and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Three Peters Sisters, dusky singers in harmony

Exercises for men
Coleman Smith

Doris Robertson

An interlude

A thought for today
The Rev. W. W. Simpson

Details of some of today's broadcasts

Guest morning
Godfrey Winn

Twenty-five minutes of rhythm with Kay Cavendish

at the theatre organ

Introductory music Prayer
Hymn : Through the night of doubt and sorrow (A. and M. 274 ; S.P. 678 ; C.H. 214). (Tune : St. Oswald)
Trusting in Christ's way
Prayers : The Prayer for Help and Lord's Prayer
Hymn : Thy Kingdom come, 0 God
(A. and M. 217; C.H. 152). (Tune : St. Cecilia)
Blessing
Closing music

News commentary and interlude

from p. 69 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 30 of ' Each Returning Day'

A programme of gramophone records
London Palladium Orchestra, conductor, J. Frere : The liberators (Anclifje)
Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, conducted by Capt. J. C. Windram : Hands across the sea
(Sousa) .
Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, conducted by Lt.-Col. J. Miller : Fighting strength (Jordan)
Band of H.M. Royal Marines, conducted by Major F. J. Ricketts : Semper fidelis (Sousa)

Topical notes on wartime health, mainly by doctors

11.0 Music and movement for infants
Kathleen Ortmans
11.20 Interlude
11.25 Speech training for Scottish schools
Anne H. McAlister , D.Sc.
11.45 Talks for sixth forms
' Equipping ourselves to understand '
' Virtue in writing '
Desmond MacCarthy

Programme of gramophone records
Presented by Walter Legge

An ENSA eight-course musical luncheon with the Kneller Hall Band (Royal Military
School of Music)
Coronation Trumpeters
Male Voice Chorus
Under the personal direction of Lt.-Col. H. E. Adkins , Mus.Doc.,
Commandant

by Elizabeth Cowell and Anna Scarlett

for factory workers
John McKenna (tenor)
Eda Kersey (violin)
Gerald Moore (piano) JOHN MCKENNA EDA KERSEY GERALD MOORE EDA KERSEY. JOHN MCKENNA
Organised by the Council for the Encouragement of Music and Art
From a factory

2.0 Travel talks : Modem Africa
' In a Southern Nigerian village' by Joyce Stock
2.15 Interval music
2.20 'If you were American' by Nora Wain
' The Liberty Bell is rung in Philadelphia'
2.40 Orchestral concert series
' Mendelssohn and his music ' by Thomas Armstrong , D.Mus.
An introduction to the composer, with examples from his piano and orchestral works

played by Jack Jackson and his Orchestra

Viola sonata played by Winifred Copperwheat (viola) and Frank Merrick (piano)

at the theatre organ

Janet Chance

Leader, Tate Gilder
Conducted by Harold Lowe
March : London Bridge.....Eric Coates Overture : Shamus O'Brien. ..Stanford
Valse de la reine Coleridge-Taylor Bourrce and Gigue (Much Ado about
Nothing) ................ Edward German
A la minuet Flnck Sevillana ...................................... Elg̀ar

Sgwrs gan E. 0. Jones
(A talk in Welsh)

5.20 A story for the younger listeners 'Piccadilly Circus, or the silly snail', by Stephen Bone
Some songs by Ronald Gourley
545 'Ann's island'
A talk by R. M. Lockley

followed by National and Regional announcements

Fortnightlv news and views about books, pictures, science, and films, presented by Joseph Macleod

' The gramophone and you '
Alec Robertson with three members of the Forces and one from the Civil Defence service- will discuss gramophone Proms and other matters of interest to the gramophile.

A series of broadcasts by all sorts of people, concerned chiefly to discuss what is the nature and authority of thought and what can be expected from thinking
3-' Do women think like men ? '
A discussion between :
Elizabeth Bowen
Phyllis Vallance
G. M. Young
John Mabbott

Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Noel Eadie (soprano)

NOEL EADIE AND ORCHESTRA

Noel Eadie was born at Paisley, and educated at the famous St. Leonards School at St. Andrews, Fife. She later studied singing in London. She has sung in opera all over the country, and has appeared a great many times at Sadler's Wells as guest-artist in various operas.
She sang in the first performance in this country of Hindemith's Mathis the Painter, before which she had appeared at Queen's Hall in Mozart's Requiem Mass, conducted by Bruno Walter. She has also appeared in two Glyndebourne seasons.

ORCHESTRA

NOEL EADIE AND ORCHESTRA

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

Dramatic reconstruction by P. H. Burton
Produced by T. Rowland Hughes
Nearly a year ago, the oil-tanker San Demetrio, sailing in the famous Jervis Bay Convoy, was hit and set on fire. After two days in an open boat. sixteen of her crew re-boarded the burning tanker, put out. the fires, and without compass, map, or chart, accomplished the almost impossible feat of bringing her safely to an English port.
'This said the official report,
' is an epic which will go down in history whenever tales of the sea are told.'

(By permission of the Colonel Com-mandanlandOfficers)
Conducted by Mr. Arthur Hibbert

and postscript

and his Band

The Rendezvous Players, directed by Sidney Crooke