and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Conducted by Captain J. C. Windram. (Gramophone records)

two years ago
Popular records of August 1940

Shortcoming prayers

' It's Your Idea '

Mixed choice of records. The high spot is 'American Fantasy ' by Victor Herbert , played by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra

with his Quaqet

Talk by James Pester , London taxi driver, now driver of a hospital-unit car

at the organ of the GrSnada, Harrow

News commentary and interlude

from p. 1 of ' New Every Morning ' and p. 6 of ' Each Returning Day '

Jack Leon and his Orchestra

Conducted by Mr. B. H. Brown

and his Orchestra, with Douise Hayward

on gramophone records
K.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, New York, conducted by Toscanini : Overture : William Tell {Rossini)
Sadler's Wells Orchestra, conducted by Constant Lambert . Solo piano, Louis Kentner : Dante sonata (Liszt, orch. Lambert)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux : La Valsc, Poeme choreographique (Ravel)

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

played bv Tom Bromley and George Mantle-Childe

Broadcast version of the activities of the ' Haggis Club' at this famous rendezvous, with Ronnie Munro and the Scottish Variety Orchestra. Produced by Ian Sadler

on gramophone records
Chaliapin (bass) : Varlaam's song, In the town of Kazan (Boris Godounov :
Mussorgsky)
Lettish Choir : Chorus of the Maidens of Sandimor (Boris Godounov : Mussorgsky)
Nina Koshetz (soprano) : Berceuse (Sadko :
Rimsky-Korsakov)
Chaliapin (bass) : Miller's Aria (Roussalka :
Dargomizhsky)
Pozemkovsky (tenor) and Chaliapin (bass) :
Mad Scene and Death of the Miller (Roussalka : Dargomizhsky)

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

Quintet in E flat for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, and piano. (K.452) played by Alec Whittaker (oboe), Reginald Kell (clarinet), Charles Gregory (horn), Gilbert Vinter (bassoon), and John Wills (piano)

' The Admirable Crichton ', scholar and soldier of the sixteenth century : talk by Edwin Muir

at the theatre organ in a programme of contrasted selections

with Tommy Williams , Nicky Harvey , Sampson Hosking , and the Mousehole Male Voice Choir, conducted by John C. Potter. -Bill Blewett acts as chairman and introduces the items. (Special BBC recording)

Discussion between a group of housewives and Freddy Grisewood

Stori radio gan Jac Lewis Williams yn cael ei dweud gan Clydach. (Story in Welsh)

Soldiers' songs from the last war, with the BBC Military Band (conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell ) and a Male Voice Trio
Play : ' Lullaby', adapted by Muriel Fyfe from ' Tales of a Grandfather '

National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary

In which the ' Workers' Playtime ' unit-Bill Gates and the two pianists, George Myddleton :ind Bruce Merry---exchange the factory canteen for the studio. Presented by Leslie Bridgmont

by Ranajd MacDougall. Music by Benjamin Britten. Recorded in the New York office of the BBC, and produced by Charles A. Schenck , Jr.

Talk by S. H. Kirby
Stephen Kirby is the headmaster of a school near one of our ports. He describes some of the changes that the war has brought in his job.

with Jackie Hunter, Tessa Deane; 'Meet Doctor Morelle', by Ernest Dudley — presenting the secret memoirs of perhaps the strangest personality in the annals of criminal investigation, with Dennis Arundell as the mysterious doctor; Jacques Brown as 'Nikolus Ridikoulos'; 'Puzzle Corner'; 'Radio Rendezvous' — weekly meeting of factory workers and famous personalities arranged by Leonard Urry; 'Musical Alphabet', and the Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman

Conducted by Julius Harrison

and his Sextet, with Alfred Hepworth

and his Band »

with Reg Leopold and his Players