and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of George Elrick , the Aberdonian with the smiling voice

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

An anthology of favourites

Short morning prayers

A man in the kitchen

Records taken at random from the rack

' A young African in Britain ' : Nontando Jabavu presents a vivid contrast between life among her own people-the Bantu-and life in Britain.
' Letter From a New Zealand
Family' : read by Jack McGuire

Directed by Jack Hardy

at the theatre organ

News commentary and interlude

from p. 73 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 64 of ' Each Returning Day'

Brighouse and Rastrick Band. Conductor, Fred Berry

' Sleeping and snoring' : by the Chairman of the Emergency Committee of the Central Council for Health Education

Motet : Jesu, priceless treasure sung by the BBC Chorus : conductor, Leslie Woodgate

and his Orchestra, with Rosa Levain and Peter Valerio , from a restaurant in the South

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

Five-minute talk to the women behind the fighting line

Gwen Catley (soprano) ; Norman Allin (bass) ; with the BBC Salon Orchestra. Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater.

Quartet in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2, played by the Hirsch String Quartet: Leonard Hirsch (violin) ; Henry Ball (violin) ; Max Gilbert (viola) ; Kathleen Moorhouse (cello)

Dudley Beaven at the theatre organ

Conductor, Guy Warrack

Matthew Norgate

Conductor, Stanford Robinson

(Studio Service in Welsh). Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r Ilyfr ' Bob Bore o Newydd '

A story for the youngest listener Songs by Alexander Carmichael
Scottish and Norwegian music, played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, conductor, Ian Whyte. Presented by Percy Gordon

National and Regional announcements

' Draining the Farm' : talk by Dr. H. G. Sanders
One hears a lot about large-scale drainage schemes, but the farmer must still make his own contribution from field to field and ditch to ditch. H. G. Sanders is Executive Officer of the Hertfordshire War Agricultural Executive Committee. At the beginning of the war he looked after the drainageoperationsoftheCambridgeshire Committee.

Songs written about events, both great and small, both silly and serious, in all the years gone by. Collected and arranged by Ronald Gow and Leslie Baily , with Jack Werner and Alan Paul. Revue Chorus and the augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Hyam Greenbaum. Compère, John Watt. Produced by Ronald Waldman

10—'It's so different': Margery discovers the difference between one family and another

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell

Play by James Hanley and Malcolm Baker-Smith , produced by Malcolm Baker-Smith
The scene is in a railway-carriage. A mother of two small children, who is bored with life in the country, is bringing the reluctant pair back to their home in London. But she soon learns that there are worse things to be faced in war than the monotony of green fields and a lack of excitement-worse things for her children's welfare and her own sense of duty.

Admiral Sir Gerald Dickens ,

Master of Ceremonies, Clay Keyes. Richard Goolden as Old Ebenezer with Gladys Keyes as Martha. ' The musical newsreel'. This week's famous visitor. ' Can you beat the band ? ' Town Hall Orchestra, under the direction of Billy Tement. Weekly meetings organised by Gladys and Clay Keyes and presented by Eric Spear. (To be repeated in the Home and Forces programmes on Tuesday next at 4.0 p.m.)

Address by the Rev. E. C. Uriom

Conducted by Clarence Raybould and Alan Rawsthorne