and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

on gramophone records

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

Music by Norwegian composers

Short morning prayers

' Your Ration Book '

Mixed choice of records. The high-spot is Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite de Concert, played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent

and his Sextet

' The Duchess', by Eric Moore Ritchie, read by Patric Curwen.

at the organ of the Trocadero, Elephant and Castle

News commentary

from page 61 of New Every Morning and page 38 of ' Each Returning Day
To Christ, the prince of peace ; Psalm 16 ; Help us to help each other

BBC Midland Light Orchestra : conductor, Rae Jenkins

11.0 SINGING TOGETHER :
Glad hearts adventuring (Martin Shaw) Dream Angus (Scots song)
When shall we be married, John ?
(English song)
11.20 FOR UNDER-SEVENS : Let's join in—‘ You Tell Me ', and some well-known nursery rhymes
11.40 SCIENCE AND GARDENING. ' Elbow Room for Plants', by H. Alan Peacock
12.0 THE MAKING AND CONTENT OF THE BIBLE. The later New Testament period : ' The Epistle of St. James ', by the Rev. C. W. Dugmore ; Chaplain of Alleyn's College of God's Gift, Dulwich

Conducted by Julius Harrison

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

played by Audrey Piggott and Dorothea Aspinall

1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland). ' The Gas-Works ', by George and Ann Scott Moncrieff
2.10. Interval music
2.15 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY : ' Marco Polo , Medieval Traveller by Rhoda Power
2.35 Interval music
2.40 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT FOR SCHOOLS. BBC Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Programmme presented by Herbert Howells

at the organ of the Granada, Clapham Junction

- Conducted by Clarence Raybould
Leonard Hirsch (violin)

Talk by Professor W. T. Gordon

Song of Maytime, sung by the BBC Singers : conductor, Leslie Wood gate

Ymgom rhwng Bob Owen ac E. Morgan Humphreys. (Discussion in Welsh)

Story for the youngest listeners, ' The Elephant's Birthday Party' : West African folk tale by D. MacFarlan
'Little song and piano recital ' :
No. 2 —‘ The Music of Norway’, with Ireen McLaren (piano) and Janette Sclanders (soprano)
' Night Photography : how the Air
Force gets its pictures' : talk by Scott Kennedy

National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary

Conductor, Harry Mortimer

taken from the novel by Anthony Trollope , by H. Oldfield Box. Produced by Howard Rose. Episode 6

Buddhism : Dr. M. D. Ratnasuriya of the School of Oriental Studies, with Sir Frederick Whyte

A fantasy by Lon Shaw , originally produced by the Columbia Workshop. Directed by Gordon Crier , with music arranged and conducted by Phil Cardew
Issy Bonn as Mr. Greenberg and Elinore Farrell as Mrs. Greenberg. Other parts played by Joan Young , Sydney Keith , Tommy Duggan , Peter Madden , Macdonald Parke , Bill Stephens , and Phillip Leaver

or ' Monday at Mulligan's '. Script by Harry O'Donovan and Dick Forbes. Produced by Eric Fawcett
Revue Chorus and the BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas

Talk by Mary Ferguson

Play by Henrik Ibsen , translated from the Norwegian by Eleanor Marx Aveling. Adapted and produced by Barbara Burnham
Scene : Norway, at the end of the last century

and the Twentieth-Century Serenaders

Contemporary poets : Four Sonnets from a sequence by Kenneth Gee. Presented by Edward Sackville-West

and his Band, with Gloria, from the Astoria Dance Salon, London. Guest artists, The Greene Sisters