and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Pills et Tabet, French cabaret artists

Exercises for men: George Welton

An anthology of favourites

Short morning prayers

' It's your idea '

Mixed choice of records including * Blackbirds Medley ', played by Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

Directed by Jack Hardy

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Talk by John Coatman
As an officer of experience in campaigns on the North-West Frontier, political adviser on Indian affairs, scholar, and writer, John Coatman , now the BBC's Northern Director, has a rich background on which to draw for today's contribution to ' Essays in Adventure '.

at theatre organ

News commentary and interlude

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

Harry Fryer and his Orchestra

11.0 Singing Together by Herbert Wiseman
Widdicombe Fair (English song)
Tom's gone to Hilo (sea shanty)
When Johnny comes marching home
(Traditional song)
11.20 I YSGOLION CYMRU (For Welsh schools). Diwylli2nt Cymru, gan Dr. Iorwerth C. Peate. 5-' Dodrefn '
11.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES 'The Lords of the Castles' : long narrative poem, based on Frances Browne 's story from ' Granny's Wonderful Chair'
12.0 THE FOUR GOSPELS 'The Kingship and Fatherhood of God ', by the Rev. Professor H. H. Farmer, Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge
Last term the series of talks on ' The Making and Content of the Bible ' dealt with the ways in which the Gospels came to be written. This term they are concerned with the message of the Gospels, and with the attempt to find out what was the original Christianity.

Conductor, Guy Warrack

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

sung by Betty Bannerman (contralto) Lydia ; Chanson du pecheur (Lamento) j
Mandoline ; Clair de lune ; Aurore Le secret; Nell
FauriS is one of the acknowledged masters of modem French song. Fastidious, classical in the best sense, he makes little or no attempt in his accompaniments to illustrate the picturesque elements in the words. His methods are more subtle he seeks to give his music a melodic line that faithfully follows and illustrates the inner sentiment of the words. The result is such a close alliance between words and music that the latter at least can be said to have no separate existence.
Fauri's songs are typically French. especially m their economy of means.

1.50 SCIENCE AND GARDENING : ' Vegetables through the centuries ' : B. A. Keen
2.10 Interval music
2.15 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY: ' The Little Poor Man ', by Rhoda Power : story of St. Francis of Assisi and his friars
2.35 Interval music
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I : English for everyday use. Bill and Mary are elected to a committee and find out how it works : by Julia Goodey and Douglas R. Allan

Harry Leader and his Band

Talk by E. C. F. Bird

Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult. Frederick Grinke (violin)
Vaughan Williams 's ' The Lark Ascending ' was composed in 1914 but was not heard in public until after the last war. It is based on a poem by George Meredith describing how the soaring lark ' drops the silver chain of sound of many links, without a break
It begins with a beautiful cadenza which represents the soaring bird and ends with the unaccompanied violin rising as the lark Rises to the heights.

and his Band

Stori radio gan Alwyn Thomas yn cael ei dweud gan Ednyfed Curig Davies. (Story in Welsh)

5.20 ' The Forsaken Merman ', by Matthew Arnold , arranged for solo and choral verse-speaking by Hedley Goodall and W. E. Davis
5.45 The Zoo Man

National and Regional announcements

Serial specially written for broadcasting by Lewis Middleton Harvey , and produced by Val Gielgud. 1—' Mr. Hartington's siesta'

Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (The Moonlight Sonata) played by Lance Dossor (piano)

' Agricultural Planning ' : Sir John Russell , D.Sc., F.R.S., Director, Rothamsted Experimental Station; Joseph F. Duncan , Secretary, Scottish Farm Servants' Union

(Sequel to ' Crooks' Tour'), by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat. Music by Kenneth Leslie-Smith . Produced by Vernon Harris. Part 1—' There goes the bridegroom !
Geraldo and his Orchestra

Geraldo and his Concert Orchestra, with Olive Groves, Dorothy Carless , the Singing Troubadour, Len Camber, and the Geraldo Chorus. Presented by Douglas Lawrance

Symphony No. 2, in D played by the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Basil Cameron

Radio version of the stage play by Gordon Llewellyn Collyer. Produced by Hugh Stewart
The action takes place in the St. Qlaf's Rest Room near the port of Warblesea, somewhere on the English coast

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

and his Orchestra