and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

on gramophone records

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

An anthology of favourites

Short morning prayers

Foreign flavours from Switzerland ,

for relatives and friends in Great Britain. Recorded in India by men of the British Army who fought in the Burma Campaign. Arranged in collaboration with All-India Radio

at the organ of the Warner, Leicester Square

Introductory music Prayer
All people that on earth do dwell (A. and M. 166, omitting v. 5 ; S.P. 443, omitting v. 5 ; C.H. 229 ; Tune: ' Old Hundredth
Interlude
Prayers : The Prayer for God's Presence ; the Lord's Prayer
He who would valiant be (A. and M.
676; S.P. 515; C.H. 576) (Sung in the S.P. version; Tune: 'Monks' Gate')
Blessing
Closing music

and his Orchestra

(For Welsh schools). Cwrs y Byd

News commentary and interlude

from page 105 of New Every Morning ' and page 24 of ' Each Returning Day '. Awake, our souls ! away our fears 1
Psalm 46 ; Father, to thee we took in all our sorrow

sung by Kenneth Ellis (bass)
Cupid's Song: The glories of our blood and state Pavane of the Duchess of M-dina ; A Child's Song ; Ear! Bristol's Farewell ; When icicles hang by the wall

2 — 'The Importance of Discipline': talk by Dr. William Blatz , Professor of Child Study, University of Toronto

11.0 SCOTTISH HERITAGE. ' The Lady Devorgilla ', written by Elha LUms den. The story of the lady who built Sweetheart Abbey and Balliol College, Oxford
11.20 'IF YOU were CHINESE'. '. 3-' The Yangtse Kiang ' : Dr. Yeh, Director of the Chinese Ministry of Information in London, talks about China's most important river.
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS : Psychology—2 : ' What is a Self ? by James Drever

Gramophone records
Prisca Quartet: Allegro (Quartet in E minor) (Verdi)
Pro Arte Quartet, and Claude Hobday
(double bass) : Scherzo (The Trout Quintet : Schubert) ,
Rachmaninoff (piano): Grave-Allegro
(Sonata in B flat minor : Chopin)
Silverman Piano Quartet: Allegro con
Fuoco (Quartet in E flat. Op. 87: Dvorak)

ENSA concert for war-workers from a factory canteen. Carroll Gibbons and his Orchestra. Guest artist, Pat Kirkwood

Week-end notes for women gardeners, by Anna Scarlett and Elizabeth Cowell

BBC Chorus. BBC Orchestra. Conducted by Leslie Woodgate. Anne Wood (contralto) Soloists: Margaret Godley (soprano) ;
Margaret Rolfe (contralto) ; Bradbridge White (tenor) ; Stanley Riley (baritone)

2.0 TRAVEL TALKS. North and Central America: ' As far as the eye can see', by Amy Hall : a prairie wheat farm in winter and summer
2.15 Interval music
2.20 I YSGOLION CYMRU. (For Welsh schools.) Rhigwm a Chan : cyfres i blant dan naw mlwydd oed. 3 — ' Tro i'r Fferm', gan Huldah Bassett
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I. English for everyday use. ' Notice-Board and Note-Book'

Scottish Variety Orchestra : conductor, Ronnie Munro

Conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell

Dorothy Garwood , who works all day in a stockbroker's office, talks about N.F.S. work and herself

BBC Singers, conducted by G. Thalben-Ball
(All edited by E. H. Fellowes )

Conducted by Kneale Kelley

Sgwrs gan Aelod Seneddol. (Talk in Welsh)

Sgwrs gan feddyg. (Talk in Welsh)

5.20 Letter from America - 12, by Olive Shapley

5.30 'Fine Feathers'
'A scandal in Birdland', reported for younger listeners, in music and story, by Lyn Joshua

5.50 'Farmer Jones': story by Antonia Ridge, read by Philip Phillips

National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary

Fortnightly talks for Northern Ireland listeners on some of the problems that condition our wartime lives

Story of the British Music-Hall, from 1820 to 1942, in eight episodes, revised and written by W. Macqueen -Pope and Gale Pedrick. Music selected and composed by Kenneth Leslie-Smith . Radio adaptation and production by Vernon Harris. Chapter 2 : The Canterbury sets a fashion -The boom begins-Big money for the stars-E. W. Mackney-Sam Collins --Charles Leybourne-Enter the Lion Comique-The Great Vance -Jolly John Nash-High jinks at the Prince of Wales's party. Cast includes Vernon Watson , Ernest Shannon , Joan Young , Harold Scott. Narrator, Dick Francis. The Revue Chorus and the augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas

1 — ' The Meaning of Belief and Reason': Rev Father M. C. D'Arcy , S.J.

2 — ' The Age of the Earth ', talk by D. M. S. Watson, F.R.S.

Recording of the ninth of a special BBC feature series under the direction of Laurence Gilliam, broadcast weekly in the BBC North American Service and re-broadcast in the United States by the National Broadcasting Company
Radio picture of Britain seen through American eyes, written by Louis MacNeice and directed by Laurence Gilliam, with Leslie Howard as narrator. Music composed by Benjamin Britten, and played by the London Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Muir Mathieson).

with Jack Train ; and Dino Galvani , Sydney Keith , Horace Percival , Clarence Wright , Fred Yule , Dorothy Summers , Kay Cavendish , Paula Green and Pat Rignold. Written by Ted Kavanagh. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Francis Worsley

(' The Bat '). Opera by Johann Strauss. English words by Alfred Kalisch , with additional lyrics by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley . Adapted for broadcasting and with new dialogue by Geoffrey Dunn. Produced by the conductor, Stanford Robinson , and Mark H. Lubbock
(The names in parentheses are those assumed by the characters at the ball)
BBC Theatre Chorus, BBC Theatre Orchestra
Scene: Vienna, and a near-by watering-place, in 1874

and postscript

Tennyson Jubilee. ' Tithonus ', read by Cecil Day Lewis. Selected and presented by Edward Sackville-West

Serenade, Op: 30 played by the Philharmonic Ensemble

and his Orchestra