and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

(bass), on gramophone records

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith

An anthology of favourites

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

Programme Parade

International Potato Week. Another Prize-winning Dish: Ruth Drew

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 theatre organ

Introductory music
Prayer
O God our help in ages past (A. and M. 165. omitting v. 5; S.P. 598, omitting v. 5; C.H. 601, omitting v. 5) (Tune: St. Anne)
Interlude
Prayers: The Prayer for Home; the Lord's Prayer
Soldiers of the Cross, arise (A. and M. 588, omitting v. 2; S.P. 642; C.H. 341, omitting v. 2) (Tune: Crucis Milites)
Blessing
Closing music

and his Orchestra

(For Welsh schools). Cwrs y Byd

News commentary and interlude

from page 97 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 36 of Each Returning Day
Come. thou Holy Spirit, come ; Psalm 1-5 ; Come down, 0 love divine

Josef Hassid (violin), on gramophone records
Humoreske (Dvorák—Kreisler) Caprice Viennois (Kreisler)
Spanish' Dance: Zapateado (Sarasate)

Last week's talk on Discipline discussed by Gwen Chesters , of the Tavistock Clinic, and a mother

SCOTTISH HERITAGE: 'Heather and Bracken'
11.20 ' IF YOU WERE CHINESE ' : 4-' Street Scenes in a City'. Dr. Yeh, London Director of the Chinese Ministry of Information, talks of Chinese cities old and new. Serial story: Mei-Mei and Dee-Dee go shopping and sight-seeing
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. Psychology: 3—' The Growth of Character', by James Drever

on gramophone records

Halle Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent: Overture to Aristophanes' comedy, The Wasps (Vaughan Williams)

Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stokowski: Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque) (Debussy)

Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vaclav Talich: From Bohemia's Fields and Woods (Ma Vlast - My Country: Smetana)

ENSA concert for war-workers from a factory canteen. Arthur Salisbury and his Orchestra, with Renee Barr and Johnny Green. Guest artists, Percy Manchester and Johnny Lock wood

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

BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ian Whyte
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor
Bach—Whyte
Five Variants on Dives and Lazarus
Vaughan Williams
Four Dances from Checkmate...Arthur Bliss

2.0 TRAVEL TALKS. North and Central America. ' C.P.R. ' : a coast-to-coast trip with the conductor, by Janet Dunbar
2.15 Interval music
2.20 i YSGOLION CYMRU (for Welsh schools). Rhigwm a Chan : cyfres i blant dan naw mlwydd oed. 4-Stori'r ' Dorth Gron ' yn cael ei chyflwyno gan Isaac Davies
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH-I. English for everyday use. ' Faithful Reporting ' : a member of the Forces helps Jack and Peggy to see that records must be accurate, simple, and well ordered

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom-Orchestra

Conductor, Guy Warrack

These programmes bring before you month by month, the changing facets of the rural scene. Countrymen and countrywomen are brought to the microphone to speak about their lives and work, and although representative of the life of country folk, the series should hold much of interest to townspeople too

Conducted by Kneale Kelley

Sgwrs gan Aelod Seneddol. (Talk in Welsh)

(Special announcements or a topical talk in Welsh)

Story for the youngest listeners. Folk tunes of our Allies, played by the BBCs Military Band: conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell. Singer, Alexander Carmichael. Nature Notes, collected by H. Mortimer Batten, read by Tom Smith

National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary

Fourteenth of a series of gramophone programmes presented by Compton Mackenzie . 1

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 3 : The Coming of the ' Serio' - Jenny Hill, the Vital Spark - The Royal Aquarium - The Alhambra - The end of Leybourne and Vance - The Great Macdermott - The London Pavilion
Cast includes Vernon Watson, Ernest Shannon, Joan Young, Harold Scott.
Narrator, Dick Francis.
Revue Chorus and the augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas

2-' A Reasonable Belief ' : talk by the Rev. Father M. C. D'Arcy; S.J.

'The Habitable World' : talk by D. M. S. Watson , F.R.S.
Tonight's talk in this important series is about how the world became fit to live in and where life first began : how, in the course of an immense time, first plants, then animals, and lastly man himself were able to inhabit the earth.

A monodrama. Reading by Robert Harris of Tennyson's poem, with incidental music selected by Edward Sackville-West, and played by the BBC Northern Orchestra.

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

' Leadership and Authority 1: discussion between C. H. Robinson , F. G. Peters , W. K. Werner , J-Hurlock, and D. B. Corbyn

Conducted by Captain J. A. Thomburrow, Director of Music, Royal Horse Guards

Fifth of six special programmes irr celebration of his 70th birthday
Song Cycle: On Wenlock Edge ' sung by Trefor Jones (tenor), with the Griller String Quartet and Denis Matthews (piano)

and postscript

A tale of sentiment by W. M. Thackeray , adapted for broadcasting and produced by Jenifer Wayne
Susan the maid, Bill, and the customers played by Betty Jardine , Hedley Goodall , Eric Lugg and Phyllis Smale
Music specially composed by Reginald Redman , and played by Joan Allen , Olive Woodington , and W. H. Cook , with Reginald Redman at the piano

at the theatre organ

Reading of a passage from the "Arcadia" of Sir Philip Sidney.