and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Conducted by Lt.-Col. George Miller. (Gramophone records)

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

from Mozart's Concertos

Short morning prayers

' A Seaman Cook '

Mixed choice of records. The high spot is March Review Medley, played by the London Palladium Orchestra, conducted by Richard Crean

and his Birmingham Hippodrome Orchestra
Tunes of Today

at the theatre organ

News commentary

from page- 117 of 'New Every Morning' and page 62 of ' Each Returning Day '. From all that" dwell below the skies : Psalm 85 ; Gracious Spirit, Holy Ghost

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

11.0 SINGING TOGETHER, by Herbert Wiseman
The British Grenadiers (English song) Rose among the heather (Schubert) Georgie Porgie (R. R. Terry )
11.20 FOR UNDER-SEVENS : Let's join in. More ' Easter Animals ' : songs about young animals, simple enough for children to learn during the broadcast
11.40 SCIENCE AND GARDENING : ' Friends and Foes in the Plant World', by H. Alan Peacock
12.0 THE MAKING AND CONTENT OF THE BIBLE : The life and letters of St. Paul : ' The Pastoral Epistles ', by the Rev. H. F. D. Sparks , .University of Durham

Conducted by Gideon Fagan

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

Gramophone programme of some musical oddities

1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland). ' Spring Cleaning', by George and Ann Scott Moncrieff
2.10 Interval music
2.15 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' The Sack of Crowland Abbey'; by Rhoda Power : a story from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle made into a play
2.35 Interval music
2.40 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES. Overture, ' A Midsummer Night's Dream ', by Mendelssohn : illustrated talk by Reginald Jacques

Harold Collins and his Orchestra

on- records

Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult. Eric Hope (piano)

Rhai o broblemau amaethu ucheldiroedd Cymru : Alun Roberts , Moses Griffith , a Pierce Owen. (Farming discussion in Welsh)

5.20 Story for the youngest listeners : ' Angus and the Green Glass Bowl', by Marion Lochhead , told by Kathleen
' Music at Random', by Helen Henschel : No. 4-' The Sense and the Sound ', with illustrations by the Kirkintilloch Children's Choir
5.45 The Zoo Man

National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary

Choral Suite by E. J. Moeran , sung by the Huddersfield Glee and Madrigal Society : conductor, Harold Sykes. Narrator, Lewis Stringer
Madrigal : Phyllida and Corydon
Madrigal : Beauty sat bathing by a spring Pastoral : On a hill there growl a flower Air : Phyllis inamorata
Ballet : Said I that
Amaryllis Canzon 'et : The treasure of my heart Air : While she lies sleeping Pastoral : Corydon, arise 1

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

' Leisure ' (i). Discussion in which the speakers are Jack Longland , Director of Education for Dorset ; Margery Pollard , a girls' club organiser ; and Tom Harrisson , of ' Mass Observation '. They ask whether we are satisfied with the use we, as a society, make of our leisure time, and discuss the relation of education to leisure

with Ivy St. Helier; Donald Peers; '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', introduced by C. Denier Warren as 'The Grand Inquisitor', and presented by Leonard Urry; 'Year by Year'. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell

Talk by Mary Ferguson

Radio adaptation by Jan Outers and Leonard Cottrell of the film written, produced, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Produced by Leonard Cottrell
The film from which this. adaptation was made tells how the crew of a Wellington bomber had to bale out over Holland after a successful raid on Germany, and how, with the help of staunch Dutch patriots, they were smuggled to the coast in disguise and eventually reached Britain again.

Sidelight on detective fiction, with dramatised excerpts, presented by Ernest Dudley

Conductor, George Thompson

Quartet in A minor. Op. 29
Quartet movement in C minor played by the Blech String Quartet

' Prothalamion ', by Edmund Spenser. Presented by Edward Sackville-West '

and her Girls Band