and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Rina Ketty, French cabaret star

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

A thought for today
The Rev. McEwan Lawson

Details of some of today's broadcasts

This week's posers by Mary Edwards , demonstrate at
A Ministry of Food advice centre

A mixed choice of records
The high spot will be the ' Merchant of Venice' suite, played by the London Palladium Orchestra, conducted by Clifford Greenwood

at the theatre organ
Continental melodies
Three film favourites

Some everyday contrasts between
Scotland and the States

News commentary and interlude

from p. 81 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 42 of ' Each Returning Day'

played by John Reynders with his Orchestra

Singing together by Herbert Wiseman
Strawberry fair (English folk song)
My bonnie is over the ocean
(Students' song)
The drummer and the cook (Sailors' song)

An entertainment by the Glasgow
Police Concert Party
Presented by Tom Dawson

played by James Phillips (cello)
Geoffrey Corbett (piano)

(A recording of yesterday's broadcast)

followed by a recording of last night's postscript by Dorothy Thompson

Brandenburg concerto No. 3, in G played by the BBC Northern Orchestra
Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan

Conducted by Mr. Arthur Hibbert

played by Reginald Foort at the theatre organ

by Vera Ashe

Conducted by Julius Harrison
Suite: Pelleas and Melisande (1 At the castle gate ; 2 Melisande ; 3 On the sea-shore ; 4 A spring in the park ; 5 The three blind sisters ; 6 Pastorale ; 7 Melisande at the spinning-wheel ; 8 Entr'acte)
Sibelius
Four episodes for chamber orchestra (1 Humoresque macabre ; 2 Obsession ; 3 Calm ; 4 Chinese
Bloch
Maeterlinck's very beautiful play Pelleas and Melisande has inspired several great composers to write music for it. The greatest of all is undoubtedly Debussy's opera. Next in importance comes Schönberg's very elaborate and highly ingenious symphonic poem. Slighter in musical content and treatment, but perhaps even truer to the atmosphere of Maeterlinck and the spirit of the drama, is Faure's exquisitely beautiful incidental music to the play.
Sibelius also wrote incidental music for a production of the play in 1905, and 'it is indeed extraordinary that the Finnish composer has interpreted so well the subtle atmosphere of this French symbolist play.

with Rita Williams

a cherddi eraill
Darlleniad o gerddi diweddar o waith Dyfnallt
Rhaglen o dan ofal T. Rowland
Hughes
(Poems in Welsh)

The story of Bertie Butterbeak's war effort by Muriel Fyfe
Nursery rhymes for the youngest listener, sung by J. W. Taylor
Selections by the John MacArthur Quintet
A talk to stamp collectors, by A. Keith Macdonald

followed by National and Regional announcements

London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, George Stratton
Conducted by Sir Henry Wood
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 5, in E minor
From the Royal Albert Hall , London Tchaikovsky began his Fifth Symphony in June 1888, and finished it by the middle of August. Like its predecessor, the Fourth, it is dominated by a motto theme stated at the very beginning — theme that savagely interrupts the passionate love song of the slow movement and falls like a melancholy shadow across the end of the waltz, but is triumphantly transformed in the finale.
This motto theme appears to have been borrowed from Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, which he was re-studying at the very time he began the symphony.
The clue to the programmatic
' meaning ' of the motto theme may therefore possibly lie in the words to which Glinka's phrase is set : ' Do not turn to sorrow (the hour of our re-union).'

A short story by Algernon Black -wood, read by the author

Presented by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman
Eric Winstone
'Calling X2!'
The twenty-second of a series of counter-espionage adventures written by Ernest Dudley with Jack Melford as British Agent X2
'Something old - Something new' Famous song-writers then and now
Beryl Orde
'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

Eric Winstone, musician, journalist, and composer, may certainly be accounted one of the country's foremost exponents of the accordion, with which he will entertain listeners tonight. As a writer, he is associated with a well-known paper for musicians, and is known both as a band-leader and as a composer of orchestral music. Recent compositions of his include 'Oasis' and 'Mirage', popular band numbers now being frequently broadcast. With his Swing Quartette he has played in many radio programmes, including 'Music While You Work', and that recent rousing feature, 'Battle of the Bands'.

Based by Francis Beeding on his novel of the same name
The chief characters in this adventure spy story of the present war are:
An English hero, a German heroine, various spies and professors,, and the famous Colonel Granby himself
Herr Hitler also appears
Produced by John Cheatle with the BBC Repertory Company

A programme of his songs and piano pieces by William Parsons (baritone) and the composer
Five sixteenth-century poems :
A thanksgiving
All in a garden green An aside
A report song
The sweet season
Piano pieces :
April ; Ragamuffin (London
Pieces, No. 2)
Songs :
The bells of San Marie
0 happy land (First performance) Great things
John Ireland is one of the most distinguished British composers. Although he has written a few outstanding symphonic works, he excels as a composer of music and the smaller forms for voice and piano. Tonight's programme includes two of his most popular piano pieces, ' April ' and ' Ragamuffin '.
It is also notable for the first performance of his new song 'O happy land'. The words are by W. J. Linton , a rather obscure nineteenth-century poet. According to the composer, they ' strike a note in the home life of England which would appeal, very generally at the present time

An anthology collected by H. Kemball Cook , and produced by Mary Allen
Speakers :
Grizelda Hervey
Ivan Samson Leslie French Ralph Truman