and summary of today's programmes for the Forces.•

Conducted by Lieut. A. Lemoine. (Gramophone records)

Exercises for men: Coleman Smith

Exercises for women: May Brown

An anthology of favourites

Very Rev. W. R. Matthews , K.C.V.O., D.D., Dean of St. Paul's

International Potato Week: 'The Winning Dish', by Ruth Drew

Mixed choice of records, including a selection of high spots from previous programmes.

Before you know it, I'll be home,
Mary Silver and Shertmm

'West-Coast Farm': a Scottish city man looks back on his wartime holiday
In this new series speakers recall some of the places that for them are unforgettable - it may be the town or village where they were brought up, a holiday place where they were specially happy, or perhaps the scene of an unusual experience.

at the organ of the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle

News commentary and interlude

from page 109 of 'New Every Morning' and page 28 of 'Each Returning Day'. Blest are the pure in heart. Benedictus. My God, accept my heart this day

A.J. Powell and his Banjo Octet

11.0 SINGING TOGETHER : by Herbert Wiseman
'Old King Cole (English nursery rhyme) Greensleeves (English song)
Hunting the Wren (Manx song)
11.20 FOR UNDER-SEVENS. Let's join in-a story about ' This is the way the ladies ride ' and two other nursery rhymes, ' One, two, buckle my shoe ' and ' Hob shoe Hob '
11.40 SCIENCE AND GARDENING. ' Taking Stock and Making Plans ' : H. Alan Peacock
12.0 THE MAKING AND CONTENT OF THE BIBLE. The Old Testament : ' The Historical Books ', by the Rev. H. F. D. Sparks of Durham University

Conducted by Gideon Fagan

Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3, in A flat. - Dvorák
Rumanian Folk Dances - Banok
Scherzo in A - Goldmark
Rhapsodic Dance : The Bamboula - Coleridge-Taylor

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

Fifth of a series of gramophone programmes of contrasts, theories, and opinions, presented by Spike Hughes.

1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland). ' Out with the Van ', by George and Ann Scott Moncrieff : the relation of Cardroch to the surrounding country
2.10 Interval music
2.15 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY : ' The Dream of Astyages ', by Rhoda Power : story from Herodotus about the Medes and the Persians, concerning the childhood of Cyrus the Great
2.35 Interval music
2.40 ORCHESTRAL CONCFRT SERIES. ' Handel and his Music ' : illustrated talk by Reginald Jacques

Billy Ternent and the Dance Orchestra

Gramophone records of Russian music
Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Koussevitzky : Khovanshchina — Introduction (Mussorgsky—Rimsky-Korsakov)
Rachmaninoff (piano) and the Philadelphia
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stokowski : Piano Concerto No. 2, in C minor (Rachmaninoff)

Talk by Vincent Lloyd Jones

Twenty-five minutes of music by the BBC Revue Orchestra; conductor, Mansel Thomas

a thelynegion eraill. Darlleniad o gerddi o waith Hywel D. Lewis. (Poetry reading in Welsh)

'Music Making': recorded programme of the musical activities of various groups of children in different parts of Wales
'Please Tell Us': nature quiz, in which William Aspden is put to the test by a group of children in the studio

National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary

(Born October 12, 1872)
First of six special programmes in celebration of his 70th birthday.
Music written for the occasion by Alan Bush, Patrick Hadley, Gordon Jacob, Constant Lambert, Elizabeth Maconchy, Robin Milford, and Edmund Rubbra. Played by a section of the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Clarence Raybould. Introduced by Hubert Foss.

Talk on 'Freedom of Speech': why this freedom has been fought for so jealously in the past, and how far it is restricted, in both war and peace. The speakers, among whom are a historian, and a barrister with special experience of wartime restrictions, try to bring out the actual position as it affects us today, in the Press, on the platform, and on the air.

Play for broadcasting by Louis MacNeice, with music by William Walton. BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Chorus, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult.
[Starring] Laurence Oliver and Margaret Rawlings

Talk by Mary Ferguson

Act 2
Additional characters, in order of speaking

with his Orchestra and artists

Reading of sortie sonnets of the nineteenth century. Selected and presented by Edward Sackville-West

Quintet in E flat, Op. 16 played by the Taffanel Society of Wind Instruments, and Lucien Wurmser (piano). (Gramophone records)