and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Records of Larry Adler , wizard of the harmonica
Exercises for men : George Welton
7.40 Exercises for women : Doris Robertson
An anthology of favourites
Short morning prayers
A man in the kitchen
Records taken at random from the rack
with Harry Porter (tenor)
Conductor, Wilfred Dawson
Selection: Mirella Gounod Intermezzo Coleridge-Taylor Comet Duet : Sandy and Jock Sutton
(Duettists, G. Jacobs and J. Rummey )
American Selection : A Darkey's Dream-land Bidgood
from p. 17 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 12 of ' Each Returning Day'
Scottish Variety Orchestra : conductor, Ronnie Munro
Suite of Spanish Dances
Dance music, presented with gramophone records by G. H. Phelps
Today's contributor is Sinbad, whose stories of adventure are already known to many listeners
played by Malcolm Boyle .
From Chester Cathedral
Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain
Talk by Edna Nixon
and Ms Band
Mary Allen (contralto), Francis Russell (tenor)
Jack Jackson and his Band
Conductor, Ernest W. Goss. Dorothea Aspinall (piano)
Dilys Powell
Conducted by Harold Lowe
(Studio Service in Welsh). Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r llyfr Bob Bore o Newydd '
' Welcome Cottage '-2. Another visit to the pleasant cottage of Captain Merriman, to hear what is happening at the evacuees' club. The children are there as usual, and Captain Merriman has probably persuaded some of his friends to come along to help with the entertaining
National and Regional announcements
Fred Astaire—' Top hat, white tie, and tails '
from the Hippodrome, Birmingham
' Feeding for Milk ' : talk by Dr. A. B. Fowler , Deputy Director of the Hannah Dairy Research Institute
Pat's news sets the Armstrongs discussing the subject of young mothers and the war effort
(born April 8, 1692)
Sonata in G minor (The Devil's Trill), played by Ida Haendel (violin)
Yesterday, the 250th anniversary of Tartini's birth, was marked by the performance of one of his violin concertos by Max Rostal and the BBC Northern Orchestra. This evening Ida Haendel plays the most famous of his violin sonatas, said to have been composed after a dream in which the Devil, having entered into a compact to serve the composer, played him a marvellous solo on the violin.
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Play by Barbara Couper and Evadne Price. Produced by Howard Rose
Barbara Couper and Evadne Price are the authors of Tilly Loo, a radio play that, it's generally agreed, was one of the most successful of recent months. Now comes this play about a music-hall ventriloquist and his fortunes through two wars.
Roy Plomley's castaway is soprano Dame Eva Turner. Show more
by Captain Cyril Falls
A few songs whose day is done, and a few whose day is just begun, sung by Violet Carson , Mervyn Saunders ,
Bettie Bucknelle , and the BBC Revue Chorus, and played by the augmented Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent. Programme presented and introduced by Jimmy Dyrenforth
Address by the Rev. Douglas Stewart
Anthology selected by Ursula Wood , and presented by Stephen Potter
Conducted by' Clarence Raybould
and his Band