and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

conducting his Concert Orchestra. (Gramophone records)

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

An anthology of favourites

Rev. F. A. Cockin , Canon of St. Paul's

'The Radio Doctor'

Gramophone records

Conductor, Rae Jenkins. Owen Brannigan (bass)

Carol Raye and Robin Richmond

The canals of Britain are carrying vital war transport these days. On them, women are doing the unusual work of handling the boats. One of these women talks about her job

News commentary and interlude

from page 41 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 20 of Each Returning Day '. Love divine, all loves excelling; Psalm 147, vv. 1-11 ; Glorious things of thee are spoken

Debroy Somers and his Band

11.0 SPECIAL HEALTH TALK FOR SCHOOLS: 'Coughing and Sneezing ', by the Radio Doctor
11.15 Interval music
11.20 GAMES WITH NUMBERS : third in a series of experimental broadcasts

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

and his Orchestra, with Beryl Davis , Georgina, Len Camber , George Evans , Derek Roy , the Singing Sweethearts, Three Boys and a Girl

106th in the Northern series of concerts given by war-workers during their lunch-hour break. Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe

BBC Scottish Orchestra : conductor, Guy Warrack
From the ' BBC at War ' Exhibition in the National Gallery, Edinburgh

Isabelle. M. Pagan, Eleanor Elder (Mrs. Hugh Mackay), and Kenneth Mackay, three members of an Edinburgh family, compare notes on life in Scotland yesterday and today

All arrangements by Bernard Sheaff and Gregori Tcherniak

Conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty. (Gramophone records)
Suite, The Royal Fireworks Music:
Overture — Alia Siciliana — Bourree ; Menuetto (Handel—Harty)
Romeo's Reverie and Fete of the Capulets
(Romeo and Juliet Berlioz)

Primo Scala 's Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood

Gramophone portrait of the famous Russian company. Written by Harry Alan Towers (based on material supplied by Deryck Lynham ), produced by Frederick Piffard

Harold Bradbury (tenor). Zorian String Quartet *

Play by Mabel Constanduros and Howard Agg. Produced by Hugh Stewart

a cherddi eraill. Darlleniad o gerddi A. Gwynn Jones. (Welsh poetry reading)

5.20 "The Hollycroft Robin ', by Mary Rowlands , told by Ronald Simpson. Songs by the Three Semis
5.40 app. ' Pencil and Paper' : more puzzles, .questions, and catches by P. Caton Baddeley
5.55 Children's Hour prayers

National and Regional announcements

Solo violins, Paul Beard and Marie Wilson. BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard ), conducted by Sir Henry Wood
D'Indy's symphonic variations 'Istar' is based on the" sixth Canto of ' The Epic of Izdubar ', a story taken from one of the Babylonian chronicles. D'Indy has prefaced his score with part of the poem, which tells how Istar, the Goddess of Love, seeks her lover in the land of the dead. In order to reach him she must pass through seven gStes, at each of which she must give up some of her jewels. until finally she stands naked. Thus she delivers her lover, the Son of Life. The composer himself says of this work : ' I have imagined in accordance with this programme a succession of seven variations which become gradually simplified, as if doffing fragments of clothing or adornment and revealing at the close the theme which is given out in unison, that is to say in nudity, by the full orchestra

Adapted from the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, by Howell Davies. Produced by Robert Speaight

Conductor, Fred Mortimer

Cuirm-chuil de na scann orain a bha gu trie ri'n cluinntinn. (Gaelic concert)

Social occasions of several centuries reconstructed by Esther Coleman , Sylvia Marriott , Rosamond Barnes , Vera Lennox , Lind Joyce , Peter Cotes , Wilfred Babbage , Fred Yule , the Clubmen, and Harold Scott. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas. Script by Harold Scott. Produced by Eric Spear

Poems by F. T. Prince and Frederic Prokosch. Selected and presented by Edward Sackville-West

with his Orchestra