and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Ike Hatch, coloured minstrel

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

An anthology of favourites

A thought foe, today : Rev. A. Wal ford Deakin

Programme Parade

' A man in the kitchen '

of what's new. Review of March records by Leslie Perowne

Conductor, Richard Crean , with Geoffrey Dams (tenor) ORCHESTRA GEOFFREY DAMS AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRAGEOFFREY DAMS AND ORCHESTRA ORCHESTRA

at the theatre organ
Selection : Hands Across the Sea

News commentary and interlude

from p. 109 of 'New Every Morning' and p. 28 of ' Each Returning Day'

Tom Jenkins at the theatre organ

11.0 THE MUSICAL TRAVELLER : The Traveller loses his way. Mr. Huckaback comes across a piece of music which puzzles him
11.20 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH : by Jean-Jacques Oberlin , Andree Duran ton and Marie Touchard. ' Chez Ie photographe '. Chanson : ' Aupres de ma blonde '
11.40 SENIOR GEOGRAPHY : Making the Americas. The United States : ' Developing an oil-field in Texas ', by C. J. Ward

Conductor, Leslie Woodgate. Stanley Riley (baritone)

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

Talk by Caroline Haslett , C.B.E.

2.0 NATURE STUDY : Counting Birds ', by James Fisher
2.15 Interval music
2.20 PHYSICAL TRAINING (for use in classrooms) : by Edith Dowling
2.35 Interval music
2.40 SENIOR HISTORY : 1800-1875. ' The Coming of Steamboats ' : Sir Walter Scott travels from Leith to London by sea and recollects earlier journeys by coach : by Janet M. Smith

Geraldo and- his Orchestra

Conducted by Leslie Heward

by Marguerite Steen

Novelty numbers and solo pieces played by the BBC Variety Orchestra, conductor, Charles Shadwell , with Mervyn Saunders

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

Scottish Children's Players in folk tunes and dances presented by Kath leen. Talk to stamp collectors, by A. Keith Macdonald

National and Regional announcements

Variety from a Northern theatre

Alfred' Campbell discusses some of the regulations governing wartime life in Northern Ireland, and Tommy Thompson adds his rhyming comment on' Ulster news of the fortnight

Where do we play ? Out of doors, in summer ? Ivan Smith from Australia, where they really make the most of holidays, describes the sort of holidays we might plan for after the war, and W. H. Hamlyn discusses planning holidays with pay

played by Clifford Curzon

Joyce Barbour in a new revue by Aubrey Danvers - Walker, with Charles Heslop , Jack Melford , Michael Lynd , Paula -Green, and Kitty de Legh. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas. Music by Clarence Ashton , Edward Cooper , and Victor Snowdon. Produced by Reginald Smith

by Group Captain W. Helmore

Conductor, Ian Whyte. Ireen Maclaren (piano) IREEN MACLAREN AND ORCHESTRA
ORCHESTRA

Address by the Rev. E. M. Drew

Play by Gordon Sherry. Produced by Howard Rose
An office at Scotland Yard

and his Orchestra, with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber , George Evans , Three Boys and a Girl, and the Singing Troubadour