and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Conchita Supervia, coloratura contralto
Conchita Supervia, born in Barcelona of an old Andalusian family, started her musical education at school by learning to play traditional Spanish music on the piano. At the age of five she was a member of her local church choir and two years later she was a prima donna for the first time in her life - in a nursery operetta based on a 'Red Riding Hood' fairy tale. When only fourteen she was chosen by Richard Strauss to sing in Roselikavalier at the Royal Opera in Rome, and from then onwards her career in the world of opera was assured. She first broadcast in this country in 1930 when she was vocalist at a BBC concert of Spanish music. From then, until her tragic death some years ago, she was a constant delight to all who heard her, whether in the concert hall or at the microphone.

Exercises for men : John Elder
7.40 Exercises for women : May Brown

An anthology of favourites

A thought for today : E. B. Castle

Gramophone records

Directed by Sidney Crooke

Military marches on records

Topical magazine programme

News commentary and interlude

from p. 77 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 34 of ' Each Returning Day'

Primo Scala 's Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR juniors : Ann Driver. ' Revision '
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
11.40 HOW THINGS BEGAN : ' Writing Tom and Polly pay another visit to the museum library, and Mr. Gray talks to them about writing

and his Orchestra

Lunch-time concert presented to their fellow-workers by members of the staff of a factory somewhere in the North. Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe

Plotside broadcasts from a BBC aUotment cultivated by the Outside Broadcasting Department. Commentator, Michael Standing. Adviser, Roy Hay

Sonata Eroica played by 0. H. Peasgood (organ)

1.50 MUSIC MAKING: 'Finding the Keynote.' John Horton and a group of children
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE : Notes and noises. ' Ways of Making Sounds ', by Joseph Lauwerys
2.35 Interval music
2.40. JUNIOR ENGLISH : ' Some Fables from an African Tribe '

Percival Mackey and his Orchestra

Conducted by Warwick Braithwaite

Talk by A. J. Tulip

Braslun o hanes y tenor enwog o Ohio, America. Defnyddir rhai o'i ganeuon sydd i'w cael ar recordiau. Cyflwynir y rhaglen gan Sam Jones. (History of a famous tenor in Welsh)

5.20 ' Said the Cat to the Dog' : by Martin Armstrong. No. 7—' Cat and Dog Show'
5.40 ' Trio Tunes', played by Laurance Turner , Haydn Rogerson , and Albert Hardie
5.55 Children's Hour prayers

National and Regional announcements

A national magazine introduced by Frank Gillard

as Bill Snibson (the famous character created for him in ' Twenty To One' and ' Me and My Girl' by L. Arthur Rose ) in a series' of comedy thrillers called ' Snibson's Choice', with Marjery Wyn as his girl Polly. Music specially written by Noel Gay and played by Mantovani and his Orchestra. Story
. written by Cyril Campion and Max Kester.

2-' Christian Community and the -World of Nations ' : talk by the Rev. A. C. Craig , D.D., Secretary of the Commission of the Churches on International Friendship and Social Responsibility

* Under the auspices of Allied
Governments. Organised by the Royal Philharmonic Society. First Concert : London Philharmonic Orchestra (leader, Reginald Morley ) : conductors, Basil Cameron and Sir Henry Wood
From the Royal Albert Hall, London

' Work and bed-you might as well be dead' : talk by Inez Holden

8-Donald Wolfit and Company (Advance Players Association Limited) introduced by Marguerite Steen. Programme presented by Barbara Burnham. (Recorded)

Series of recorded reminiscences of summer-time shows in pre-war days. Produced by Charles Maxwell

10.30 Talk by George Blake
10.45 Scottish Dance Music, played by the strings of the BBC Scottish Orchestra : conductor, Ian Whyte

Hirsch String Quartet. Roy Hender son (baritone)
George Butterworth was born in London in 1885 and was killed in action in 1916 at the age of thirty-one. One of his chief interests was folk dancing, and the influence of folk music showed itself in his music. Although he lived to compose only a few works, what he did leave, such as ' The Banks of Green Willow ' for orchestra, and the song cycles ' A Shrop.shire Lad ' and ' Love blows as the Wind blows ', showed the promise of a genius that might have blossomed out into one of the finest of modern British composers.

Reading of prose or poetry selected by Ivan Brandt. Presented by Edward Sackville-West

and his Band, from the Embassy Ballroom, Welling