and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Recording of messages from children in Durban which were to have been broadcast on February 3. Arranged in collaboration with the South African Broadcasting Corporation

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

' Diet in Ill-Health ', by ' The Radio Doctor'

Gramophone records

and his Sextet

Rawicz and Landauer

Topical magazine programme
Dr. James Johnstone , Physician superintendent of a Scottish hospital which specialises in the care 'of merchant seamen, will speak of the work which he and his colleagues are doing. Before him in the programme comes a review of the activities of the British Colour Council, now holding an exhibition in Edinburgh. An Edinburgh woman who will tell you how to make cotton reels into chessmen for the troops, and a West Scotland butcher discusses the light and shade of his job in wartime.

News commentary

from page 57 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 18 of * Each. Returning Day '. Glory to thee who safe has kept ; Psalm 142 ; Christian, seek not yet repose

Primo Scala 's Accordion Band, directed by Harry Bidgood

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS. Ann Driver. ' Rhythmic Patterns': further training in recognising the time values of musical phrases
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
11.40 Interval music
11.45 GAMES WITH WORDS

with his Orchestra

116th in the Northern series of concerts given by war-workers during... their lunch-hour break. Arranged and , presented by Victor Smythe

Myra Hess and the New London Orchestra (conductor, Alec Sherman )*, play Mozart's Piano Concerto in D (K.451)

1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Exploring our village. The Parish Council ', by Edith MacQueen : membership and elections ; the Parish meeting ; Council business
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE. Heat in the home : ' Humphrey Davy and the Safety Lamp', by Joseph Lauwerys
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. Book talk, including two dramatised scenes from ' White Fang ', by Jack London

Twelve men of the R.A.F. at present training in South Africa talk with their relatives and friends in this country in a two-way exchange programme. Arranged in collaboration with the South African Broadcasting Corporation

Comedy by F. Morton Howard , produced by Hugh Stewart
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Leslie Heward. Dorothy Donald -son (mezzo-soprano)

Sgwrs, yn fwyaf arbennig i ffermwyr, gan y Dr. T. J. Jenkin. (Talk in Welsh)

5.20 Story for the youngest listeners : ' The Queen Smiled ', by Janet Fraser , read by Tom Smith
Indoor team games, in which two school teams (girls v. boys) compete in a session of tongue-twisting, whistling, and memory tests
Scottish shepherd's stories by Scott Kennedy
5.55 -Children's Hour prayers

followed by National and Regional announcements

Play by Peter Cheyney , produced by Fred O'Donovan

BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard ) : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult =
During the interval, at 8.0 app., the conductor, Sir Adrian Boult has a talk with an ordinary concert-goer. (Special recording)

Owen Nares, Constance Cummings , and Hartley Power , in ' The
Petrified Forest', by Robert E. Sherwood. Excerpts from Norman Marshall 's production now running at the Globe Theatre, London. Others taking - part are Joyce Kennedy , Douglas Jefferies , Robert Beatty , Gerald Lawson , Gwyn Nicholls , Harry Ross , Raymond Mander , and James Smartt. Programme presented by Peter Creswell. . (BBC recording)

An ' after-the-theatre ' revue- with Yvonne Arrfeud , Edward Cooper , Gwen Lewis , Graham Payn , Barbara Starnes , and Elisabeth Welch. Clive Richardson and Tony Lowry at two pianos. Book by Phillip Leaver and Edward Cooper. Music by Edward Cooper and Geoffrey Wright. Produced by Reginald Smith

George Blake reviews the month in Scotland

played by the Kim Murray Strath spey and Reel Players, directed by Kim Murray

New poems by Louis MacNeice. Selected and presented by Edward Sackville-West

and his Correct Tempo Ballroom
'Band, with Edna Kaye , Irene King , and Paul Rich , from the Hammer
.smith Palais de Danse

with Reg Leopold and his Players and Jack Cooper