and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Kate Smith , song-bird of the South

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.

' Gert and Daisy' discuss the day after Christmas

Twenty-five minutes of rhythm with Kay Cavendish

at the theatre organ

Recording of last Saturday's broadcast

Conductor, Rae Jenkins , with Walter Widdop (tenor)

Records of vocal jazz

from p. 69 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 30 of ' Each Returning Day '

Eric Winstone and his Band

Records of vocal duettists in harmony

with Walter Glynne , Alyce Davies , Bernard Goldstein and Mai Jones. Compered in rhyme by Lyn Joshua

Programme of gramophone records

Syd Carter
. Syd Carter is from the Vale of Evesham.
He will tell how he and his neighbours spent their day in the ' Heart of England

Seasonal lunch-time concert by munition-workers at a factory somewhere in the North

Conductor, Johan Hock Eveline Stevenson (soprano)

Conducted by Mr. F. L. Statham

Piano trio in D minor played by the Albion Trio : Louis Willoughby (violin) ; Vivian Joseph (cello) ; Margaret Chamberlain (piano)

Radio play by Peter Cheyney. Produced by Fred O'Donovan

Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

Sgwrs gan E. Morgan Humphreys (Talk in Welsh)

or ' The boy who wouldn't grow up ', by J. M. Barrie , with music by John Crook. Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Gordon Crier (by arrangement with the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London)
Lost boys :
Pirates:
Red Indians:
BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum

National and Regional announcements

'Fantasies about Man's future discussed by Olaf Stapledon (author of 'Last and First Men'), C. H. Waddington (author of ' The Scientific Attitude'), and John Gloag (author of ' Tomorrow's Yesterday')

In place of their usual Christmas
Party, the Minstrels do their best to ' have a ' 'do'. Invitations have been issued by Harry S. Pepper to Scott and Whaley, Ike Hatch , C. Denier Warren, Fred Yule , the Kentucky Banjo Team (Dick Pepper , Edward Fairs, Bernard Sheaff ) Leslie Wood gate, Doris Arnold , and Reginald Foort. BBC Revue Orchestra and Male Voice Chorus (Special BBC Recording)

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

Play by J. B. Priestley. Music composed and played by Richard Addinsell. Produced by Mary Allen.

BBC Theatre Orchestra. BBC Theatre Chorus. Conductor, Stanford Robinson. Singers : Gwen Catley and Dennis Noble. Programme compiled and narration written by Denis Arundell
The programme will include Winter's song from The Faery Queen, a French carol, chorus from Julius Casar by Handel, an old English drinking song, a French berceuse of the time of Napoleon, a movement from the Carol Symphony by Hely Hutchinson , and the finale from King David by Honneger. It is all music that has been written with Christmas as its scene. m

Sonata for violin and piano played by Max Rostal (violin) j Franz Osborn (piano)

and postscript

at the theatre organ

and his Grosvenor House Dance Band