and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Gus Elen, the great old-timer

Exercises for men
Coleman Smith

May Brown

An interlude

Short morning prayers

Details'of some of today's broadcasts

A man in the kitchen

A selection of records taken at random from the rack

3-J. E. Leach
J. E. Leach spent some years in charge of a 'parish' in a newly-opened district in Saskatchewan
' with a southern boundary of about
20 miles, and extending as far
North as I could get ' , where hardship and adventure were common experiences in his ordinary work.

with Helen Clare

at the theatre organ

News commentary and interlude

from p. 101 of 'New Every Morning; and p. 16 of ' Each Returning Day

played by Reginald Foort at the theatre organ

11.0 'The Musical Traveller'
Planned by John Horton
Interlude written by Philip Wade 3-' The traveller and his flute '
11.20 Intermediate French bv Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Marie Touchard
Concours: Les reconnaissezvous ? '
Chanson : '.Le vieux chalet'
11.40 Senior geography
Making the Americas
' The orchard lands of Nova Scotia ' by a Nova Scotian officer now in Britain

58-Arthur White
Interviewer, Wilfred Pickles Produced by Richard North

Arnold Goldsbrough (organ)
Eda Kersey (violin)
Marjorie Hayward (violin)
Florence Hooton (cello) Joan Lennard (contralto)
(by permission of Darlington Hall)

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

and his Band

2.0 Nature study:
' Curious tastes' by J. M. Cowan
2.15 Interval music
2.20 Physical training
(for use in classrooms) by Edith Dowling
2.35 Interval music
2.40 Senior history : 1700-1800
' The Forty-Five'
The story of a glorious failure

played by Van Straten and his Music
Although there was no musical or band tradition in his family, Van Straten and both his brothers, Joe and Leon, have taken up careers in the dance band world. Van Straten is of Dutch descent, and, apart from music lessons at sixpence a ! time at his elementary school, has : had practically no musical education. Hard work, study, and practice have got him where he is. ;
In 1924 Van Straten took on the job of turning a small light-music combination at The Hague into a dance ensemble. Returning to this country, he played in various bands, eventually joining his eldest brother, Leon, at the Ambassadors Club. Thereafter, he played at the Green Park Hotel, the Riviera Club, the Cafe Anglais, and, until recently, Quaglino's. At the moment Van Straten and his band are free-lancing, and doing a good deal of troop entertainment.

Overture : The Yellow Princess Symphony No. 2, in A minor Symphonic poem : Phaeton Marche heroique played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra
Leader, J. Mouland Begbie
Conductor, Guy Warrack
In 1835, when Saint-Saens was born, Beethoven, whose later works were then considered the last words in modernity, had been dead eight years. When Saint-Saens died, in 1921, Alban Berg had just completed Wozzeck. Thus the French composer, who had made his debut as a pianist at the age of ten, lived to see the rise and fall of the Romantic movement which connects Berg with Beethoven.
Romain Rolland, the distinguished
French critic and author, has said -that Saint-Saens ' is tormented by no passions and nothing perturbs the lucidity of his mind. At times his music seems to carry us back to Mendelssohn, to Spontini, to the school of Gluck. He brings into the midst of our present restlessness something of the sweetness and clarity of past periods, something that seems like fragments of a vanished world.'
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Matthew Norgate

An unexpected revue
Book and lyrics by Val Green
Music by Alec Howieson with Vera Lennox
Donald Peers
Wilfred Pickles
Ruth Maine
Val Green
Alec Howieson
Martin Gould and Roland Powell and his Septet
Presented by Richard North

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

5.20 ' Voice and violin '
A short programme of Welsh music arranged by Mansel Thomas
5.30 'Mystery at the mine' by Gethyn Stoodley Thomas
Episode 6 : ' 'Trapped'

followed by National and Regional announcements

' How the East of Scotland grows food'
Talk by T. A. Wedderspoon
The east coast of Scotland is not the bleak place it is sometimes imagined, but one of the richest agricultural districts in Great Britain. It is the centre of the Scotch beef trade and contains much productive cereal and potato land. Mr. Wedderspoon farms in Angus.

A little comedy with music, written by Charles Heslop
Music by Clarence Ashton
The Cavendish Three
BBC Revue Orchestra, under the direction of Hyam Greenbaum
Produced by Eric Fawcett

' First jobs '
Some young workers discuss their experiences and problems with John Hilton

by Harold Spurling
Cast :
Produced by Howard Rose

Symphony No. 4 in G played by the BBC Orchestra
Leader, Paul Beard
Conducted by Basil Cameron

by Group Captain W. Helmore

Sophie Wyss (soprano)
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Edward Silverman (violin)
Leonard Rubens (viola)
William Pleeth (cello)
Marie Korchinska (harp)

Address by the Rev. W. J. Noble

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell

and his Orchestra with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber ,
Jackie Hunter , and George Evans