and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Messager's ballet suite, played by the Garde Republicaine Band, conducted by Pierre Dupont. (Gramophone records)

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

American piano music

Short morning prayers

Talk by Hilda Whitlow

on gramophone records

at the organ of the Odeon, Leicester Square

Talk by Philip Gibbons

Introductory music Prayer
Christ, whose glory fills the skies (A. and M. 7; S.P. 26; C.H. 261: Tune, Ratisbon)
Interlude
Prayers: Prayer of St. Richard; the Lord's Prayer
When I survey the wondrous Cross (A. and M. 108, omitting v. 5; S.P. 133, omitting v. 4; C.H. 106: Tune, Rockingham)
Blessing
Closing music

News commentary

from page 73 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 64 of ' Each Returning Day '. Lo, God is here; Psalm 57; To thee, our God, we fly

Joseph Hislop (tenor), on gramophone records

'The Housewife in War-Time', by Ruth Drew
' A few drops of oil can save pounds ', by Sara Fennell

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR .INFANTS : Ann Driver
11.20 HOW THINGS BEGAN. 'Learning to Write', by Rhoda Power : why writing began; writing materials of the ancient East ; different kinds of writing
11.40 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH, by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Andree Duranton. ' 'Joli Tambour ' : dramatization de la scene entre la fille du roi et Ie joli tambour, d'apres la celebre chanson

is two years old today and, with an all-star cast (see article on front page), Bill Gates introduces the first programme in its third year. This broadcast is, as usual, relayed from a factory somewhere in Britain.

Talk on Japanese youth, by a former professor of a Japanese University

A biography of the world's most popular musical instrument, told with gramophone records by Maurice Jacobson

2.0 The Music Shop
Devised by John Horton: 'Movement in Music'

2.20 Physical Training
(for use in classrooms)
by Coleman Smith

2.35 Senior English II: Good Writing
Book talk by Elizabeth Jenkin: 'The Old Curiosity Shop' by Charles Dickens

Rhythmic records

from the chapel of New College, Oxford
Versicles and Responses
Psalm 8
First Lesson : 1 Kings 8 w. 22-30
Magnificat (Byrd, Short Service)
Second Lesson : St. James 5, vv. 7-18 Nunc dimittis (Byrd, Short Service) Creed and Collects
King of glory (W. H. Harris ) . Prayers
Judge eternal (E.H. 423) Organist, H. K. Andrews

Conducted by Julius Harrison

"The Bad Sailor', by Eric Allen , read by Joy Worth .

(Welsh Children's Hour)
Mae prinder papur yn dod a son am lechi yn 61 i'r ysgolion. Heddiw cewch hanes llechan a phensal llechan o'r chwarel i'r ysgol. Y rhaglen gan Marjorie Wynn-Williams

' Out with Romany ' : adventures among birds and animals

National and Regional announcements

War-time fairy-story with lots of morals; written by Henrik Ege; music by Henry Reed.
Frederick Burt well as Mr. Cropper, Billie Sinclair as Mrs. Cropper, Wynne Ajello as Conscience, Eliot Makeham as 'The Man Next Door'. The 'Still Small Voices': the Bachelor Girls. BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Henry Reed

Jeux d'eau
Prelude : Toccata (Le Tombeau de Couperin) played by Phyllis Sellick (piano) Phyllis Se!lick could play the piano by ear at the very early age of three, and* she had her first piano lesson on her fifth birthday. Among many scholarships she won the Elizabeth Stokes open scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, and when only sixteen, a scholarship to the American Conservatoire in Fontainebleau.

de cheol togarrach is orain Ghaidhlig bho chomhlan ciuil Uilleam Young , Ina Nic 'lll-fhaolain, Mairi I. Nic -Naomhain, agus Donnchadh Mac'Illfhaolain. (Gaelic concert)

and her Girls Band