in national song was aroused. She is particularly fascinated by songs of the Baltic countries, whose languages she has studied to enable her to do justice to her material. This afternoon she is singing many American songs to be heard for the first time in this country-some of them she thinks almost equal to German lieder.

(Welsh Children's Hour)
Rhaglen o ganeuon gan G6r Plant Nantyffyllon o dan arweiniad D. C. Watkins

"The Caliph stork'
Lang's fairy story made into a play by Muriel Levy

followed by National and Regional announcements

Sir Bernard Pares , K.B.E.

Scottish music for dancing played by William Hannah 's Band with a few observations about the dances, the dancers, and the music

A radio documentary on the movement of American public opinion from the outbreak of war to the passage of the Lease and Lend Bill
Compiled by Robert Speaight
Produced by Laurence Gilliam

starring
Sarah Churchill and Vic Oliver with a famous ' guess ' star
' The private life of Vic Oliver ' and ' London sings '
Barclay's Bank Operatic Society
Jay Wilbur and his Orchestra
Produced by Ronald Waldman
(A special

(Again)
Another programme of songs from ' filmusicals '
Presented by Douglas Moodie with Gwen Catley , John Singer , Joan
Young
BBC Revue Chorus, trained by Mansel Thomas and the Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra
Leader, Frank Cantell
Conducted by Charles Shadwell

Evening prayers

played by the Catterall Quartet :
Arthur Catterall (violin) Audrey Catterall (violin)
Lena Wood (viola) Johan Hock (cello)
Although Sibelius was intensely interested in chamber music during his early days, he has written only three chamber works: a String Quartet in B flat, which is still in MS. (1890), the String Quartet 'Voces Intimae' (1909), and 'Suite Mignonne' for two flutes and strings (1921).
' Voces Intimae ' was partly written in 1908 while Sibelius was staying in London. It is a fine and characteristic work, the most striking feature of which, says Cecil Gray in his monograph on the composer, ' is the extreme prevalence of conjunct motion-almost the entire thematic material of all five movements is built up from fragments of scale passages
Italian Serenade
The Italian Serenade is, with the exception of a very early quartet for strings, the only chamber work written by Hugo Wolf , who was pre-eminently a song writer. The Serenade has been transcribed for small orchestra. It was first performed as a quartet in. Vienna in 1904, the year following Wolf's death, and quickly became popular with chamber-music players.

and his Band