and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of America's Crooner Number One

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith

An anthology of favourites

A thought for today: P. H. B. Lyon

' Country Notebook', by Janet Dunbar

Gramophone records

Talk by Maurice B. Reckitt

at the organ of the Gaumont Theatre, Manchester

News commentary and interlude

from p. 41 of New Every Morning ' and p. 20 of ' Each Returning Day'

No. 2—Harry Reser. Record programme written and arranged by A. P. Sharpe I

' Spring-Cleaning in Wartime '—2 : by Janet Dunbar. ' Country Cookery in the British Isles '—3 : by Dorothy Hartley

played by Lilian Niblette

and his Band

Symphony No. 2, in D played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra : conductor, Guy Warrack
Méhul began life as a cook and ended by being a composer of national fame. Opera and ballet were his chief concerns : he wrote over twenty operas, taking Gluck as- his model. At the age of forty-three M6hul came under the influence of Cherubini, with the result that he wrote a set
- of six symphonies. The No. 2 in D, which appeared in 1808, is a charming little work, characteristic of the period.

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

Recording of last Saturday's broadcast

John Wilbye 's First Set of Madrigals (1598)-4. BBC Singers : Margaret Godley , Joyce Sutton , Margaret Rees , Margaret Rolfe , Bradbridge White , Stanley Riley , Emlyn Bebb , Samuel Dyson. Conducted by Trevor Harvey
What needeth all this travail ? 0 fools, can you not see ? Die, hapless man
Why dost thou shoot ? Ye restless thoughts
Lady, when I behold (to four voices) Sweet love, if thou wilt gain Unkind, 0 stay thy flying
(All edited by E. H. Fellowes )

and the scene it might suggest pictured by Jane Grahame. (No. 13)

SALON ORCHESTRA
Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

and his Orchestra

Rhythmic records

Versicies and Responses Psalms 73 and 74 First Lesson: Daniel 9, vv. 7-10
The lamb's high banquet we await (E.H.
125, vv. 1, 2, 6, 7 and 8) Magnificat (Charles Hylton Stewart in C) Second Lesson : 1 Peter, 1, vv. 3-5
Nunc Dimittis (Charles Hyllon Stewart in C)
Creed and Collects
Anthem : 0 thou, the central orb (Charles
Wood)
Prayers —
Organist, Malcolm C. Boyle

Music in the modern style, played by a quintet from the Band of the R.A.O.C. Presented by Martyn C. Webster

Conducted by Julius Harrison

(Welsh Children's Hour). ' Beth Wnawn Ni 'Leni ? ' Dyna fydd cwestiwn llawer o blant ynglyn a'u gwyliau haf eleni. Heddiw, rhoddir y gyntaf o ddwy raglen yn cynnig rhai awgrymiadau sydd o fewn cyrraedd y mwyafrif o blant. Y rhaglen wedi ei chynllunio gan Olwen LI. Walters

' Fables in Verse ' by Rodney Ben nett, followed by a sports bee conducted by F. N. S. Creek with two teams of boys and girls

National and Regional announcements

Cello Sonata played by Norina Semino (cello) and Harry Isaacs (piano)

Weekly series of talks to help listeners to carry out smoothly the many regulations which are so important for the war effort on the home front

Musical play, based on the famous song-ballad. Radio play by Hugh Douglas Barr. Music by Jack Beaver. Produced by Douglas Moodie , with Cynthia Teall as Polly Oliver , and Ivan Brandt as Captain Peregrine Brown. Others taking part include Alma Vane , Jane Grahame , Olivia Burleigh , Olwen Brookes , John Rorke , Clarence Wright , Michael Lynd , Henry Cummings , Joan Young , Revue Chorus and BBC Revue Orchestra, under the direction of Micbael Thomas

' POLLY OLIVER ' who followed her grenadier sweet-heart to the wars as a drummer boy, has her story told once again in the musical show this evening at 7.0.

Chapters from the living volume of Scottish life. Seventh and last programme in the series written by Edwin Muir , produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall

answering Any Questions ? ' Commander Campbell, C.E.M. Joad, Dr. Malcolm Sargent. Question-Master, Donald McCullough. Producer Howard Thomas. (Specially recorded)

I (Part 2)
Isobel Baillie (soprano) ; Gladys Ripley (contralto); Parry, Jones (tenor); Norman Walker (bass); BBC Chorus. BBC Orchestra : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult. Organ, G. Thalben-Ball. Continuo,
Herbert Murrill
This is the second of three broadcasts which will include the whole of Handel's Messiah in commemoration of the bicentenary of its first performance in Dublin on April 13, 1742

Programme of quiet and gentle music, played by the BBC Theatre Orchestra : conductor, Stanford Robinson

and his Orchestra, with Dorothy Carless , Len Camber , George Evans , Derek Roy , and Three Boys and a Girl