for Good Friday

and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Excerpts on 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

' Try Something New ', by a Czech housewife

Popular dance music and songs on gramophone records

at the organ of the Qdeon, Leicester Square

played by Olive Bloom

played by George Steele and his Birmingham Hippodrome- Orchestra

'The Glorious Cross'

Litany (Tallis Five-Part)
It is a thing most wonderful (E.H. 597 ;
C.H. 436)
Ante Communion (Merbecke)
Commandments Collects
Epistle : Hebrews lO vv. 1-25
0 sacred head, sore wounded (S.P. 128 ;
C.H. 107)
Gospel: St. John 19, vv. 1.30 Creed
The Intercession
My song is love unknown (S.P. 127) Collect Blessing

On gramophone records
Symphony in D (Classical) Op. 25 : The
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos
Ballet Suite, Le Pas d'Acier : London
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates

Tunes that live for ever, on records

Music for two pianos, played by Cyril Smith and Phyllis Sellick

ENSA concert for war-workers from a factory canteen. Band of the South Staffordshire Regiment, under the direction of Bandmaster M. E. Thatcher (by permission of the Officer Commanding). Guest attists, Michael Howard (by arrangement with the Windmill Theatre), and Catja Eric

Week-end notes for women gardeners by Anna Scarlett and Elizabeth Cowell

Conductor, Ian Whyte
Symphony No. 83, in G minor (The Hen)
Haydn Suite of Ancient Airs and Dances Respighi

Conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury

Words by Cardinal Newman
Janet Howe (mezzo-soprano) ; Parry Jones (tenor) ; Dennis Noble (baritone). Luton Choral Society (conductor, Arthur E. Davies ). BBC Chorus. BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood
3.0 Part I
3.42 p.m. (app.) Interval
3.55 Part 2

Ymddiddan gan y Gwir Barchedig Esgob Llanelwy. (Welsh talk for Good Friday)

'Letter from America', by Olive Shapley
(recording)

5.30 'On a Far Green Hill'
Programme of verse and music for Good Friday, chosen by Geoffrey Dearmer. Readers: Hedley Goodall, Cherry Cottrell, Mary Harley. Singers: Trevor Dorey and George Walsh. Incidental music composed and played by Gwenn Knight

National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary

Talk by F. H. Grisewood

Fortnightly talks for Northern Ireland listeners on some of the problems and conditions of living in war-time

Part 6 of a radio version, written by Henrik Ege , of the novel by D. L. Murray. Music composed and selected by Mark H. Lubbock. Orchestra conducted by Percival Mackey. Produced by Reginald Smith
Principal characters in order of speaking
Period : 1895

Conducted by Captain S. Rhodes , Director of Music, Scots Guards

A simple play about France, as she. was, and will be again, when Vichy France and Hitler's France are only memories. Written ..by Veronica Sibthorp. Music arranged by George Walter. Produted by Walter Rilla

Violin Sonata in G, Op. 78 played by Eda Kersey (violin) and Kathleen Long (piano)

' The King of Sorrows ' : eleventh of a play sequence on the life of Our Lord, specially written for broadcasting by Dorothy L. Sayers. Produced by Val Gielgud.

Conductor, George Walter

and postscript

II Penseroso by Milton. Presented by Edward Sackville-West.

sung by Betty Bannerman (mezzo-soprano) and Alfred Hepworth (tenor)

and his Sextet