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

Rev. McEwan Lawson

Bruce Blunt : ' Living by Numbers '

The choice of a one-time worker in the BBC gramophone library, now serving in the Royal Navy. Arranged by Ronald Colton and presented by Raymond Raikes

Messages from British children now living in Australia to their parents at home. Programme arranged in collaboration with the Australian
Broadcasting Commission

played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (conductor, Rae Jenkins ), with Sylvia Welling (soprano)

at the organ of the Ritz Cinema, Belfast, with songs by James John ston (tenor)

News commentary and interlude

from page 25 of ' New Every Morning ', and page 46 of ' Each Returning Day '. 0 God, our help in ages past ; Psalm 62 ; Lord of our life, and God of our salvation

Nat Allen and his Band

11.0 RHYTHM AND MELODY. John Horton. ' The Five-Note Scale '
11.20 GEOGRAPHY. India : ' Heavy Industry in the Damodar Valley', by George Godfrey
11.40 ENGLISH FOR UNDER-NINES. Songs , from the ' Tom Thumb' plays ; and ' Hare Comes Home ', a dramatised nonsense story -

played by the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Leslie Woodgate

Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain

Eda Kersey (violin) ; Frederick Orinke (violin) ; James Whitehead (cello) ; Arnold Goldsbrough (organ)

8 - 'When should we begin?' Talk by Mrs. Marcia Hall

2.0 NATURE STUDY. ' High Notes and Low. Notes', by A. J. Mee : simple experiments with musical instruments
2.15 Interval music
2.26 1 YSGOLION CYMRU. (For Welsh schools). ' Y Pentref '. Cyfres i Wantdros maw mlwydd oed. 10—' Y Comin'. Ceir hanes y comin a chau'r comins yn y ganrif ddiwethaf
2.40 SENIOR HISTORY. The United States of America : Thanksgiving Day programme, and the answers to a few questions
6

Percival Mackey and his Orchestra

My lqve dwelt in a northern land Serenade
0 happy eyes
Feasting, I watch sung by the BBC Chorus, conducted by G. Thalben-Ball

Conducted by Julian Clifford

Frank Swinnerton talks again on new and recent books

with Monia Liter

(Studio Service in Welsh).. Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r llyfr ' Bob Bore" of Newydd '

' Spanish Galleon ' : new serial play by Tudur Watkins. Episode 3—' The Jolly Fishermen'

Fuel Flash for housewives, and National and Regional announcements

The principal talk tonight is on the subject of milk-yields and suitable types of dairy cows. Speakers, C. E. Harvey of Thorpe and W. A. Stewart of the Northamptonshire Institute of Agriculture. Other items include ' Farm Record ' and Barbara Brew 's monthly talk to the Women's Land Army. This month she brings with her a member of the Land Army of the last war "

What it means in 1942 to the people of a small New England town. Broadcast from Wilton, Connecticut. Produced by Olive Shapley of the New York office of the BBC

The songs and story of the Twentieth-Century Fox Picture. Paula Green , John Slater , the Bachelor Girls, the Cowpunchers, BBC Revue Chorus, and augmented Dance Orchestra, directed by Billy Tement , with Roland Peachey and George Elliott. Continuity and presentation by Vernon Harris.

Weekly programme for. under-twenties, introduced by Hamilton Kennedy

Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult '

by Admiral Sir Ragnar Colvin , K.B.E., C.B.

War dramas of the week : reconstruction of the news from the battle-fronts of the world. General editor, Robert Barr. Music under the direction of George Walter. Produced by John Glyn-Jones

Evening prayers

Fourth of six special programmes in celebration of the 400th anniversary of his birth
BBC Chorus : conductor,
Leslie Woodgate. G. Thalben-Ball (organ) CHORUSG. THALBEN-BALL A Voluntary (My Lady Nevell's Book)CHORUSG. THALBEN-BALL Miserere (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book) CHORUS

Twentieth of a series of gramophone programmes presented by Compton Mackenzie

and his Correct Tempo Ballroom Band, with Edna Kaye , Lyn Rayner , and Paul Rich