and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of America's Crooner Number One

Exercises for men : Frank Punchard
7.40 Exercises for women : Audrey Nicol

An anthology of favourites

A thought for today : Rev. Dom Bernard Clements , O.S.B.

Christmas shopping with the Buggins family (Mabel Constanduros )

Programme of gramophone records

at the theatre organ

Easy, breezy tunes on gramophone records

Recording of broadcast on December 21

from p..13 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 26 of ' Each Returning Day '

Record programme of famous trio and quartet singers

' The Christmas joint'. '. Talk by Ambrose Heath

at the theatre organ
Requests from the Services

Programme of gramophone records
Dauber's Salon Orchestra : Overture :
Betrothal at the Lantern (Offenbach)
Maggie Teyte (soprano): Petite dinde, ah ! quel outrage; Ma foi ? Pour venir de Provence (Veronique : Messager)
New State Symphony Orchestra :
Selection : Veronique (Messager)
Yvonne Printemps (soprano) : Depuis trois ans passes (Mariette : Oscar Straus ) ; Air de la lettre (Mozart : Reynaldo Hahn )
Marek Weber and Orchestra : Selection : Les Cloches de Corneville (Plan-queue)

Conductor, Guy Warrack

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

piano music played by Louis Kentner

Some chaff, a little sentiment, and some records. Written and presented by Herbert C. Ridout

Talk by George C. Nash

Conducted by Bandmaster C. Daddo (Soloist, Volunteer A. G. Wright)
Savoy Christmas Medley arr. Debroy Somers
From a hospital in the South

Jack Jackson and his Band

from a Midland cathedral
Versicles and Responses Psalm 115
First Lesson : Isaiah, 50, vv. 4-10 Magnificat (Day in B flat)
Second Lesson : Jude, w. 1, 2, and 17-25 Nunc dimittis (Day in B flat) Creed and Collects
Anthem : Behold ! I come quickly
(Ivor Atkins )
Prayers
0 praise ye the Lord (A. and M.
308).

Recording of last Thursday's broadcast

sung by Eiddwen Griffiths (contralto) and Megan Hopcyn (soprano)
EIDDWEN GRIFFITHS I

(Welsh Children's Hour). ' Hosan Nadolig ' : rhaglen ysgafn mor gymysg ei chynnwys a hosan Nadolig y plant

Christmas carols by the Nantyffyllon Children's Choir and the Blaenclydach School Orchestra

National and Regional announcements

Weekly series of talks to help listeners to carry out smoothly the many regulations which are so important for the war effort on the Home Front

with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber , Jackie Hunter , and any guest stars who may drop in. Compere, Gerry Wilmot. Produced by David Miller

ann an aon de bhailtean na Gaidhealtachd (Programme in Gaelic)

Story of a notorious forger of Shakespearean manuscripts, who began this career at the age of seventeen. Written by Arthur Miller. Produced by Stephen Potter. Originally produced by the Columbia Workshop

played by Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick

Musical romance of family life by Ronnie Hill and Peter Dion Titheradge, with Ursula Jeans and Maurice Denham. Produced by Vernon Harris
Other parts played by Doris Nichols , Phoebe Hodgson , John Rorke , Grant Tyler , Paula Green , and Dorothy Summers. Revue Chorus, Revue Orchestra, and Augmented BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell

Evening prayers

Reading of Wilfrid Gibson's poem by John Laurie

at the theatre organ

Quintet for piano and strings (first broadcast performance). Played by the Melsa String Quartet : Daniel Melsa (violin) ; Norman Chappie (violin); Leonard Rubens (viola) ; George Roth (cello) ; Margaret Good (piano)

and his 'Orchestra