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
' Food for our Bomber Crews ', by a Catering Officer of the R.A.F.
Gramophone mixture of film music
(Woolwich)
Conducted by Captain 0. W. Geary , M.B.E., Director of Music, Royal Artillery
at the organ of the Ritz Cinema, Belfast
played by the BBC Revue Orchestra, with the Revue Chorus and John Duncan (baritone). ( : previously broadcast on April 3)
from page 21 of New Every Morning and page 48 of ' Each Returning Day '. All as God wills ; Psalm 86, vv. 1-12; Father, who on men dost shower gifts
Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra : conductor, William Pethers. From the New Hippodrome, Coventry
Tunes from the Great White Way on gramophone records
sung and introduced by Jack Collings (Cornish fisherman bass)
Directed by Jack Hardy
Variety concert by war-workers who entertain their colleagues during the lunch-time break in a factory in Scotland. Producer, Howard M. Lockhart
Recorded excerpts from a ' backyard ' Brains Trust held on May 6 at the Dome in Brighton. Donald McCullough was Question-Master, and many well-known experts took part
and his Music, with Jack Cooper
and his Orchestra, with Beryl Davis , Len Camber , Derek Roy , Doreen Villiers , Johnnie Green , the Singing Sweethearts, Three Boys and a Girl
Conductor, Boyd Neel. Kathleen Long (piano) 3.27 app. Interval
The ever-changing moods of the English countryside, with music and songs on records. No. 12-' Dorset written by Stanley Baron , and produced by Frederick Piffard and Charles Maxwell
Ymweliad a melin flawd rywle yng Ngogledd Cymru. CyflwyniF y rhaglen gan Sam Jones.
' Black Magic ' : tale of a midnight escapade, by Myfanwy Haycock
Songs by Vernon Lee
National and Regional announcements
Douglas Houghton discusses the many official forms and regulations with which everyone has to deal
A story of the Battle of Britain, adapted by Esther Terry Wright from her novel 'Pilot's Wife's Tale'.
Air Force personnel, hospital personnel, waitress, warden, lady from fish-and-chip shop, visitors, etc., played by members of the BBC Repertory Company
(The novel is published by John Lane, the Bodley Head)
at the piano
by Wilfred Roberts , M.P.
Conducted by Captain G. H. Willcocks , Director of Music, Irish Guards
Conducted by Maurice Johnstone
Raymond Gram Swing
An Arcadian comedy by L. Allen Harker and F. R. Pryor , adapted for broadcasting and produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall
Scene : A country manse near Edinburgh, and the officers' quarters in Edinburgh Castle, at the time of Queen Victoria's visit in 1842
Evening prayers
' Miss Crane-Driver' : story by James McCormick , read by E. A. Naden.
played by Edward Isaacs
and her Girls Band