and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Solomon (piano)

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

An anthology of favourites

A thought for today : Rev. A. Walford Deakin

Programme Parade

Problems and ideas from all parts of the country as seen by the Food Reporter

Record programme of tunes and songs from the stage, written and arranged by Roy Plomley

at the theatre organ

Conductor, Richard Crean , with Muriel Sotham (contralto)

from p. 98 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 32 of ' Each Returning Day'

Percival Mackey and his Band

Directed by Jack Hardy

played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra, conductor, Guy Warrack

Revue Chorus and BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas

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

' Chick Rearing ', by Alan Thomp son and Leonard Tumill
Leonard Turnill is Assistant Poultry Instructor for Kent, and this discussion will make particular reference to the simplicity of rearing a few chicks- in hot-water-bottle brooders.

played by the Scottish Variety Orchestra, conducted by Ronnie Munro

Fantastical opera-ballet, in a new scenic version by George Kirsta , presented by Albion Operas Ltd. English words by Edward Agate ; additional text by Olive Moore. London Opera Orchestra (leader, Maurice Linden ) : conductor, Walter Susskind. From a theatre in the South
Introduction : Offenbach presenting his characters
Prologue : Luther's Tavern
Act I : Olympia ; Spalanzani's
Drawing-Room
Here is the ever popular opera Tales of Hoffmann in a new scenic version by George Kirsta. The story, of course, is the same as the original one, but here Offenbach himself appears on the stage, and among various new features a ballet has been introduced into the production in such a way that certain parts of the action are emphasised by the dancing. Furthermore, at the end of the opera there is a new scene, based on an excerpt from La Belle Hélène, which is not, however, being broadcast at present.

Second of two gramophone programmes devised by Harold Neden

played by William Pleeth

3-March, with Mae Bamber and Gerald Howe Chantler. Produced by Richard North

Second of a series of gramophone programmes presented by Basil Maine

in aid of the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund, devised by Neil Munro , and arranged and presented by Ronald Waldman. Specially recorded programme. Entire entry fees devoted to the Red Cross Penny-a-Week Fund. (To be repeated in the Forces programme on Monday, March 9, at 7.0 p.m.)
Last day for posting your entries is Thursday, March 12, and the address it £ 250 Red Cross Radio Contest, London, W.C.2.

Sgwrs gan y Parch. G. E. Breeze. (Talk in Welsh)

5.20 'The Three Wayfarers West-Country tale by Melville Balfour. Songs by Eileen Vaughan
5.50 'More about my imaginary island', by R. J. E. Silvey

National and Regional announcements

Favourite pieces, including Herold's Overture : Zampa ; the Nocturne and March of the Dwarfs from Grieg's Lyric Suite ;. the Popular Song from Walton's Façade; and Dance of the Sylphs and Hungarian March 'from Berlioz's Damnation of Faust. They are played by the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Basil Cameron

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

Gordon Macdonald , M.P.

5-The Royal 22nd Regiment of Canada. Script by an officer of the Canadian Military Headquarters Overseas. Produced by H. Rooney Pelletier.

featuring Jack Warner , Billy Russell , Jeanne de Casalis , and Phyllis Robins , supported by well-known Variety acts. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Script by Max Kester. Produced by Harry S. Pepper

Elmer Davis

in ' Imperial Ballet', a programme arranged and presented by Stanford Robinson , who conducts the BBC Theatre Orchestra
Listeners with long memories may remember two programmes of ballet music played by the BBC Theatre Orchestra in 1934 .'and 1938, which were introduced by one of the most delightful and famous of all Russian dancers, Lydia Lopo kova. Tonight she introduces the first of a new series in which she herself will appear, to tell of the dances she has danced and the dancers with whom she has worked during her career. Tonight's programme includes music from Casse Noisette, Swan Lake, The Firebird, Prince Igor, and La Boutique Fantasque.

A form of Compline

Play by Dale Collins. Produced by Fred O'Donovan
Crowd : Robert Marsden , John Bryning , Cyril Gardiner , Stanley Lathbury , Neville Gates

Violin solos played by Edward Silverman

and his Band, with Harry Davis , featuring Beryl Davis , Diane, Cyril Shane , Four Jacks and a Jill, Jan Zalski , Eddie Palmer at the Novachord