and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
(Gramophone records)
Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 For women : May Brown
At the pianos, Andrew Brysoh and Barbara Laing
from Handel's Concertos
Short morning prayers
' A Day with the Potato' : Mrs. Mary Stevens
Gramophone mixture of film music
(Portsmouth)
- (by permission of the Officers, Royal
Artillery) : conductor, Meredith Roberts (Soloist, Lance-Sgt. T. Tanner> )
Slow March of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
at the organ of the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square
and his Sextet
from page 21 of "New Every Morning" and page 48 of "Each Returning Day". The God of love my shepherd is; Psalm 29; O God of earth and altar
Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra
A musical friendship. (Gramophone records)
' Visit to a Cornish Mine ' : talk by Edith Harvey
BBC Chorus : conductor, Leslie Woodgate. G. Tnalben-Ball (organ)
Taking you to an aircraft factory somewhere in the Midlands, where war-workers are entertaining their colleagues during the lunch-hour break. Arranged and introduced by Frank More O'FerraU
' Hatching Geese', by Reginald Appleyard
played by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band : conductor, George Thompson
Light entertainment by four members of the fighting forces who entertain their colleagues in their spare time. Producer, Howard M. Lockhart
' The Bard of Breembraes ', in songs old and new, gives some more sidelights on life in Breembraes
(leader, Paul Beard ) : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult. Eva Turner (soprano)
Record programme devised and presented by Peter Eton and Frederick Piffard. No. 4—West Sussex
Rhaglen ysgafn gan W. D. Williams. Y gerddoriaeth gan Idris Lewis. Y cyfarwyddo gan Sam Jones. (Welsh light programme)
5.20 ' Tracking ' : William Aspden and two young friends
5.35 Young Artists
Fuel Flash for housewives' and National and Regional announcements
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Douglas Houghton discusses the many official forms and regulations with which everyone has to deal nowadays
Henry Brooke , M.P.
Radio adaptation by Barbara Couper of the book by John Fernald. The author himself tells of his personal experiences as Navigator aboard one of the fifty U.S. destroyers transferred to the Royal Navy. Produced by Maurice Brown
Moura Lympany (piano) and Leon Goossens (oboe)
Raymond Gram Swing
24 — ' Mark Sheridan '. With Fred Yule , Gwen Lewis , Ewart Scott , Vera Lennox , and Clarence Wright. Narration by Patric Curwen , and the recorded voice of Mark Sheridan , Junior. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas. Script and production by Eric Fawcett
Evening prayers
7-with Bettie Bucknelle , Peter Akister , George Elliott , Henry Tye , Alan Paul , and Joe Linnane. Producer, Jimmy Dyrenforth. (BBC recording)
Quartet in F, Op. 77, No. 2 played by the Pro Arte Quartet. (Gramophone records)
and her Girls Band