and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Records of Jean Sablon..

Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women: Doris Robertson

An anthology of favourites

A thought for today: Rev. G. W. Byrt

'The Dish of the Week '

Mixed choice of records. The high spot is the Parlophone Laughing Record

Conductor, Rae Jenkins

Talk by John R. Allan

It is always agreeable to hear again a popular radio voice which has been silent for some time because of its owner's war service. John R. Allan, a familiar broadcaster in Scottish programmes is now in the Army, and returns to the microphone this morning in a thoroughly 'escapist' talk which has nothing to do with the war. He will have for his subject the famous grey granite city of Aberdeen and the 'twal mile roun' ', and will interpret the individuality of that windswept north-eastern corner of Scotland - with due attention to the output of the legendary Joke Factory

at the theatre organ, in a programme of ' Tunes I have promised '

News commentary and interlude

from p. 57 of ' New Every Morning' and p. 18 of' Each Returning Day'

Band of the South Lancashire Regiment : conductor, Mr. F. G. H. Irving

11.0 SINGING TOGETHER : by Herbert Wiseman
The Keel Row (Northumbrian song) Lazy Robin (Welsh song)
Blaydon Races (Northumbrian song)
11.20 I YSGOLION CYMRU : (For Welsh schools). Byw yn y Wlad, gan Myfanwy Howell. 9—' Gyda'r Wawr'
11.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES : A tale to tell in pictures : 'Louisa, who loved pretty things ',by Diana Ross
12.0 THE MAKING AND CONTENT OF THE BIBLE : The Prophets. ' 'Apocalyptic ',. by the Rev. H. F. D. Sparks , University of Durham

on gramophone records
Halll Orchestra, conducted by Leslie Heward : Overture : Prince Igor (Borodin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kdussevitzky The Enchanted Lake (Lyadov)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Koussevitzky: Symphonic Poem: Tapiola (Sibelius)

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

on gramophone records
Webster Booth : Trottin' to the Fair
(Stanford). The Bailynure Ballad (arr. Hughes)
Webster Booth and Dennis Noble : Watch-man, what of the night ? (Sarjeant)
Dennis Noble : Even bravest heart, from
Faust (Gounod). Drake's Drum (Stanford)
Webster Booth and Dennis Noble :
Excelsior (Balfc)

1.50 SCIENCE AND GARDENING: ' Work to do now ' : C. F. Lawrance
2.10 Interval music
2.15 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY
2.35 Interval music
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I English for everyday use. Poetry programme. ' The Poetry of Summer '-hot days, summer games, holidays

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

Conductor, Guy Warrack

Survey by Idris Lewis , BBC Welsh Music Director, of the series of concerts devoted to present-day Welsh composers, broadcast at regular intervals since December 1941

a Cherddi Eraill. Darlleniad o gerddi diewddar J. M. Edwards. Y rhaglen o dan ofal T. Rowland Hughes. (Poetry-reading in Welsh)

Concert by young prizewinners in the recent Edinburgh and Glasgow Musical Festival, and a talk—' Let's go Fishing by Scott Kennedy

National and Regional announcements

(leader Paul Beard ) : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
From Park and Dare Han, Treorchy

Sixth edition of this erratic radio mirror giving the low down on the high-ups. Script by Charles Hatton. Music and production by Leslie Bridgmont

What you can do about it. 5—' The Health of the Mind', by a doctor

First performance in England of the ' Leningrad ' Symphony played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry Wood
Today is the anniversary of the German invasion of Soviet Russia, and the Symphony you will hear tonight was written under the stress of the attack on that great city, Leningrad. Shostakovich says that
* My Seventh Symphony is devoted to the ordinary Soviet citizens who have become heroes of this patriotic war. That is its fundamental theme.'
For further details about this work, readers are asked to refer to Ralph Hill's article in the RADIO TIMES dated May 29.

Mary Sutherland , Secretary, Standing Joint Committee of Working Women's Organisations

The story of the war in the Soviet Union, by D. G. Bridson
A year ago today Hitler treacherously attacked the Soviet Union. This programme is an epic of the bloodiest war in history, in which the adventures of three typical Russian infantrymen are traced from mobilisation, through the autumn campaign, the German advance over ' scorched earth the winter guerrilla warfare, until the Russian spring offensives began to sweep forward and reconquer territory 'from the invader. Every phase of the struggle is thus portrayed against the background of the changing seasons, and the lyrically romantic treatment of the theme admits the use of spoken verse and many fine Soviet marching songs

by R. Vaughan Williams. Poems by George Herbert
Easter ; I got me flowers ; Love bade me welcome ; The Call ; Antiphon
Herbert Heyner (tenor), and the Marjorie Hayward Quartet with John Wills (piano)

Records of armchair music

Extract from The Heart of the Country, by H. E. Bates, selected and read by Athene Seyler. Presented by Edward Sackville-West.

and his West-End Music