and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Conducted by Capt. 0. W. Geary. (Gramophone records)

. Exercises for men : George Welton
7.40 Exercises for women : May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Mollie Davie

An anthology of favourites

J. S. Braithwaite

' A Cook from Hull' : Mrs. Johnson

Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition, including Bydlo, Promenade, and Ballet of the Chickens, played by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski

and his Orchestra

Talk about Edinburgh amusements in the 1900s, by John W. Oliver , D.Litt.

at the theatre organ

News commentary and interlude

from page 33 of 'New Every Morning', and page 50 of 'Each Returning Day'
I heard an Infant weeping; Psalm 3; The race that long in darkness pined

Jack Simpson and his Sextet

Moura Lympany (piano) and Joy McArden (soprano)

Easy, breezy tunes on gramophone
, records

Conducted by Gideon Fagan

ENSA concert for war-workers from a factory canteen. Mantovani and his Orchestra with Alan Kane. Guest artists, Cheerful Charlie Chester and Margaret Downey

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

played by the BBC Military Band : conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell

Tunes from the Great White Way, on gramophone records

An excerpt presented by Tom Arnold. From the Empire Theatre, Liverpool and

Nat Allen and his Band

Talk on South Wales, by Idris Davies

Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult

Description of a recent voyage by peace-time and amateur yachtsmen to deliver a small boat for the Admiralty. Written and devised by John Gray. Presented by the Recorded Programmes Department

Darlleniad o gerddi newydd gan rai o'n prif feirdd. Y gyfres o dan ofal, T. Rowland Hughes. (Poetry reading in Welsh)

5.20 Story : ' The Admiralty Cat', by Nourah Waterhouse
5.40 ' Copying Nature ' : series of programmes by William Aspden , showing how man has modelled his inventions on the pattern set by Nature. 1-' Aviation '

National and Regional announcements, and Scottish News summary

Seated one day at the organ ' : Dr. Thalben-Ball

Serial play in six episodes, adapted by Hugh Stewart , from the novel by I. A. R. Wylie. Episode 2—' In Full Cry ! ' .

answering ' Any Questions ? ' set by the BBC Brains Trust. Question-Master, Donald McCullough. Producer, Howard Thomas. Six listeners meet under exactly the same conditions as the Brains Trust and try their luck with questions. Taking part are a soldier, a business man, a housewife, an entertainer, a factory-worker, a Service girl. (Specially recorded)

with Joyce Grenfell, Gordon Little; 'Meet Dr. Morelle', by Ernest Dudley, with Dennis Arundell as the mysterious Doctor; 'Puzzle Corner'; 'Inquisition' — a slightly uncomfortable few minutes for some famous people from all walks of life, introduced by C. Denier Warren as 'The Grand Inquisitor' and presented by Leonard Urry; 'Musical Alphabet', and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman

Talk by Mary Ferguson

reading poems chosen by themselves.
As the result of the second series of auditions, at which sixty poetry-readers of no previous microphone experience were tested, five voices were chosen to read for you tonight.

and his Band, with Harry Davis ; featuring Diane, Bobby Young , Alan Dean , Terry Devon , and Eddie Palmer with his novachord

Conducted by Harold Lowe , with Gordon Clinton (baritone)

Poems by Alexander Blok. Selected and presented by Edward Sackville -West

these gramophone records
Gordon String Quartet : Quartet in A minor (7. Alden Carpenter )
Pro Arte String Quartet : Interludium in modo antico. (No. 3 of Five Novellettes, Op. 15 : Glazunov)
Taffanel Society of Wind Instruments, with Lucien Wurmser (piano) : Gavotte (Sextet for wind instruments and piano r Thuille)