and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Vera Lynn , the Forces favourite

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

A thought for today
The Rev. M. R. Ridley

Details of some of today's broadcasts

The Ministry of Food's guest morning

Recent recordings of popular hits

at the theatre organ. For the Forces

News commentary and interlude

from p. 117 of 'New Every Morning' and p. 62 of ' Each Returning Day'

Dance music on the Hawaiian guitar A record programme arranged by A. P. Sharpe

Topical notes on wartime health, mainly by doctors

Serial geography story
' Living with cannibals on the New
Hebrides Islands'
Tom Harrisson
4—' Cannibal warfare : The curious part I played'

ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA

No. 52-Davy Burnaby
The interviewer, Wilfred Pickles
Produced by Richard North

More extracts from the unpublished autobiography of Elizabeth Ham , who lived through the Napoleonic Wars and started to set down her memories in the year of revolutions,
1848'
Selected and read by Eric Gillett

An ENSA concert for war-workers with . Helen McKay '
Tommy Brandon
Arthur Salisbury and the Savoy Hotel Orchestra with Victor Lyndon

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

Led by Marie Wilson
Conducted by Clarence Raybould (Orchestrated by the composer)

(Welsh airs) sung by the Cadwgan Ladies' Glee Choir
Conductress, Gwen Danford George
Codiad yr Ehedydd ; Robin Ddiog ;Pant y Pistyll ; Breuddwyd y Frenhines ; Hwb i'r Galon ;
Molawd Cymru

to records in dance time

and his Quartet playing pieces by Russian composers

(soprano)
Nora Gruhn decided at the age of three to become an operatic singer, and when she was five won a prize for singing ' I'm twenty-one today ' at a seaside minstrel show. She began composing at the age of nine. Ten years later she secured a three-years' contract for the Palatinate Opera House, singing sixty-six parts during the three years. From there she went to Cologne Opera House for a year before returning to London and joining the Covent Garden
Opera Company. She first broadcast in 1930.

by Albert Saphier

A camp concert party devised by Charles Shadwell and Vernon Harris with Helen Hill
(by courlesy of the Fol-de-Rolsi
Jack Train
Doris Hare
Donald Peers
Arthur Sandford at the piano
Tha Camp Chorus and the Veri-Neats Orchestra, conducted by Lieut. Charles
Shadwell
(late West Yorkshire Regiment)
Produced by Vernon Harris

Pigion cerddorol o'r rhaglenni a ddarlledir o Gymru i'r Ymerodraeth
Y cyfarwyddo gan Sam Jones
(Excerpts from Welsh broadcasts to the Empire)

' Four-leaf shamrocks '
Another episode from ' The turf-cutter's donkey' by Patricia Lynch
5.35 ' Make yourself observant' by Frank Gillard
Songs by Eileen Vaughan

followed by National and Regional announcements

' J. M. Barrie ' by Denis Mackail

An all-star Variety from North of the Tweed

Leader, Laurance Turner
Guest Conductor, Julius Harrison
Thomas Matthews (violin) ORCHESTRA(First performance)
ORCHESTRA Symphony No. 1, in C Beethoven

Fun and games with radio's ' silly little man ' and his satellites, Scans brick, Auntie, and Mr. Willis
The Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent
Produced by Harry S. Pepper and Gordon Crier

Piano Quartet in A, Op. 26 played by the English Ensemble :
Marjorie Hayward (violin)
Winifred Copperwheat (viola)
May Mukle (cello)
Kathleen Long (piano)
The Piano Quartet in A, which was written when Brahms was twenty-seven, is conceived on a big scale
The first movement is an eloquent and well-reasoned argument on subjects typical of the composer ; the slow movement is a glorious, dreamy fdyll the scherzo with its curious passing allusion at the ta.l-end of the chief theme to the correspond.ng theme in Mendelssohn's Piano
Trio in D minor, is, like all Brahms's scherzi, vigorous and beautifully proportioned; the finale is a brilliant and merry affair not without its moments of sentiment.

Adapted from the short story by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Constance Garnett
The scene is Olga Semyonovna's house in a provincial town in Russia at the end of the last century
Adapted and produced by Mary Allen

Anton Chekhov, the son of a tradesman whose father was a serf, was born in 1860. In his young days he studied medicine, and took his degree when he was twenty-four. As with many other doctors, however, literature attracted him more than patients, and he abandoned the sick-room for the pen.

His short story 'The Darling', to be broadcast as a play tonight, is characteristic of his skill in observing the commonplaces of human nature and recognising their dramatic significance.

Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe