and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Ernest Lough (treble) in some of his recordings

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women : Audrey Nicol

An interlude

Short morning prayers

(New series) ' Over the counter ' : the shopkeeper and his Customers

Records of tunes from the talkies, past, present, and future. News and gossip from, the film studios, arranged and presented by Charles Maxwell

at the theatre organ
Song hits of the moment
From cathedral chorister to cinema organist - this has been the story of Felton Rapley. First a chorister at Winchester Cathedral, then, at the age of thirteen, organist at Hursley Parish Church in Hampshire, Rapley entered the musical side of the cinema industry at the age of seventeen. He was musical director at a number of South-Coast cinemas, and soon became a theatre organist, in which capacity he has held posts all over the country.

Conductor, Richard Crean

from p. 53 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 58 of ' Each Returning Day'

Ransome and Marles Works Band. Conductor, David Aspinall

played by the BBC Orchestra. Conducted by Leighton Lucas

and his Band

played by Samuel Kutcher

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

' Pig Clubs—1941 ' : A review ot the year by Cedric Drewe , M.P., Chairman of the Small Pig-Keepers' Council
In September 1940, when the blitzes were in full blast, wartime pig clubs were in their infancy, but there were already 200 in the country. It seems incredible to think that today there are 2,100 clubs, producing 7,000 tons of pig meat a year. This will be the first time the Chairman has spoken to the clubs since the summer. He will deal with all the latest news and regulations.

Nina Lenova (soprano). Nina Milkina (piano)

with Courtney Hope (character studies from life) ; Tommy O'Hara and his piano accordion ; the Starf Sisters (a voice and two.pianos)

Leader, Edward Maude. Conductor, Heinz Unger. Phyllis Sellick (solo piano)
From a Northern concert hall
Beethoven himself called the Eighth Symphony a ' little ' symphony, and although it is imbued from first to last with gay spirits and its texture is almost as light as a Haydn or Mozart symphony, it was no great success when it was first performed. The reason for this. said Beethoven, is ' because it is so much better than the other ' (the No. 7).
Tchaikovsky once wrote an analysis of this symphony in which he said: ' It Is the last bright smile, the last response given by the poet of human sorrows and hopeless despair to the voice of gladness..... It is filled with a restrained joy. It depicts the gentle earthly delights of humanity before the soul is distracted by evil, doubt, and despair.'

Further extracts from the ' Diary of Elizabeth Ham'. Read by Eric Gillett

' Music in modern form ', with Gwen Catley (soprano), Eileen Joyce (piano), Dennis Noble (baritone), and ' Geraldo conducting his Symphony
Orchestra. At the organ, Fredric Bayco. From a concert-hall in the South —

with his Orchestra

Sef Beirdd y Gynghanedd. Ychydig eto o hanes Llys y Beirdd a ffurfiwyd o dan nawdd Cymdeithas Diogetu Synnwyr Cyffredin. Ymgom rhwng Davies, Aberpennar, a T. Rowland Hughes. (Discussion in Welsh)

5.20 ' Master Pwca of Trwyn Farm' : play by Beryl M. Jones
5.45 ' Quiz time' : the actors In the play are tried by Quizitor Lyn Joshua

National and Regional announcements

Romance of the circus and the music-halls in six episodes, devised by Georgie Wood. Written by Raymond Bennett and Georgie Wood.
Radio adaptation by Gordon Crier. Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith. Produced by Vernon Harris
Principal characters in Episode 1 : The Flying Fletchers :
Augmented Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent

' Once again we stop the London traffic in order to bring to you some of the interesting people who are In Town Tonight' ; introducing personalities from every walk of life in interviews with Elizabeth Cowell and Roy Rich. Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan.

Megan Lloyd George , M.P.

Some unfamiliar aspects of the Royal Air Force. No. 5-Air Auxiliary. Produced by Peter Watts 0

with Billy Kay , Hatton and Manners, Delya with the BBC Male Chorus and Reginald Foort at the organ, and George Doonan. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Compere, Philip Slessor

Elmer Davis

Conducted by Clarence Raybould

A form of Compline

Study in dramatic form, from the life of Oscar Wilde , by Laurence Housman. Adapted for broadcasting and produced by John Cheatle with Francis L. Sullivan as Oscar Wilde
The echo is from as far back as the year 1899. By the entrance of a cafe on a street opening into the Place de l'Opera, three Englishmen sit waiting ...

and his Band