and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Dennis Noble (baritone)
Exercises for men : George Welton
7.40 Exercises for women : Doris Robertson
An anthology of favourites
Reading from the Gospels, by Robert Speaight
Children's food problems : the leaving-school age
Records to meet the mood
Conductor, G. W. Hespe
Topical magazine programme
A devotional reading. Meditation on the words ' Behold, thy King cometh '
for Wednesday in Holy Week
Jack White 's Band, under the direction of Jack Lennox
Dance music and songs for the housewife, on gramophone records
John Wilbye 's First Set of Madrigals (1598)-3. BBC Singers : Margaret Godley , Joyce Sutton , Margaret Rees , Margaret Rolfe , Bradbridge White , Stanley Riley , Emlyn Bebb ,
Samuel Dyson. Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Lady, your words do spite me Weep, 0 mine eyes I always beg
Thus love commands
Dear pity, how, ah, how ?
Cruel, behold my heavy ending
(All edited by E. H. Fellowes )
The life and music of a little-known composer, illustrated with gramophone records of his work. Presented by G. H. Phelps
Conducted by Mr. A. A. Singer
Lunch-time entertainment presented to their fellow workers by members of the staff of an armament works, somewhere in the North. Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe
All sorts of people tell us how, why, and where they have grown more food
Plotside broadcasts from a BBC communal allotment developed by the Outside Broadcasting Department. 4—' Preparing the seed bed and planting miscellaneous crops'. Commentator, Michael Standing. Adviser, Roy Hay. From a London residential square
(organ)
From the Town Hall, Birmingham
Conducted by Reginald Burston , with Frederick Harvey (baritone)
April fooling by Lyn Joshua and Philip Phillips , aided and abetted by Frank Davey and Donald Wells , with Mai Jones at the piano
Troise and his Banjoliers
Conductor, Guy Warrack
in ' Big Time'.
(Special announcements or topical talk in Welsh)
5.20 ' Said the Cat to the Dog ', by Martin Armstrong. No. 5 —' April Fool's Day'
5.40 A talk about bees, by Reginald Gamble
5.55 Children's Hour prayers
National and Regional announcements
A national magazine, introduced by Frank Gillard
Romance of the circus and the music-halls in six episodes. Devised by Georgie Wood. Written by Raymond Bennett and Georgie Wood. Radio adaptation by Gordon Crier.
Music by Kenneth Leslie - Smith. - Produced by Vernon Harris. Recorded revival of the recent Saturday-night serial
Principal characters in Episode 2
Augmented Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Tement
1 — ' What the soldier is thinking now' : told by Lance-Corporal C. K. Young
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Howard Jones (piano)
ORCHESTRA
5-The Market Players, with Godfrey Kenton , Vivienne Bennett , Raymond Scott , Monica Stutfield , Billy Shine , Julia Lang , Margaret Pepler , Helen Lowry. Special introduction by Ivor Brown. Programme presented by. Barbara Burnham
Roy Fox vocalists. 2-Nat Gonella. Gramophone programme compiled by Wemyess Craigie
for Wednesday in Holy Week
Theme : ' Behold thy son ' Prayers
Hark, my soul ! it is the Lord (A. and M. 260; C.H. 417)
Reading : II Corinthians 5, vv.
14-20
Address by the Most Rev. William Temple, D.D., Archbishop of York
Not for our sins alone (A. and M.
528)
Blessing
sung by Jenny M. B. Currie (soprano) and Neil McLean (tenor), with John Linn (viola)
by Hubert J. Foss
Songs, Sacred and Profane
The Advent (Alice Meynell)
Hymn for a Child (Sylvia Townsend
Warner)
My Fair (Alice Meynell)
The Salley Gardens (W. B. Yeats )
The Soldier's Return ; The Scapegoat
(Sylvia Townsend Warner) sung by Cecil Cope (baritone)
and bis Orchestra, with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber , George Evans , Derek Roy , and Three Boys and a Girl
