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

' The Radio Doctor '

on gramophone records

Under the direction of Michael Spivakowsky
From the Continental Restaurant, Bournemouth

Carroll Gibbons

Topical magazine programme

News commentary

from page 81 of "New Every Morning" and page 42 of "Each Returning Day". Stand up and bless the Lord; Psalm 72, vv. 1-8, 17-19; Soldiers of the Cross

Rhythmic records

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS : Ann Driver
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS : experts, introduced by Evelyn Gibbs , discuss important happenings in the world today
11.40 Interval music
11.45 GAMES WITH WORDS

these gramophone records
Romeo's Reverie and Fete at the Capulets
(Romeo and Juliet : Berlioz) : London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty
Symphony on a French Mountaineer's Song
(Vincent d'Indy) : Marguerite Long (piano) and the Colonne Symphony Orchestra of Paris, conducted by Paul Paray

128th in the Northern series of concerts by war .workers during their lunch-hour break. Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe

Plotside broadcasts from a BBC allotment cultivated by the Outsifie Broadcasting Department. Commentator, Michael Standing. 'Adviser, Thomas Hay. From a London residential square

Conducted by Mr. D. J. Plater
Regimental March : My Boy Willie

1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Exploring our village. ' Roads and Byroads ' : by Edith Macqueen
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE. Material for the home: The Story of Glass ', by Joseph Lauwerys
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. The Canterbury Tales ', a series of three dramatisations : Part 1—'The Prologue '

Falkman and his Apache Band

Radio comedy by E. Eynon Evans , adapted from a Welsh story by W. J. Griffith. Produced by T. Rowland Hughes

Conducted by Julius Harrison

3-' Pa beth yw dyn ... ' : sgwrs ar ddatblygiad dyn gan y Dr. Elwyn Davies. (Talk in Welsh)

5.20 Massed Children's Choirs : part of a concert given during the first Watford Musical Festival. Conductor, Leslie Regan
Talk about our birds, by the Zoo
Man
5.55 Children's Hour prayers

National and Regional announcements

Mr. Chickery tells another of his stories from Studio Five

with the Bachelor Girls, Peter Akister , and George Elliott. Presented by James Moody

(Leader, Paul Beard ). BBC.Women's Chorus (chorus-master, Leslie Wood gate) : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
7.0 God Save the King
Busoni had all the true artist's reverence for the music of an older day, and Mozart was one to whom he looked up with sincere admiration. A Comedy Overture, composed first in 1897, and drastically revised in 1904, has something of Mozart's own comedy spirit in its straightforward lines, something of Mozart's conciseness in its shapely design. It is laid out for a modest orchestra, with no trombones
7.51 -Interval
8.S The, Planets : 1 Mars, the bringer of war ; 2 Venus, the bringer of peace ; 3 Mercury, the winged messenger ; 4 Jupiter, the bringer of jollity ; 5 Saturn, the bringer of old age ; 6 Uranus, the magician ; 7 Neptune, the mystic.... Hoist
From the Royal Albert Hall , London

Weekly programme in which listeners are shown the working of war-time broadcasting. Presented by Kenneth Adam and Leslie Stokes
No. 2—' Reading the News'

The Old Vic Company in ' Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater , now running at the Playhouse, London, under the direction of Tyrone Guthrie.
Herbert Lomas as Abraham Lincoln , with Tristan Rawson , Russell Thorndike, Rosalind Atkinson , Kathleen Boutall , Harcourt Williams (by permission of Linnit and Dunfee Ltd.), James Harcourt and other members of the company.
The action of the play ranges from early in 1860 to April 14, 1865. Broadcast by permission of the Governors of the Old Vic, in association with CEMA. Produced by Mary Hope Allen.

featuring Billy Mayerl , Greta Keller , and dancing to Ambrose and his Orchestra

Cuirm-chiuil de na h-orafn a dh' iarradh. Leis an luchd-eisdeachd. (Gaelic concert)

Contemporary poets : Poems by Robert Gittings , Sara Jackson , and Joan Murray Simpson. Presented by Edward Sackville-West

with his Orchestra

Directed by Albert Sandier