and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Lily Pons , American operatic singer

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.4a Exercises for women : May Brown

An anthology of favourites

Short morning prayers

Programme Parade

'The Radio Doctor'

Records of the American scene, from the Rockies to the Rainbow Room. Compiled by Charles Chilton

(Chatham Division)
(By permission of the General Officer Commanding).
Conducted by Lieutenant Thomas Francis, Director of Music, Royal Marines

Selection: The Beggar's Opera

played by a section of the Casino Orchestra, directed by Rae Jenkins

Topical magazine programme

News commentary and interlude

from p. 53 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 58 of ' Each Returning Day'

Eric Winstone and his Band

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS: Ann Driver. ' Long Notes '
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
11.40 HOW THINGS BEGAN :'Men make Boats '. Tom and Polly visit their friend, Mr. Gray,. who tells them about water transport in the days of the Sumerians and the Ancient Egyptians.

Conducted by Clarence Raybpuld

Lunch-time concert for war-workers presented by railway men and dockers at a Northern port. Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe.

Sung by the West Country Singers, conducted by Reginald Redman , and played by Hubert W. Hunt
SINGERS
From Bristol Cathedral
1

1.50 MUSIC MAKING 'Remembering and Writing' : Cyril Winn and a group of children
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE : Using .our senses. ' Using our Fingers ' : Richard Palmer
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH : Miscellaneous poetry programme

Charlie Kunz and his Rhythm

Conductor, Ian Whyte

Yr ail sgwrs gan Cathy Griffith Jones. (Talk in Welsh)

A fairy tale and nursery rhymes for the youngest listeners, and Scottish regimental tunes introduced by Tom Dawson and played by the BBC Military Band, conducted by W. J. Matthews. Songs by Andrew Hill
5.55 Children's Hour prayers

National and Regional announcements

A national magazine, introduced by Frank Gillard

1—Random recollections of famous first nights in Glasgow, selected and introduced by S. R. Littlewood. Produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall
S. R. Littlewood has already helped to arrange several programmes on famous Manchester first nights. This well-known man-about-theatre now turns his attention to Glasgow, where No, No, Nanette and Evergreen first charmed an audience, -which beat London by less than an hour in the first production of Galsworthy's Justice, where Bridie's Sunlight Sonata was the herald of a new genius.

4—'China and the Far East'. Talk by the Rt. Rev. R. 0. Hall, Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong

Romantic ballad opera by R. Vaughan Williams. Libretto by Harold Child. Produced by Stanford Robinson and Mark H. Lubbock
Chorus of inhabitants of the town and soldiers
BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre Orchestra : conductor, Stanford Robinson. Narrator, Dennis Arundell
Place : A small town in the Cotswolds about 1812. Act 1 : A fair in an open field near the town about 11.0 a.m. on Monday, April 30

Act 2 : A street in the town 4 a.m. on Tuesday, May 1,

Play by James Parish . Produced by Howard Rose
Telephone operators, etc

Cuirm-chiuil de na seann orain a bha gu trie ri'n cluinntinn. (Gaelic concert)

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

with his Orchestra