and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Count Basie, the maestro of 'jump' music.

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

A thought for today
Melville Dinwiddie

Details of some of today's broadcasts

A man in the kitchen

A selection of records taken at random from the rack

1-Fred Shuttleworth
Some people seek adventure, others have adventure thrust upon them. In this new North Country series all kinds of people with adventurous and unusual life stories are takmg part.
Fred Shuttleworth is the representative of a North Country firm trading with West Africa His ordinary business took him, by car, canoe, and even bicycle, to the native market seldom visited by Europeans, and his 'territory included the town of Timbuctoo.

Under the direction of Jean Pougnet

at the theatre organ
Tunes of the times

News commentary and interlude

from p. 13 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 26 of ' Each Returning Day'

. played by Charles Smart at the theatre organ

and his Orchestra with Dorothy Stanton
Musical comedy-Episode 2

A peep into the Miners' Institute, Cwmcaws, on the morning of the concert by the local male-voice party.
Artists engaged to appear are
Haydn Adams and Ethel Gomer Lewis
The hall is being decorated by the ladies of the village, and others present there are Mr. Jenkins (emporium), Mr. Mendelssohn Hughes (official accompanist), Dai and Mwkyn, not forgetting Baden Haig
Powell (the village pest)
Script by W. P. Thomas
Produced by Mai Jones

played by Berkeley Mason

A five-minute talk to the women behind the fighting-line
Irene Ward , M.P.

and his Band with Diane, Beryl Davis , Bob Dale , Jan Zalski , and Eddie Palmer at the novachord

Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack

British history
' The last days of Charles I'
Extracts from the King's trial and his speech on the scaffold, arranged for broadcasting by Rhoda Power

Van Straten and his Music

Legends, Op. 59, No. 1, in D minor Slavonic dances Qp. 46, No. 7, in C minor
From the Bohemian Forest : Restful
_woods Op. 65
Legends, Op. 59, No. 8, in F
Slavonic dances Op. 46, No. 8, in G played by Alec Rowley and Edgar Moy

Conducted by Mr. F. L. Statham

Matthew Norgate

Jimmie Jewel and Ben Warriss with artists from the King's Theatre, Glasgow, supported by the Scottish Variety Orchestra conducted by Ronnie Munro
Programme presented by Tom Dawson

(Studio service in Welsh)
Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r Uyfr
' Bob Bore o Newydd '

5.20 'The true story of
Jonathan Pippin ' by Ivy 0. Eastwick
Read by Olive Harris
5.30 ' Mystery at the mine ' by Gethyn Stoodley Thomas
Episode 2—' The rival reporters '

followed by National and Regional announcements

' A problem for Mrs. Steve Barlow
Devised by Mary Somerville and Nancy Hussey , in collaboration with Ronald Gow
Produced by George Dixon

A glimpse at St. Uvala's from all angles
Book and lyrics by Michael Treford
Music by Billy Milton
Accompanied by the School Choral Society and the Variety Orchestra, conducted, by Charles Shadwell
Produced by Michael North

sung by Olga Haky (contralto)

A new play for broadcasting by William Lander
[Starring] Ronald Squire
The scene is laid in a London restaurant today; and in a theatrical drawing-room and a provincial hotel some years ago.

with Nuna Davy
Elsie French and John Mott
Joan Gates
Archie Harradine
Don Gemmell
Joanna Horder
Joan Stemdale-Bennett
Chairman, Leonard Sachs
At the piano, Cornelius Fisher

by Group-Captain W. Helmore

Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by W. H. Reed

Address by the Rev. M. A. C. Warren

or ' Aesop doesn't live here any more'
Another ' thing' by Gordon Crier
With music by Michael North
Sheep, wolves, and a small boy
BBC Revue Chorus and Augmented Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
Produced by Gordon Crier

and his Band