and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

(Woolwich)
Conducted by Capt. 0. W. Geary. (Gramophone records)

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 For women : May Brown
At the pianos, Andrew Bryson and Lena Blackman.

from Russian operas

Rt. Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield

Programme Parade

' A Submarine Cook '

Record programme of tunes and songs from the year 1940. Written and arranged by Roy Plomley

(Chatham Division)
Conducted by Lieut. Thomas Francis , Director of Music, Royal Marines
Regimental March of the Royal Marines

at the organ of the Granada, Tooting

at the piano, with his Quintet

from page 97 of ' New Every Morning' and page 36 of ' Each Returning Day '. Come down, 0 love divine ; Psalm 15; When God of 'old came down

Dudley Hippodrome Orchestra : conductor, Harry Pell

Tunes that live- for ever, on records

Conductor, Guy Warrack

War-workers entertain their colleagues during the lunch, hour at a West of England factory. Presented by Hamilton Kennedy. (BBC recording)

' Bee-Keeping ' : a seasonable talk by Reginald Gamble and T. W. Wilbraham
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and her Girls Band

Personal reminiscences of the Variety stage. Record programme presented by Reg. Holmes

Concert in aid of Prisoners of War. BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard ), conducted by Sir Henry Wood , with Eva Turner (soprano) and Solomon (piano)
3.30-app. Interval
From the Royal Albert Hall, London
During the interval Lee Lian-Chye talks about the Chinese view of opera, with special reference to Puccini's ' Turandot'

The ever-changing moods of the English countryside, with music and songs on records. No. 11-' Bedford-shire', written by Denis Preston , and produced by Charles Maxwell and Frederick Piffard

Sgwrs gan Emlyn Evans.
(A talk in Welsh)

Play : ' Nicht-nocht-Naething ', by Ida Rowe

National andRegibnal announcements

Douglas Houghton discusses the many official forms and regulations with which everyone has to deal nowadays

at the theatre organ

A little play about an old singing master and a young Polish girl in Warsaw. Written by Natala Korel. Produced by Walter Rilla played by Shelagh Fraser

by the Hon. Quintin Hogg , M.P.

Conducted by Flying Officer Martin Boundy

plays
Brahms variations on a theme of Handel for piano

Raymond Gram Swing

The- Brass Bottle'
Novel by F. Anstey , dramatised for broadcasting by Peggy Wells and the producer, Moultrie R. Kelsall
Other parts played by Jack Livesey , John Miller , and Jill Nyasa

Shortened form of Evensong

Charles Maxwell presents, with the aid of gramophone records, an all-star cabaret show, including Carroll Gibbons , Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch , and ' Hutch', with dancing to Geraldo and his Orchestra

and his Concert Orchestra