and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Conducted by W. Halliwell. (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

' A Cook from Devonshire ' : Mrs.
Hodge

Gramophone mixture of film music

Conducted by Captain 0. W. Geary , M.B.E., Director of Music, Royal Artillery

playing a selection of Christmas melodies at the organ of the Granada, Clapham

and his Sextet

from page 13 of * New Every Morning ' and page 26 of * Each Returning Day
Angel voices, ever singing ; Psalm 148 ; Teach me, my God and King

Troise and his Banjoliers

and his Orchestra

by John Cheney. Produced by Leonard Cottrell. Recording of the broadcast on November 27)

Conductor, Guy Warrack

Isabel Gray (piano), and Harold Child (baritone)

Short story by J. Jefferson Farjeon , read by James Langham. (Previously broadcast on January 24)

Verdi's opera, broadcast in full from the Opera House, Leicester. The Sadler's Wells Opera Company, produced by Tyrone Guthrie and Powell Lloyd , and conducted by Herbert Menges
Scene : Paris 1840

with Gwen Catley and Ivor John. Accompanied by the Orchestra, conducted by Billy Tement. Verse chosen by Aubrey Danvers-Walker , and read by Norman Wooland. Presented by Michael North

Rhaglen amserol gan W. D. Williams. Y gerddoriaeth gan Idris Lewis a'r cyfarwyddo gan Sam Jones. (Welsh light programme)

American Party : Join in the fun at an American Red Cross Service club in Northern Ireland, where U.S. soldiers are entertaining the children

National and Regional announcements

' For the 300th and last time we stop the London traffic in order to introduce some of the interesting people who are In Town Tonight'. Personalities from every walk of life interviewed by Joan Clark and Lionel Gamlin. Edited and produced by C. F. Meehan

Douglas Houghton deals with the many regulations with which we all have to deal

Megan Lloyd George, M.P.

' BBC at War' : a radio reconstruction of the work of the BBC in wartime. Narrator, Leslie Howard. Written by Basil Woon , and directed by Laurence Gilliam. London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Muir Mathieson. Recording of the tenth of a 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 Blue Network

Conducted by Clarence Raybould

Talk on some of the problems of short-wave transmissions by Sir Edward Appleton , K.C.B., F.R.S.

with Ethel Lyon , Derek Oldham , ana the BBC' Theatre Orchestra, conducted b" Charles Groves. Narrator, Christopher Stone. Programme arranged by Gwen Williams

Shortened form of Evensong

' These Journeys are Necessary'. Written by V. S. Pritchett , and produced by Leonard Cottrell

3— ' The Horse with the Delicate Air'. A fantasy, adapted by Roy Plomley from a short story by Frederick Piffard , with music on records
All other parts played by Macdonald Parke. Narrator, Frank Phillip ;. Produced by Frederick Piffard

and his Orchestra