and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Selection, played by the Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, conducted by Capt. R. G. Evans. (Gramophone records)
Exercises for men : J. D. Elder
7.40 Exercises for women : May Brown
At the pianos, Andrew Bryson and Barbara Laing.
Operatic preludes
Special Holy Week readings from the Gospels, by Felix Aylmer
Mrs. Mary Stevens : ' Easter Buns '
Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Alia siciliana, from Handel's Firework Music, played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty
and his Orchestra
A New Zealander looks at Britain : talk by D. Fraser Brown
at the organ of the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle
' The Glorious Cross '
for Monday in Holy Week
There is a green hill ; Psalm 51, vv. 1-3 and 10-17 ; Take up thy cross
Rhythmic records
and his Correct Tempo Ballroom Band
BBC Singers : conductor, Leslie Woodgate
(All edited by E. H. Fellowes )
at the theatre organ
these gramophone records
Sonatina. Op. 100, for violin and piano
(Dvorak) : Frederick Grinke (violin), Kendall Taylor (piano)
Duets for Children (Walton) : Ilona Kabos and Louis Kentner (piano)
ENSA concert for war-workers from a factory canteen. Jack Leon and his Dance Orchestra, with Gloria and Alan Kane. Guest artists, Billy Milton , and Tova Firon
followed by a recording of last night's postscript
Conducted by Julius Harrison
. Talk by Richard Hughes
' with Helen Hill
Billy Tement and the Dance Orchestra
Presented with gramophone records by Stephen Williams
Tunes from the Great White Way on gramophone records
played by the BBC Scottish Orchestra : conductor, Guy Warrack
Rhagor o broblemau amaethu ucheldiroedd Cymru : Alun Robens , Moses Griffith , Pierce Owen. (Talk in Welsh)
5.20 Another story from' Bitty and the Bears', by Elizabeth Gorrell
' Music at Random', by Helen Henschel : Mozart, the Boy Who Made Music'
5.45 The Zoo Man
National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult. Margaret Good (piano)
Taken from the novel by Anthony Trollope ; by H. Oldfield Box. Produced by Howard Rose. Episode 2
Opening talk : ' What is Peligion ? ' by Professor H. A. Hodges of Reading University. He discusses the question with Sir Frederick Whyte
played by Geraldo and his Orchestra. The old favourites of twentieth-century dance music were new before they were swung. Geraldo presents tunes of popular composers as they would be played if they had been published in 1943. Devised and introduced by Spike Hughes
or ' Monday at Mulligan's'. Script by Harry O'Donovan. Produced by Eric Fawcett and Nora Finn and Sean Ryan
Revue Chorus and the BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas
Talk by Mary Ferguson
'The King's Supper': ninth of a play sequence on the life of Our Lord, specially written for broadcasting by Dorothy L. Sayers. Produced by Val Gielgud. (BBC recording)
played by the Griller Quartet, with Pauline Juler (clarinet), Cecil James (bassoon), Dennis Brain (horn), and James Merrett Junr. (double bass)
Poems by John Donne and Coventry Patmore. Presented by Edward SackvilIe-West.
Famous bands playing popular dance tunes, on gramophone records
played by Irene Kohler (piano)