and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Excerpts from ' Rosamunde ' on gramophone records

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

Spanish orchestral music

Rev. Nevile Davidson

Programme Parade

' Men in the Kitchen ', introduced by Freddy Grisewood

from a selection of records

Conductor, Rae Jenkins , with Geoffrey Dams (tenor)

at the theatre organ

News commentary

from page 65 of "New Every Morning", and page 56 of "Each Returning Day". The head that once was crown'd with thorns; Psalm 40, vv. 1-12; O thou who comest

Scottish Variety Orchestra : conductor, Ronnie Munro

11.0 RHYTHM AND MELODY : Phrases beginning on weak beats (revision)
11.20 GEOGRAPHY. Regions and peoples of the Soviet Union. ' The Volga Lands ' : collective farms and factories along Russia's greatest waterway; plans for irrigation and electric power
11.40 ENGLISH FOR UHDER-NINES. ' The Wise Men of Gotham ' : action story preceded by some poems about big animals

sung by Nellie and Violet Carson. Accompanist, Cuthbert Kelly

Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain

and his Orchestra, with Beryl Davis , Len Camber , Derek Roy , Doreen Villiers , Johnnie Green , the Singing Sweethearts, Three Boys and a Girl

2.0 NATURE STUDY : ' Ants ', by J. M. Cowan : the life of an ant community, queens and workers
2.15 Interval music
2.20 i YSGOLION CYMRU (For Welsh schools). 'Y Pentref': 4—'Cynhyrchu Ilaeth a'i ddosbarthu '
2.40 SENIOR HISTORY. South Africa : ' Competition for Land between Europeans and Kaffirs ', by ,Mona Macmillan

- Harry Fryer and his Orchestra

played by the BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas

at the theatre organ, plays popular hits of yesterday

Frank Swinnerton talks again on new and recent books

Record programme of top-line artists, written by J. B. Hoskisson

(Studio Service in Welsh). Cymerir y Gweddiau o'r llyfr ' Bob Bore o Newydd ' .

' Jonathan Church ' : serial play in six episodes by L. du Garde Peach , being the surprising adventures of a boy who did sail with Henry Morgan on the Spanish Main. Produced by Derek McCulloch. Episode 3-' The Sacking of Porto Bello '
Saliors, pirates, etc., played by Edgar Norfolk , Carl Bernard , and Ralph de Rohan

followed by National and Regional announcements

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

by Gilbert Hackforth-Jones . An experimental programme, which aims at showing the thoughts, rather than the actual spoken words, of the personnel of a battleship as she races into action. Produced by Peter Watts.

entertains the Forces : third of a series of concerts in collaboration with ENSA. From a garrison theatre in the south of' England. Eileen Joyce (piano). Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult

Christians meet to answer listeners' questions

with Jack Train ; and Sydney Keith , Fred Yule , Dino Galvani , Horace Percival , Bill Stephens , Dorothy Summers , Vera Lennox , Paula Green , Peter Akister , and the Jazz Ticulators. Script by Ted Kavanagh. BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Francis Worsley

Weekly programme telling in dramatic form stories from the week's news. Edited by Gordon Boshell and Ronald Collier , with music under the direction of George Walter. Produced by Leonard Cottrell

Address by the Rev. J. C. Rendall

Weekly sidelight on detective fiction with dramatised excerpts, presented by Ernest Dudley

Conducted by Harold Lowe

and his Orchestra, with Edna Kaye. From the Savoy Hotel, London