.and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Ella Fitzgerald , coloured singer

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

An interlude

Short morning prayers

A Canadian housewife tells you how to make a florin feed four

Popular songs and dance music on gramophone records

at the theatre organ

Conductor, Richard Crean

Introductory music Prayer
Fill thou my life, 0 Lord my God
(A. and M. 705, omitting w. 5 and 6 ; S.P. 492) (Tune : Richmond)
Interlude
Prayers : The Prayer of St. Richard, and Lord's Prayer
At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow (A. and M. 306, vv. 1, 5, 6; S.P. 392, vv. 1, 4, 5 ; C.H. 178, vv. 1, 3, 4) (Tune : Evelyns)
Blessing
Closing music

(piano), on gramophone records
Scherzo : A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Mendelssohn-Rachmaninoff); Prelude in B, Op. 32, No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)

News commentary and interlude

from p. 93 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 32 of ' Each Returning Day'

Easy, breezy tunes on gramophone records

Topical notes on wartime health, mainly by doctors

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR INFANT 3 : Kathleen Ortmans
11.20 Interval music
11.25 SPEECH TRAINING FOR SCOTTISH SCHOOLS : Anne H. McAllister -, D.Sc.
11.45 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS : ' Equipping ourselves to understand '. 5-' Virtue in science ', by C. H. Waddington

Reginald King with his Quartet

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George Lockhart describes his travels with his famous troupe of performing elephants
George W. Lockhart, equestrian director at Blackpool and Belle Vue, Manchester, has had about as much experience of the ' sawdust ring ' as any man living. Fifty-two years ago he made his first appearance in Scandinavia, touring with his father's circus. In this he appeared as the Prince in ' Cinderella '. Thereafter, he toured all over the world with his father, who first gave to the public the great tradition of the famous Lockhart elephants. The elephants were sold after the death of George Lockhart's father, and he came, as he says ' through a chapter of accidents to Blackpool and Belle Vue.

ENSA concert for war-workers, with Mantovani and his Orchestra, Tova Siron , and Harry Champion

BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard ), conducted by Clarence Raybould
(Solo piano, Ernest Lush)
From a concert-hall in the South

2.0 TRAVEL TALKS : Modern Africa
' My sheep farm on the Veld ' : a Dutch South African's boyhood, and the changes he found when he returned there a few years ago
2.15 Interval music
2.20 IF YOU WERE AMERICAN : ' Wings over the States ': Nora Wain tells how her, daughter, Marie, went on a journey across the U.S.A.
2.40 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT FOR SCHOOLS : BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Ronald Biggs
Programme presented by Ronald Biggs

Alan Paul and Ivor Dennis : melodies for all moods on two pianos

Conductor : Leslie Bridgewater

Conductor, John C. Potter

4—' More about dressmaking '
Evelyn Scarlet

with Effie Atherton , and Ronnie Hill , assisted by Jack Wilson and his Versatile Five. Produced by Martyn C. Webster

Rhaglen ysgafn gan rai o fyfyrwyr Coleg y Brifysgol, Bangor. (Light Welsh programme)

Story for younger listeners, ' The miser and the mice' by Catherine Buckle , told by Nan, and piano solos by Charles

National and Regional announcementf

A. E. Housman , by Laurence Housman
Music-lovers who hear this talk may be interested to hear the broadcast by the BBC Northern Orchestra at 9.35 p.m. of George Butterworth 's rhapsody for orchestra' A Shropshire Lad ', which was inspired by Housman's poetry. A setting of ' Loveliest of Trees ', by Somervell, is also in the programme by the BBC Salon Orchestra at 3.30 p.m.

Arnold Richardson (organ)

Broadcasts on the nature and authority of thought. 8—' Crime and punishment ' : discussion between J. C. Macfarlane , Guy Clutton-Brock , V. S. Pritchett , and John Mabbott

First-hand accounts by women who have lived in the occupied countries of Europe, of daily life under Nazi rule. Produced by Olive Shapley
[Home Service continued on p. 22

in ' It's That Man Again', with Jack Train , Horace Percival , Sydney Keith , Clarence Wright , Fred Yule , Dorothy Summers , Kay Cavendish , Paula Green , Dino Galvani. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Ted Kavanagh. Produced by Francis Worsley

Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
» Olive Zorian and Ealasaid Robay
(violins)
Butterworth's rhapsody ' A Shropshire Lad ' is based on material of the composer's own. He broods over snatches of melody from his two sets of ' Shropshire Lad ' songs to which the rhapsody is a sort of orchestral epilogue. The predominant mood is that of Housman's poem :
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.

War time fairy story with lots of morals, written by Henrik Ege ; music by Henry Reed. Produced by Gordon Crier. Episode 3—' Rock-a-bye-baby ? '. Frederick Burtwell as Mr. Cropper, Wynne Ajello as Conscience, Kitty de Legh as Mrs. Cropper. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum

Music for harpsichord played by Richard Newton
Prelude in B minor L'Ausoniene Passacaille

and postscript

and his Band

Reginald Kell with his Sextet