and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Paderewski t
Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women : Audrey Nicol
An interlude
A thought for today : the Bishop of Lichfield
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
Conductor, Fred Mortimer
Song selection : Old Timers
Topical magazine programme
News commentary and interlude
from p. 89 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 40 of ' Each Returning Day '
Jack Leon and his Orchestra
Jack Leon , whose orchestra broadcast for the first time on April 9 last year, was a child refugee from Belgium during the last war and is now a British subject. He has done such varied things in the world of music as conducting the Guild-hall Orchestra for folk dancing in Hyde Park, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra for ballet, and conducting two separate bands daily at the Prince of Wales Theatre for upwards of seven years.
11.0 MUSIC' AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS : Esmee Bushnell
11.40 HOW THINGS BEGAN: Brain, eye, and hand in tree life ', by Honor Wyatt
Conducted by Joseph Lewis
Fifty-first lunch-time entertainment, presented to their fellow-workers by members of the staff of a munition works somewhere in the North. Presented by Victor Smythe
played by G. D. Cunningham
1.50 music MAKING : by Cyril Winn , and a group of children
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE : 'Gaslight by J. A. Lauwerys
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH : Russian folk tale : ' King of the forest'
Fredric Bayco at the theatre organ
Experiment in social reform. Talk by Ivan Smith
Trio in G minor, Op. 15 played by the London Ensemble Trio : Daniel Melsa (violin) ; Lilly Phillips (cello) ; Hetty Bolton (piano)
Conducted by Reginald Burston . Henry Cummings (baritone)
ORCHESTRA HENRY CUMMINGS AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRAHENRY CUMMINGS AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA
Sgwrs Amserol (Special announcements or topical talk in Welsh)
5.20 'Pencil and paper'. More puzzles, questions, and catches by P. Caton Baddeley , and songs by the Three Semis
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. Bid-good, I.O.U., the auctioneer, BBC Revue Chorus and BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Dick Pepper. Produced by Ernest Longstaffe
Talk oh the religious and the political aspects of life, by Professor John Macmurray , M.C.
BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard), conductor, Sir Adrian Boult.
Moura Lympany (piano)
Moura Lympany and Orchestra
Aram Khachaturian, born at Tiflis in 1903, is one of the leading composers in Soviet Russia. His Piano Concerto, written in 1936, is based on Armenian folk songs. It was given its first performance in England last year at a concert of the Society for Cultural Relations between the Peoples of Great Britain and the U.S.S.R., with Moura Lympany as the soloist.
Orchestra
From a concert-hall in the South
Revival of the adaptation by Mabel Constanduros and Howard Agg from the novel by W. Somerset Maugham
The scene is laid in modern China.
Narration and production by Lance Sieveking
Talk by George Blake
played by William Hannah 's Band
An anthology of exasperations, selected by Stephen Potter
and his Band, with Harry Davis , featuring Beryl Davis , Diane, Bob Dale , Jan Zalski (Polish tenor), and Eddie Palmer with his novachord