and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Directed by Albert Sandler

Conductor, T. Rule

(organ)
From the Town Hall, Birmingham

Gramophone records

Interlude : records

from the Church Army Military Hut, Hyde Park
0 worship the King (A. and M. 167 :
C.H.9)
Confession and Absolution Lord's Prayer
Versicles and Responses Psalm 46
Reading : St. Luke 2, vv. 41-52 Creed and Prayers
0 for a closer walk with God (A. and M.
630 ; C.H. 457)
Address by the Rev. H. H. Treacher ,
Head of the Church Army
At the name of Jesus (A. and M. 306 :
C.H. 178)
Blessing

played by Angus Morrison (piano)
Prelude and Fugue in D

Richard Crean and his Orchestra

Robin Hull : ' The Music of Rachmaninoff '

String Quartet in G minor played by the Zorian Quartet

Scott Goddard and Stephen Williams debate the merits of Liszt as composer, with gramophone records

at the organ of the Odeon, Leicester Square

Talk by Anne Scott-James

Fortnightly programme -from the countryside. Introduced by S. P. Bj. Mais. Editor, Desmond Hawkins. Music arranged by Frank Collinson. Producer, Francis Dillon

in which radio brings to life curious events of the past and present. Narrator, Patric Curwen.

by C. H. Middleton

New series presenting outstanding works by composers of this century. Maggie Teyte (soprano). BBC Symphony Orchestra : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Overture

Play by Arthur Watkyn , produced by Howard Rose
The action takes place in London and on the Portsmouth Road, in 1750

Series of talks, dealing with events of religious significance in the life of the nation, and with the work of the Churches at home and abroad, by the Rev. Nathaniel Micklem , D.D.

Rhaglen o ganu emynau o Eglwys Gynulleidfaol Bethlehem, Rhos, o dan arweiniad John Williams. Emrys Jones fydd wrth yr organ. (Welsh hymn-singing)

' My Indian Hero' : true story by ' Telli Baba '
Short recital of Sir Walford Davies 's songs, sung by Norman Stone
' Consider the Birds ', by Laurens Sargent. No. 1—' Halycons and Ellygugs '

Interlude : records

Talk by J. J. Craik Henderson M.P .

Fifth of six talks on elementary astronomy by E. N. Parker

Conductor, Ian Whyte

Tribute to outstanding workers on the war front. 10 — Shipyard workers, in a programme written by Patricia Docksey , arranged by Marjorie Banks , and produced by John Polwarth

from Wellington Church, Glasgow
Announcement and Voluntary
Metrical Psalm 65, vv. 1-4, Praise waits for thee in Sion, Lord (Tune, St. Stephen)
Prayer and the Lord's Prayer
Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us (C.H.
563 ; A. and M. 281 ; S.P. 555)
Lesson: St. Matthew 8, vv. 1-ip Prayer
City of God, how broad and far (C.H.
209 ; S.P. 468)
Address by the Rev. E. D. Jarvis
Soldiers of Christ, arise (C.H. 534
A. and M. 270 ; S.P. 641)
Blessing
Voluntary
Organist, A. M. Henderson, Organist to the University of Glasgow

Appeal on behalf of the Bengal Cyclone Disaster Relief Fund, by Sir Azizul Haque , C.I.E., High Commissioner for India
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged, and should be addressed to [address removed].

Written and produced by Maurice Brown

followed by a postscript

Comic opera by Edward German. Book and lyrics by Basil Hood. Abridged version for broadcasting by Geoffrey Dunn BBC Theatre Chorus BBC Theatre Orchestra Conductor, Stanford
Act 1 : The Bank of the Thames Act 2 : Windsor Forest

The Light of the world ; The first Nowell
(S.P. 384) ; St. Matthew 2, vv. 1-11; As with gladness (A. and M. 79) ; St. John 8, v. 12

(by permission of Herbert Wilcox and R. K. 0. (Radio Pictures)), in ' Her Majesty's Pleasure '
The musical background to sixty years in the life of Queen Victoria. Gramophone programme, devised by Harry Alan Towers , and produced by Anna Instone

at the theatre organ