and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Jan Kiepura (tenor)

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

An anthology of favourites

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

Freddy Grisewood

Record programme of tunes and songs of the stage. Written and arranged by Roy Plomley

at the theatre organ

Conductor, Richard Crean

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

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

Harold Gee and his Orchestra, with Margaret Crichton and Raymond Allen , from an hotel in the South

at the theatre organ

with Wilkie Bard and Nellie Stratton ; Val Green andAlec Howieson. Ruth Maine ; Colin Dunn ; Johnny Rosen and his Band. Produced by Richard North

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

' Backyard Review-194f'

Quartet in B flat, Op. 18, No. 6, played by the Catterall String Quartet : Arthur Catterall (violin) ; Audrey Catterall (violin) ; Lena Wood (viola) ; Johan Hock (cello)
It was not until the age of twenty-nine that Beethoven attempted to compose in the form of the string quartet. The Six Quartets that make up Op. 18 are slight in structure and design as compared with the noble quartets of his middle period and the great string quartets which were among the last things he wrote, these first six are full of melody, and all are so clear in form -.is to be easily followed and enjoyed.

Excerpt from Francis Laidler 's production (by arrangement with Sir Oswald Stoll ) and Dimitri Vetter , Kathleen Livingston, Jimmy Plant , Joe P. Kennedy , Shanks Brothers. Orchestra directed by Tom Lewis. From a theatre in the South

Introducing some of London's war-time buskers giving their own kerb-side entertainment. Produced by C. F. Meehan

Stuart Barrie at the theatre organ

Conductor, Guy War-rack . Guest conductor, Erik Chisholm

played by members of the BBC Salon Orchestra. Guests include Helen Clare and Phil Green. Post-master, George Willoughby. Produced by Charles Maxwell

Sgwrs gan Emyr Gwynne Jones.

' Yuletide matinee ' : special performance by the artists of the ' Saturday matinee ' shows for a group of evacuated children who are entertained at a Christmas party in the studio

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
Principal characters in Episode 4 :
The augmented Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Tement. Produced by Vernon Harris

Introducing personalities from every
. walk of life in interviews with Elizabeth Cowell and Roy Rich. Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan.

by Patrick Hamilton.
In this new short farce about a producer who couldn't get an actor to say a certain line, Patrick Hamilton himself, author of Rope, Gas Light, and To the Public Danger, will play the harassed producer. Gladys Young is also in the cast.

with Kean and Mather, Sylvia Welling, Issy Bonn, the Southern Sisters. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Compere, Philip Slessor

played by the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Clarence Raybould
Ravel first wrote the ' Mother Goose ' suite for piano duet and later used the music for a ballet founded on fairy tales, three of which are familiar to most of us. The music illustrates in a very vivid way the cunning with which Ravel uses his orchestral instruments to give just the impression which he has in mind ; it betrays, too, the merry sense of humour which is his.
There are five movements, all of them such deft illustrations of the little stories that no more guidance to the music is needed than the several titles.

Shortened form of Evensong

Fairy-tale for radio based on the poem by Alexander Ptishkin. Music composed by Alan Rawsthorne and played by the BBC Northern Orchestra, under the direction of the composer. Script and production by Francis Dillon
Like Rimsky-Korsakov 's famous opera Le Coq D'Or, this radio play with music is based on Pushkin's fantastic fairy tale satirising the pomp and stupidiry of autocracy An astrologer presents the aged King Dodon with a Golden Cockerel which will give warning of coming danger. The King promises the astrologer anything he wants. But when the former returns from the war bringing the lovely Queen of Chemakha as his bride, he is furious when the astrologer demands the Queen as his reward.
He kills the astrologer, but is struck senseless by the Golden Cockerel, and the whole kingdom disappears in a clap of thunder.

and his Orchestra, with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber , Jackie Hunter , and George Evans