and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Nancy Evans (contralto)

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women : May Brown

An interlude

A thought for today : Rev. Father John Murray , S.J.

' Children's food problems '

An invitation was sent to well-known British and American artists to entertain you this morning. Their replies are now heard in a musical way. Record programme devised and presented by David Miller

Conductor, W. Foster

Topical magazine programme

News commentary and interlude

from p. 33 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 50 of ' Each Returning Day '

Tivoli Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Clifford Jordan

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS : Esmee Bushnell
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
11.40 HOW THINGS BEGAN: 'Eggs with shells ', by Honor Wyatt

Marion Browne and Thorpe Bates , accompanied by the BBC Salon Orchestra ; conductor, Leslie Bridge water

Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite
(First performance)

(organ)
From a Midland concert hall
G. D. Cunningham has been an organist practically all his life. At the Royal Academy of Music he won the Henry Smart Scholarship for organ-playing, and while studying at the Academy was appointed organist at the West Hampstead Congregational Church. Since 1901 he has been organist at Alexandra Palace, London, St. James's Church, Muswell Hill, Holy Trinity Church, Stroud Green , and St. Alban's Church, Holborn. He finally became organist to the City of Birmingham.

1.50 music MAKING : by Cyril Winn , and a group of children
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE : 'The body's own defences Professor Doris Mackinnon
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH : An African folk tale adapted for broadcasting by Julia Goodey

Frederic Curzon at the theatre organ

Talk by R. M. Lockley
.
R. M. Lockley is well known for his books on islands : ' Dream Island ', 'I
Know an Island ', etc. Now, after thirteen years of island life, off the Welsh coast, he has taken on a derelict farm on the mainland of Pembrokeshire, as part of his war effort.

Howard Ferguson and Denis Matthews
Darius Milhaud , one of the most prolific of modern French composers, was at one time a member of the famous group known as ' The Six '. His output includes operas, ballets, oratorios, orchestral and chamber works, piano pieces, and songs.
His Suite for two pianos ' Scaramouche ' was first performed by the composer and Marcelle Meyer at a BBC studio concert in December 1937. In a RADIO TIMES article Alan Frank said of it : ' It is a very simple work, written with great economy and clarity, and often reminiscent of Milhaud's earlier sympathy with the music of the circus and music-hall. In the middle of the first movement, for instance, there is a real hearty, vulgar tune with somewhat jazzy accompaniment ; and the easy-going theme of the middle moderato movement has a distinctly popular flavour.'
Scaramouche, by the way, was the stock buffoon character of seventeenth-century Italian comedies.

Conducted by Harold Lowe
Francis Russell (tenor)

(Special announcements or topical talk in Welsh)

' The Queen and Mr. Shakespeare , a play by David Scott Daniell
Followed by Children's Hour prayers

followed by National and Regional announcements

F. H. Grisewood brings to the microphone people in the news, people talking about the news, and interesting visitors to Britain

A village concert. Master of ceremonies, Farmer Will Watchet. Some famous visitors have promised to appear. Charles Shadwell and the BBC Variety Orchestra will definitely be there, and. Harry S. Pepper will try to broadcast it.

' An Army officer's point of view' : by Lieut. Ian Macaulay

From a concert hall in the South. Clifford Curzon (piano). BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard ), conducted by Leslie Heward

Radio play by Peter Cheyney. Produced by John Cheatle

Conductor, Hyam Greenbaum

Talk by George Blake

Strings of the BBC Scottish Orchestra.

Some poems of Robert Browning , read by Cecil Trouncer

and his Band