and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Vera Lynn , the Forces favourite

Exercises for men
Coleman Smith

An interlude

Short morning prayers

Programme Parade
Details of some of today's broadcasts

Guest morning

Records of tunes from the talkies, past, present, and future
News and gossip from the film studios
Arranged and presented by Charles Maxwell

at the theatre organ

Introductory music
Older of Service
Prayer
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven (A. and M. 298; S.P. 623; C.H. 21. Tune: Praise, my soul)
Joseph forgives his brothers
Prayers: The prayer for pardon and Lord's Prayer
Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost (S.P. 507, vv. 1, 2, 3, 4; A. and M. 210, vv. 1, 2, 3, 5; C.H. 484, w. 1, 4, 5, 6. Tune: Cape Town)
Blessing
Closing music

News commentary and interlude

from p. 29 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 52 of ' Each Returning Day'

Duettists in rhythm on gramophone records

Topical notes on wartime health, mainly by doctors

11.0 Music and movement for infants
Kathleen Ortmans
11.20 Interval music
11.25 Speech training for Scottish schools
Anne H. McAllister , D.Sc.
11.45 Talks for sixth forms
Current affairs

Jack Phillips

Another talk by A. G. Street

An ENSA concert for war-workers with Helen Clare , Max Wall , Arthur Salisbury and the Savoy Hotel Orchestra, with Cyril Shane

Weekend notes for women gardeners by Elizabeth Cowell and Anna Scarlett

(First of a new public series)
BBC Orchestra
Led by Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
From a concert-hall in the South

2.0 Travel talks
Modern Africa
' Dakar and its hinterland ' by Capt. Pulter
2.15 Interval music
2.20 ' If you were American '
Meet Miss Nora Wain
The, President of the Board of Education, the Rt. Hon. R. A. Butler , P.C., M.P., will introduce Miss Wain, the American writer, who in this series will tell children stories of her family to illustrate some of the things which have gone to make the American way of life.
2.40 Orchestral concert series
' Listening to an orchestra'
Reginald Jacques , D.Mus.
Dr. Jaccmes will first describe the various families that make up the full orchestra. and will then ask players of the flute, cor anglais. trumpet, kettledrums and cello to illustrate some of the possibilities of their instruments.

A programme of rhythmic records

Conductor, George Walter

sung by the BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate
At the piano, John Wills
There is sweet music Deep in my soul 0 wild west wind Owls

by Janet Chance

Our obstinate compere with the Two Rascals, Walter Jackson, and Mollie Weir and the Scottish Variety Orchestra, conducted by Ronnie Munro
Programme devised by Tom Dawson

Sgwrs gan Myfyr Mon
(A talk in Welsh)

'Through the Book'
The last story from 'The Turf-cutter's Donkey', by Patricia Lynch, read by Fraser Mayne
Last week you heard how one of the characters in Eileen's story-book came to life and got himself into trouble at the fair. Now you will hear how Eileen, in rescuing the little dark man, jumped through her story-book, and was carried back into olden times, and how she and Seamus suddenly found themselves taking part in the history of long ago.

5.40 Folk tunes and dances played by the BBC Military Band, conducted by P.S.G. O'Donnell

followed by National and Regional announcements

The man and his work
Talk by Desmond MacCarthy

Leader, Laurance Turner
Guest conductor, Richard Austin
Rachmaninoff's orchestral fantasy ' The Rock' was composed on a summer holiday in 1893 when Rachmaninoff was twenty years of age. Tchaikovsky liked it so much that he said he would take it on his next European conducting tour and play it at all his concerts, but unfortunately he died before he could do this.
It was given its first performance in England when Rachmaninoff made his debut at Queen's Hall at one of the Royal Philharmonic Society's concerts. According to R. S. Coke, conductor of the Brookhill Symphony Orchestra, Derbyshire, and an authority on Rachmaninoff, 'The Rock' was not again played in England until last February, when Richard Austin performed it with the Brookhill Symphony Orchestra at Southwell Minster.
' The Rock ' which is Rachmaninoff's first symphonic poem, is based on a poem of Lermontov.

A radio dramatisation of one day in the life of the R.A.F. Coastal Command
The programme was prepared with , the co-operation of the Air Ministry, and in collaboration with officers and crews of ' Coastal'
Written and produced by Cecil McGivern
Since the beginning of the war, but never more vigorously than in recent months, the work of Coastal Command has been running its daily schedule of patrol and offensive operation. The command itself is split into several sections, all . of which undertake specific tasks under all sorts and conditions, and in every kind of weather.
This evening's programme will describe the work of the many types of aircraft employed by Coastal Command, paying particular attention to the various kinds of aircraft in the service.

Tommy Handley
(with a plan again) and Jack Train , Horace Percival , Sydney Keith , Clarence Wright , Dino Galvani , Fred Yule , Dorothy Summers , Kay Cavendish , Paula
Green
BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell
Script by Ted Kavanagh
Produced by Francis Worsley

A problem play which raises the question ' Was she ? ' by Dale Collins
Produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith

Trio in C (composed 1921) Cornish boat song Little folk dance played by the Kamaran Trio :
Marjorie Hayward (violin)
Antonia Butler (cello)
Kathleen Markwell (piano)

with Violin solos by Tom Jenkins

and his Band