and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Joan Hammond , Australian soprano

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women :
Doris Robertson

An interlude

Short morning prayers

' Foreign flavours at home '

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

at the theatre organ
Banner's Barrage

Conductor, Richard Crean
Arthur Cranmer (baritone)
ORCHESTRA
AR IHUR C.RANMER AN'D ORCHESTRA
ORCHESTRA
ARTHUR CRANMER AND ORCHESTRA
ORCHESTRA

from p. 49 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 44 of ' Each Returning Day'

Van Straten and his Music

Gramophone records presented by Eva Martin

Another unmaidenly episode featuring Diana Morrison , assisted by Philip Garston-Jones and Jack Wilson. Produced by Martyn C. Webster

Conductor, Guy Warrack

Lunch-time entertainment for factory workers relayed from a factory somewhere in Britain

' Those winter eggs ', by Alan Thompson and H. Eisen
This afternoon Alan Thompson talks about winter egg production for the domestic poultry-keeper with H. Eisen. a voluntary organiser in North London for the Domestic Poultry Keepers' Council

Conducted by Boyd Neel

in a record programme of American folk songs from his collection

and his Laager Lads, presenting Voortrekker tunes in dance tempo. Devised by Hyman Sachs

Soldiers compete in parlour games with women residing in Northern Ireland. Chairman, Frederick Combe
3.10 Introduction to

Act 2 of Mussorgsky's comic opera, from a theatre in the South
London Symphony Orchestra (Leader, George Stratton ). Conductor, Anatole Fistoulari. Produced by George Kirsta and Catherine Devillier.

Radio play adapted by Maurice Brown from the story by Dacre Balsdon
Other parts played by Tom Jones , Donald Wells , P. M. Burton and Betty Cooper. Produced by T. Rowland Hughes

Introduction and rondo capriccios : played by Max Rostal (violin)

with Marjorie Farrage , Frank Dey , Adrian Foley and Gloria Green, Emme Walmsley and John Baron , and Stanley North and his Band. Produced by Richard North

Y gyntaf o ddwy sgwrs gan y Parch. J. Gwyn Jones yn trin perthynas yr Eglwys a'r Wladwriaeth (Religious talk in Welsh)

Story for the youngest listener : ' Bertie Butterbeak 's Holiday' by Muriel Fyfe
The Kirkintilloch Children's Choir, conducted by the Rev. John R. Mac pherson
Fireside fun (popular parlour games)

National and Regional announcements

An adventure of the sea in six episodes. With Henry Oscar , Tucker McGuire , Sonnie Hale , Ivan Brandt. Script by Phillips Leaver and Ernest Dudley. Lyrics by Max Kester. Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith . Orchestrations by Hal Evans. Part 5 —' Action Stations '
Officers and men of the Royal Navy and the German Navy. Augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum. Produced by Vernon Harris

' Once again we stop the London traffic in order to bring to you some of the interesting people who are In Town Tonight.' Introducing personalities from every walk of life in interviews with Elizabeth Cowell and Roy Rich. Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan

N. A. Beechman , M.P.

No. 11—' Orion '. Written by Thomas Woodrooffe. Produced by Peter Watts
The name ' Orion ' is one that has long been associated with deeds of daring in the British Navy. The present cruiser Orion distinguished herself hy coming through the Battle of Matapan with flying colours. Before her. the battleship Orion fought at Jutland, and the first Orion of them all, launched in 1787, fought in more actions than any other ship of the Fleet. These included 'The Glorious First of June', the Battle of the Nile, and Trafalgar. The French had good reason to dub this ship the ' Little Black Devil '.
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Nosmo King, Tommy Farr , Billy Fordham , BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Compere, Philip Slessor. Presented by John Sharman

Elmer Davis

Written by Martin Barnes and produced by Peter Watts
The alliance of this country with Portugal is the oldest in Europe-it dates back to 1147, when English Crusaders helped to win back Lisbon from the Moors. But it was not until a few years before the war that the English really began to know Portugal, when the lovely scenery and delightful climate began to draw visitors to the ' costa da sol Even in wartime, Lisbon is almost the last capital in Europe without a black-out ; Nazis, British, Americans, in fact, representatives of practically every nation, still rub shoulders in the streets and cafes.

Shortened form of Evensong

Conducted by Clarence Raybould
The Crown of India
Long before Sir Edward Elgar was made Master of the King's Musick he was associated in the public mind with the same position in music which the Poet Laureate holds in hterature, and whenever there was occasion for public music it was natural to turn to Elgar to write it.
In 1912, when King George V paid a visit to India for the Coronation Durbar, there was staged at the London Coliseum a masque entitled The Crown of India, in popular commemoration of the event. The masque made an impressive pageant, and a marked feature of the. production was the music written by Elgar to accompany the masque. From the music this suite for orchestra was later made and has proved one of the most popular of Elgar's ceremonial works.

and his Band