and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

on gramophone records

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

Spanish piano music

Short morning prayers

' A Cook from Belfast ' : Mrs. Charlotte Ramsay

Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Chabrier's Espana, played by the Boston Promenade Orchestra, conducted by Arthur Fiedler

and his Orchestra
Tunes of the Times

Nature talk by H. R. Jukes

at the theatre organ in a programme of ' Tunes I have promised'

News commentary

from page 37 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 14 of ' Each Returning Day '. Metrical Psalm 46, vv. 1-5 ; Psalm 4 ; Lead us, heavenly Father

Falkman and his Apache Band

11.0 SINGING TOGETHER, by Herbert Wiseman
Song of the Volga Boatmen (Russian song) Tom's gone to Hllo (sea shanty)
The Frog and the Mouse (English song)
11.20 FOR UNDER-SEVENS : Let's join in-the story of Billy Bobtail , and how he went to seek his fortune and found it
11.40 SCIENCE AND GARDENING. 'Work to do now', by C. F. Lawrance
12.0 THE MAKING AND CONTENT OF THE BIBLE. The life and letters of St. Paul. 'The Letter to the Romans', by the Rev. C. F. D. Moule, Vice-Principal of Ridley-Hall, Cambs.

Conducted by Leslie Heward

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

at the piano with his Quartet, playing his own impressions, The Seasons : Murmurs of Spring ; Summer Breezes; Autumn Sunshine ; Winter Skies

1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland). ' The Gamekeeper ', by George and Ann Scott Moncrieff
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2.10 Interval music

Beowulf (Fifth Century A.D.). The war-song of our barbarian ancestors (Grendel)
2.35 Interval music

' What is an Opera ? ' Talk by Ronald Biggs , with illustrations from Carmen and other famous operas

Billy Ternent and the Dance Orchestra

(leader Byron Brooke ) : conductor, Montague Birch
From the Pavilion, Bournemouth

Programme of his part songs, sung by the BBC Chorus : conductor, Leslie Woodgate
A New Year Carol Immortality
When May is in his prime Twilight Night
Spring, the sweet spring

featuring the BBC Military Band (conductor, P. S. G. O'Donnell ), in a programme to which the people have marched. Devised and written by Harry Alan Towers . Narrator, Tom Dawson

Y sefyllfa yng Nghymru heddiw. Cyflwynir y siaradwyr gan R. Alun Roberts. (Talk in Welsh)

' In the Rocky Mountains' : traveller's tale, by Bernard Newman

Devised and produced by Douglas Cleverdon

National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary

Joan Taylor (soprano) Betty Sagon (mezzo-soprano). Nottingham Oriana Choir. BBC Orchestra, conducted by Roy Henderson
CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA SOLOISTS, CHOIR, AND ORCHESTRA

A story of London's Theatreland today and yesterday, by Lewis Middleton Harvey. 3-' Danny's Divan '. Music by Kenneth Pake man. Produced by Martyn C. Webster

First of two discussions on character in this series on the purpose of education. Philip Morris, Director of Education for Kent, a Colonel who is President of an Officers' Selection Board, and C.A. Downs, Head Teacher of Bulstrode Senior Boys School

with Elisabeth Welch; Ernest Butcher; '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', and the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper and Ronald Waldman

Talk by Mary Smieton

or ' The Remarkable Shrub', by Margaret Gore-Browne and Leon M. Lion , freely founded on a blend of Ernest Bramah 's series of stories in ' The Wallet of Kai Lung ' and ' Kai Lung Unrolls his Mat'. Produced by Howard Rose

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 59
(First broadcast performance)
Two Sketches Op 15 : By the Tarn ; Jack o' Lantern played by the Stratton String Quartet

Short story, written for broadcasting by Meryon Vance , and read by Courtney Sandell

Tribute to one of Scotland's greatest singers, presented, with gramophone records, by Gordon Whelan

and his Correct Tempo Ballroom Band, with Edna Kaye, Irene King, and Paul Rich. From the Hammersmith Palais de Danse

Poems by W. H. Auden and Roy Fuller.