and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Frank Crumit

Popular artists and bands on gramophone records

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

Details of some of today's broadcasts

' A man about the kitchen '
Freddy Grisewood

Dance music on gramophone records

at the theatre organ
Banner's barrage

News commentary and interlude

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

Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Conductor, W. Foster

Junior English
Chaucer: 1-Prologue to Canterbury Tales, arranged as a play by Jean Sutcliffe
The pilgrims meet at Southwark, and a plan is made to shorten the long journey to Canterbury

and the Blackpool West Pier
Orchestra

Olive Groves and George Baker with the BBC Salon Orchestra Leader, Jean Pougnet
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

CAPACITY'
A programme of song-hits from famous musical shows with Marion Browne
Ivor John
Lloyd Gwyther
The Revue Chorus and Orchestra, conducted by Idris Lewis Presented by Mai Jones

A five-minute talk to the women behind the fighting line

and his Band

and his Versatile Five

played by Percy Whitlock

played by Jack Dowle at the theatre organ

Jack Dowle was sub-organist at St. Peter's Church, Cranley Gardens, at the age of eleven. Five years ago he was appointed assistant to Harold Ramsay at the Granada, Tooting. He was a member of the original 'Eight-Piano Symphony' and a member for some time of the famous Rhythm Symphony Orchestra, of which he was part-founder.
Between 1937 and 1939 he toured Union Cinemas in a team of all-star theatre organists, and in the latter year he was appointed to the Kingston-on-Thames Regal. His signature tune is 'Spread a little happiness', from Mr. Cinders.

played by Louis Freeman and his Band

A programme of his ballets and madrigals
BBC Singers (A)
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Flora gave me fairest flowers
Sweet honey-sucking bees (first part) Yet sweet, take heed Dear pity, how; ? oh how ?
Thou art but young, thou say'st The Lady Oriana
John Wilbye (1574-1638) was one of the most distinguished madrigal composers of his period. Very little was known about his life until shortly before the last war. when Dr. E. H. Fellowes found Wilbye's will in Somerset House and opened up a line of research. The records reveal that Wilbye spent most of his life as musician in Sir Thomas Kytson 's household at Hengrave Hall, near Bury St. Edmunds, and on Lady Kytson's death he retired and went to live at Colchester in the house of Lady Rivers, the younger daughter.
Among his compositions are two sets of madrigals, published in 1598 and 1609, which are some of the loveliest ever written.

Matthew Norgate

with Molly Johnson
Helga Stone
Norman Teal
Val Green and Alec Howieson and Jack Cannon and his Band
Produced by Richard North

(Studio Service in Welsh)
Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r Ilyfr Bob
Bore o Newydd '

5.20 'Wizard of Kilsein'
Another comedy by Rhys Dafys Williams, based on an old Welsh tradition
5—' Robin and Parson's pain '
5.40 My lady goes a-marketing'
A programme of songs by the Glamorgan Sextet

followed by National and Regional announcements

A black-faced minstrel show
Devised and produced by Harry S. Pepper
Bones, tambourines, corner men, crack banjo team, stump speech, old and new melodies
The cast includes:
Scott and Whaley; Ike Hatch ; C. Denier Warren ; Fred Yule ; the Kentucky Banjo Team ; Dick Pepper ,
Edward Fairs , Bernard Sheaff
BBC Variety Orchestra
Male Voice Choir, trained by Mansel Thomas
Conducted by Charles Shadwell
At the organ, Reginald Foort
Music arranged by Doris Arnold , and orchestrated by Wally Wallond
Book written and remembered by C. Denier Warren

Louis Kentner (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, George Stratton
Conducted by Basil Cameron
LOUIS KENTNER AND ORCHESTRA
Piano concerto No. 2, in F minor
Chopin Completed in 1830, when Chopin was twenty years of age, the F minor Concerto was really his first concerto, as the so-called No. 1 in E minor was written afterwards but was the first to be published. The brilliant and individual treatment of the piano must have appeared startling at its inception.
From the Royal Albert Hall , London

Material collected by Stephen Potter

Major-General R. J. Collins , C.B.,
C.M.G., D.S.O.

(Second series, No. 19)
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 :
Max Bacon
' Can you beat the band ? '
The Town Hall Orchestra, under the direction of Billy Ternent
Weekly meeting organised by Gladys and Clay Keyes and presented by Eric Spear

Address by the Rev. J.E. Fenn, Assistant Director of Religious Broadcasting

Kathleen Moorhouse (cello)
Frank Merrick (piano)

and his Dance Orchestra