and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Elisabeth Welch , the coloured nightingale

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith

An anthology of favourites

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

A man in the kitchen

Records taken at random from the rack

Conductor, Richard Crean , with Irene Hinsley (soprano)
Richard Crean is one of the most popular and successful orchestra leaders in the country. In 1936 he formed his own orchestra for broadcasting, and with a strong personnel that included
Henry Bronkhurst (piano), Cedric Sharpe (cello)
Arthur Gleghorn (flute), Alec Whmaker (oboe), and Norbert Wethmar (violin), set out to delight listeners.
Crean had his first lessons from his father, James Crean , and went on to the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. He toured the world with the Quinlan Opera Company, and was engaged by Percy Pitt for the 1914 Grand Season at Covent Garden. He conducted the orchestra for one of C. B. Cochran 's most successful shows. Evergreen, and also the Palladium Orchestra for four Royal Command Performances, broadcasting regularly from the Palladium from 1934 to 1936.

at the theatre organ

News commentary and interlude

from p. 105 of' New Every Morning' and p. 24 of ' Each Returning Day '

Band of the South Lancashire Regiment (by permission of the Officer Commanding). Conducted by Mr. F. G. H. Irving

A study in annoyance, arranged with gramophone records by Ronald Hilbome

Conductor, Leslie Bridgewater

played by C. H. Trevor
Toccat

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

and his Band, with Marjorie Kingsley and Renee Lester

played by Marie Dare

Percival Mackey and his Orchestra

NORTHERN ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Julius Harrison. Frank Merrick (piano)
Frank Merrick has been heard in many broadcast recitals. In 1910 a programme of Merrick's own music gained a diploma of honour at the International Rubinstein Competition in St. Petersburg. During the Schubert Centenary celebrations he won a competition for completing the ' Unfinished ' Symphony.
ORCHESTRA

Talk by Edmund Segrave

Directed by Sidney Crooke

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

Jacobite music with male voices and the strings of the BBC Scottish Orchestra. Short play about Prince Charlie and Macdonald of Kings-burgh by Muriel Fyfe

National and Regional announcements

Conductor, Ian Whyte
In Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet Sali and Vreli are the Romeo and Juliet who have suffered in their love for each other from the bitter enmity of their parents. Determined to have one day of pleasure together, they go to a neighbouring fair, happy in each other's company.
There they are recognised and worried by importunate questions.
Anxious to be alone, they leave the fair and walk to the Paradise Garden, which is an inn, formerly the manor house of a ruined country estate. The love!v music describes their walk: it is idyllic, but imbued with a sense of impending tragedy.
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' Late Corn' by Dr. H. G. Sanders

First of four programmes which allow young workers to overhear what is said behind their back when employers, psychologists, parents, and youth organisers talk about them

An early-morning impression with music. Written by Ernest Dudley. Music by Alan Paul. Dance Orchestra conducted by Billy Ternent. Devised and produced by Henry Reed

The Black Market, and all that. Written and produced by Peter Watts

Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin , K.B.E.

Piano Quintet in A (Op. 81) played by the Melsa String Quartet

Address by the Rev. C. Paterson

with his Orchestra

Directed by Alfred Jupp