and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Lily Pons , American operatic singer

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

An interlude

Short morning prayers

Children's food problems, by a doctor

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

Conducted by Lieutenant T. S. Chandler , Director of Music, Welsh Guards

Topical magazine programme

News commentary and interlude

from p. 109 of 'New Every Morning' and p. 28 of 'Each Returning Day'

Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS : Esmee Bushnell
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
11.40 HOW THINGS BEGAN: 'Life in the trees ', by Honor Wyatt

Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite

Fiftieth lunch-time concert presented to their fellow workers by members of the staff of a munition works somewhere in the North. Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe

and his Band

1.50 MUSIC MAKING : by John Horton , and a group of children
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE : ' Oil lamp and candle ', by J. A. Lauwerys
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH : Day : ' The Story of Gideon', taken from the Bible. Part 3—The Israelites take their enemies by surprise and defeat them

Jean Pougnet (violin)
BBC Orchestra (Leader, Paul Beard), conducted by Hyam Greenbaum
ORCHESTRA
JEAN POUGNET AND ORCHESTRA
From a concert hall in East Anglia

This afternoon's conductor.
After studying at the Brighton School of Music and the Royal College in London, Hyam Greenbaum was principal second violin in the Queen's Hall Orchestra from 1916 to 1925. For sometime, too,he was pianist and principal second violin for the Diaghilev ballet, recording manager of a gramophone company, for three years musical director to C.B. Cochran, and supervised the music for several films. He was also one of the original members of the Brosa String Quartet and before the war he was Television Music Director of the BBC.
'When preparing Gluck's Orpheus for production', Liszt says, 'I could not restrain my imagination from straying away from the simple version that the great master had made of the subject, but turned to that Orpheus whose name hovers majestically and full of harmony about the Greek myths. It recalled that Etruscan vase in the Louvre which represents the poet-musician crowned with the mystic kingly wreath; draped in a star-studded mantle, his slender fingers are plucking the lyre strings, while his lips are liberating

Busoni's Concerto
Busoni's Violin Concerto was written in 1896-7, when the composer was thirty years of age. Like the Comedy Overture, it represents Busoni's earlier style of writing, which paid respects to the style of the classical masters such as Mozart and Liszt's concertos, consisting of three move - all based on the same thematic material. Furthermore, in Busoni's Concerto the solo

Play by Peter Fraser.

played by Lucy Pierce

Prelude, Aria, and Finale...Franck
The Girl with Flaxen Hair...Debussy
The Wind...Alkan

Conductor, Richard Crean

* Ateb eich cwestiynau '. Sgwrs gan Walter 0. Hughes. (Talk in Welsh)

5,20 ' Stuff and nonsense' : Fun fare on the air concocted by Muriel Levy, with Doris Gambol !, Violet Carson , Wilfred Pickles , Muriel Levy, Nan, and Hugh Morton as guest artist
S.5S Followed by Children's Hour prayers

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

with Murray and Mooney as the touts (George Grabbit and Dan Droppit), Dick Francis as Mr. Bidgood, I.O.U., the auctioneer. Some bargains by Clarence Wright
BBC Revue Chorus and BBC Variety Orchestra.

First of four talks on the religious and the political aspects of life, by Professor John Macmurray , M.C.

by Verdi, with Italian Ubretto by Antonio Ghislanxoni. New Enghsh translation by H. Procter-Gregg . Produced by Stanford Robinson in collaboration with Mark H. Lubbock
Act 1 ; Act 2. Scene 1
Priests, priestesses, Egyptian people, slaves, and Ethiopian prisoners
BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre Orchestra, conductor, Stanford Robinson
Scene : Memphis and Thebes, in the time of the Pharaohs

Act 2, Scene 2 ; Act 3

Cuirm-chiuil de orain is ceol measgaichte Ie lain A. MacNeacaiI 'na fhear an tighe. (Gaelic concert) -

Act 4

and his Band