and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Ninon Vallin (soprano)
Ninon Vallin was born at Montalieu-Vercieu, in the Isere, and spent her early youth in the Rhone valley. So it was natural that when she showed signs of musical talent she should go to the Lyons Conservatoire. After studying there for several years, she made her debut at the Opera-Comique, Paris, in 1915. Her Paris reputation was quickly made and was the prelude to international celebrity. Since her first sensational visit to the United States, she has made several world tours.

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

An anthology of favourites

A thought for today: R. W. Moore

Talk by a doctor

Records to meet the mood

Conductor, G. W. Hespe
Selection : Edward German Melodies

For the first time, children in Newcastle, New South Wales, take part in a two-way broadcast. They exchange greetings with their parents in Cardiff and Newcastle-on-Tyne. Programme arranged in collaboration with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Topical magazine programme

News commentary and interlude

from p. 25 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 46 of ' Each Returning Day'

Primo Scala 's Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS : Ann Driver. ' Cadences '
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
11.40 HOW THINGS BEGAN: Farmers make Machines'. Tom and Polly meet their friend Mr. Gray, who tells them about the farmers of the Ancient East, and discusses with them the evolution of such implements as the plough

Conducted by Captain J. Causley Windram, Director of Music, Coldstream Guards

Lunch-time concert for their fellow-workers by members of .the staff of an armament works, somewhere in the North. Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe

AU sorts of people tell how, why, and where we should grow more food

Plotside broadcasts from a BBC allotment cultivated by the Outside Broadcasting Department. Commentator, Michael Standing. Adviser, Roy Hay. From a London residential square

played by Arnold Goldsbrough (organ) ; Marjorie Hayward (violin) ; Irene Richards (violin) ; Antonia Butler (cello)

1.50 MUSIC MAKING: 'Words in Singing.' Herbert Wiseman and a group of children
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE : Using our senses. ' Using our Ears '. Richard Palmer
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH : A tall story, taken from the book of Louis de Rougemont's fantastic adventures

Frank Stewart and his Orchestra

Grand Zoological Fantasy, the Carnival of Animals, for two pianos and orchestra played by Lucy Pierce and John Brennan , and the BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Gideon Fagan

Short story written for broadcasting by Donald MacDonagh, and read by the author.

(Special announcements or a topical talk in Welsh)

5.20 'Said the Cat to the Dog', by Martin Armstrong. No. 6 - 'Fishing'
5.40 'Old London Street Games.' No. 2, by Bernard Wetherall
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 6
Augmented Dance Orchestra, conducted by Billy Ternent

Talk by the Rev. Hugh Martin

Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Mussorgsky's 'Pictures from an Exhibition' illustrate some of the pictures of Victor Hartmann, a Russian artist.
It is strange that these pieces were not originally conceived for orchestra by the composer, as the music and the ideas behind it cry out for orchestral treatment to do them full justice. Nevertheless it is not until one has compared the original piano solo with Ravel's orchestral version, made at the request of Koussevitzky in 1922, that one realises the great understanding and imagination that went to the making of the latter. In some of the numbers Ravel uses the full resources of the modern orchestra. In others a mere handful of instruments with which he secures the most masterly and striking effects.

Talk by W.H. Barber

by Philip King, with Lieut. C.E. Cameron Wilson, Bombardier Robert Samsom, Sapper Brian Oulton, Miss Joan Butterfield, Sergeant Stephen Murray, Private Jack Hancock, Private Renee Croome, A.T.S., and Lance-Corporal Terry Morgan. Programme presented by Barbara Burnham

Another supper-time cabaret, with music by Jimmie Leach's New Organolians, featuring Joyce Grenfell, Edward Cooper, Gillie Potter, and other well-known artists. Devised and presented by Jacques Brown

Talk by George Blake

played by the Kim Murray Strathspey and Reel Players, directed by Kim Murray
Wherever the dance music of Scotland is understood the word Strathspey conjures up the very essence of all that is implied by it. Kim Murray is one of the greatest living authorities on this type of music and is prominent throughout the South-East of Scotland as a teacher. It is under her direction and under her influence that this group of young players - also her pupils - have achieved their extraordinary verve and understanding. The whole programme will be given by singers who have learned their music in the neighbourhood of the Strathspey country.

Quartet No. 6 played by the Laurance Turner String Quartet

Readings of prose or poetry selected by a guest to the microphone. Presented by Edward Sackville-West