and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Les Allen, Canadian Variety and recording star

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith

An interlude

A thought for today: Rev. Laurens Sargent

A man in the kitchen

Selection of records taken at random from the rack

Talk by John Holness

Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

at the theatre organ

News commentary and interlude

from p. 57 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 18 of ' Each Returning Day'

H. Robinson Cleaver at the theatre organ

11.0. THE MUSICAL TRAVELLER : 8-The Traveller's wedding anniversary. Planned by John Horton. Interlude written by Philip Wade
11.20 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Madeleine Duranton : Visite a Lyon '
11.40 SENIOR GEOGRAPHY : Making the Americas-Britain in America : ' Paper from the forests ' : J. Turner

The Amadio Trio: John Amadio (flute); Kathleen Moorhouse (cello); Maurice Jacobson (piano)

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

Five-minute talk to the women behind the fighting line

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

2.0 NATURE STUDY: As light as air ? ', by Frank Gillard
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 : Benjamin Franklin and the Declaration of Independence, illustrating the causes of the revolt of the American colonists

Percival Mackey and his Band

Sentimental sequence devised and arranged by Fred Hartley , with George Melachrino singing, and Fred Hartley and his Music

at the theatre organ

Edmund Seagrave

Doris Droy is on the ' Back Kitchen Front' again, assisted by husband Frank, with Robert Wilson , Mackenzie Reid , and Pipe-Major John Macdonald , and the Scottish Variety Orchestra, conducted by Ronnie Munro. Script devised by A. P. Wilson. Presented by Tom Dawson

Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r Hyfr ' Bob Bore o Newydd '. (Studio Service in Welsh)

5.20 ' Down to the sea ' : programme for mermaids, devised by Eileen Molony
5.45 'grains and their names': talk by K. J. Blackmore

National and Regional announcements

An incident through music, written by Spike Hughes , with Jack Melford , C. Denier Warren , and Joan Young
BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Douglas Moodie

Alfred Campbell discusses today's news and problems in Northern Ireland, with a comment in rhyme by Tommy Thompson

7-' The leopard's spots ' : can people change their natures if they want to ?

Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Oda Slobodskaya (soprano)

in ' Listen to my Notebook ', a weekly series of original programmes, specially written and presented by J. B. Priestley. Produced by Mary Allen

Master of ceremonies, Clay Keyes. Richard Goolden as Old Ebenezer, with Gladys Keyes as Martha. ' The musical newsreel '. This week's famous visitor, Ronald Frankau. ' Can you beat the band ? ' The Town Hall Orchestra, under the direction of Billy Tement. Weekly meetings organised by Gladys and Clay Keyes , and presented by Eric Spear

Address by the Rev. C. H. Russell

New play by Gordon Daviot. Produced by W. Farquharson Small
This play is centred round a single dramatic incident in the days of Queen Anne, when England and Scotland were two distinct states with separate parliaments. The incident concerns an English ship that sailed one day into the Firth of Forth.
Gordon Daviot is probably best known for her play, Richard of Bordeaux.

by Arthur Bliss (written in Summer 1940). Sung by William Parsons
Gone, gone again is summer Death beating the door in Feast
Little Elegy
Rain comes down Fair Annet's Song
Being young and green
(First broadcast performance)

and his Band