and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Mary Healy, American film star

Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women: May Brown

An anthology of favourites

A thought for today: Rev. B. C. Plowright

Programme Parade

Radio Food Advice Centre

Mixed choice of records. The high spot will be the Nursery Suite by Elgar, played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the composer

'American Women at Home', by Christine Sturgeon ; and ' Canadian Winter', by Alexander McOwan , read by George P. Davies

at the theatre organ
Musical mosaic of Beethoven

News commentary and interlude

from p. 25 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 46 of ' Each Returning Day:

Jack Leon and his Orchestra
Jack Leon has done such varied things in the music world as conducting the Guild-hall Orchestra for folk dancing, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra for ballet, and conducting two bands daily at the Prince of Wales Theatre for seven years.

played by Ealasaid Robey (violin), and Beryl Dallen (piano)

at the theatre organ

Conductor, Richard Crean

ENSA concert for war-workers, with Sandy Powell , Carl Carlisle , and Carroll Gibbons and his Band

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

and his Orchestra, with Monti Ryan , Cyril Shane , and Geoff Watts

BBC Men's Chorus, conductor, Leslie Woodgate. Stanley Riley (baritone). At the piano, John Wills
Gaudeamus igitur (arr. L. Woodgate ) ;
The Doctor ; Ben Backstay ; Passing by ; The Pipe ; A Song of Water ; Over the Sea to Skye ; The Spanish Guitar ; Canibalee j Bread and Butter

played by the BBC Military Band. Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

These programmes bring before you, month by month, the changing facets of the rural scene. Country men and women are brought to the microphone to speak about their lives and work.

Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult

and his Commanders, with Rita Williams and Bebe Taylor

a cherddi eraill. Darlleniad o gerddi Gwilym R. Jones. Rhaglen o dan ofal T. Rowland Hughes. (Welsh reading)

5.20 ' Johnnie the Hedgehog ' : story for younger ones by Aileen Henderson. Piano solos by David
5.45 ' Puppets for Sale' : story by W. Glynne Jones

National and Regional announcements

Drama of the sea in six episodes, by Dale Collins. Produced by Hugh Stewart. Episode 2—' The Calm'
Scene : the schooner ' Spray' in mid-Pacific

Excerpt from the pantomime presented by Sir Oswald Stoll , and produced by Lupino Lane and Meriel Gaunt , Olive Goff , Ernie Gerard and Hank the Mule. Jack Frere and his Orchestra
From a theatre in the South

Play by Ronald Gow , with lyrics by James Dyrenforth , and music by Michael North. Produced by Ronald Waldman and Carleton Hobbs , Horace Percival , Dick Francis and Clifford Bean. Revue Chorus and BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum. vNote : As the characters in this story-speak in various languages, it must be left to the listener to detect which language is being spoken at any given time.
This musical comedy may seem something of a departure for Ronald Gow , author of that redoubtable play, Gallows Glorious. Nevertheless, The Prince on the Flying Trapeze is just as rich irr the genial and the jocose as was Gallows Glorious in the spirit of fighting-America and John Brown.
The Prince on the Flying Trapeze loses nothing by its use of a setting long beloved, but never made stale, by the writers of musical comedy. In fact, here is Ruritania again (in this case, Schnitzel) complete with fabulous princes, succulent waltzes, courtiers, commoners, and all the jovial stock-in-trade of a happier Central Europe. There is, however, a difference, and a very marked one-the heroine is a Lancashire trapeze artist, who causes no ordinary flutter in the swaggering, soignee set-up of the Schnitzel court.

and his Music

[Home Service continued opposite

Historical detective story for broadcasting, by John Dickson Carr.
This play is not a romance. No character is fictitious, every scene - except those dealing with the solution of the mystery, which must always be conjectural - is historically true, and has been reconstructed from the spoken or written words of the persons concerned.

Conducted by Mr. Arthur Hibbert

BBC Chorus. BBC Orchestra, conducted by Leslie Woodgate ORCHESTRA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA

and his Band