and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Conducted by the late B. Walton O'Donnell. (Gramophone records)

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 Exercises for women: May Brown
At the pianos, Andrew Bryson and Barbara Laing

from Beethoven's Piano Sonatas (records)

Short morning prayers

' A Cook from Gateshead-on-Tyne ' : Mrs. Wren

and her Girls Band

Under the direction of Michel Spivakowsky
From the Continental Restaurant,
Bournemouth

' A WAAF Wonders ' : in a discussion with A. W. Ling , Agricultural Officer, and Wilfred Eley , Gloucestershire farmer, a WAAF wants to know how birds affect the yearly food harvest

at the theatre organ

News commentary

from page 33 of "New Every Morning" and page 50 of "Each Returning Day". Praise to the Holiest. Psalm 98; Metrical Psalm 23: The Lord's my shepherd

Harton Colliery Band : conductor, Jack Atherton

11.0 SINGING TOGETHER, by Herbert Wiseman
Dashing away with the smoothing iron
(English song)
The Poor Couple (English song)
11.20 FOR UNDER-SEVENS : Let's join in 11.40 SCIENCE AND GARDENING : 'The Garden Frame', by H. Alan Peacock
12.0 THE MAKING AND CONTENT OF
THE BIBLE. The life and letters of St. Paul : rThe Corinthian Corre spondence ', by the Rev. Kenneth Riches , Rector of Bredfield, Suffolk

Conductor, Guy Warrack

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

A personal reminiscence, with gramophone records, of the Paris revue star. Written and presented bv Roy Plomley

1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland). ' The Meal Mill by George and Ann Scott Moncrieff
2.10 Interval music
2.15 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY.
' St. Cecilia ', by Rhoda Power
2.35 ' Interval music
2.40 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES. Two contrasting movements : ' Pilgrims' March ' (Andante con moto) and ' Saltarello ', from Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4-the Italian : illustrated talk by Alec Robertson

Billy Tement and the Dance Orchestra

These programmes bring before you, month by month, the changing facets of the rural scene. Countrymen and women are brought to the microphone to speak about their lives and work.

Conducted by Julius Harrison

Conducted by Lieutenant F. J. Harris , Director of Music, Grenadier Guards ,
Regimenal March : The British Grenadiers

Stori radio gan Islwyn Williams, yn cael ei dweud gan Clydach. (Radio story in Welsh)

5.20 'Mbongi '—Gwenn Knighr tells of a trek she made in the Cameroons, and plays some of her own compositions on the piano
5.45 "The Zoo Man*

National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary

Conductor, Herbert Whittaker
CHOIR

A story of London's Theatreland, today and yesterday, by Lewis Middleton Harvey. Music by Kenneth Pakeman. Produced by Martyn C. Webster. 1-' Introducing the Principals '

Series of discussions on the purpose of education. 4—'Mind' (i). A schoolmaster, the Principal of a University College, a Director of Education, and a girl who has recently left school

with Turner Layton, Beryl Orde; 'Meet Doctor Morelle', by Ernest Dudley, with Dennis Arundell as the strange Doctor; Robb Wilton in 'A Matter of Form', by Dick Pepper; '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. 'Year by Year'. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman

Talk by Mary Ferguson

Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Brandenburg Concerto, No. 4, in G...Bach., Overture. Scherzo, and Finale.... Schumann

The story of a famous brass band personality, told by some of his colleagues, William Halliwell , Walter Nuttall , J. A. Greenwood , and Fred Mortimer , with Foden's Motor Works Band

A passage from Dickens's "Little Dorrit".

and his Band

Poems by Welsh poets, selected by Keidrich Rhys , and presented by Stephen Potter