and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Conducted by W. Haydock. (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

' The Radio Doctor '

on gramophone records

and his Orchestra

Evelyn Laye

Topical magazine programme

- News commentary

from page 1 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 6 of ' Eack Returning Day '. Before Jehovah's awful throne; Psalm 47 ; God of mercy

Leonard's Orchestra, under the direction of Michael Spivakowsky. From the Continental Restaurant, Bournemouth

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

Conductor, Guy Warrack North, South, East, and West

130th 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 Outside Broadcasting Department. Commentator, Michael Standing. Adviser, Thomas Hay. From a London residential square.

Today's Variety on records

1.50 EXPLORING OUR VILLAGES. 'The Bees Have Swarmed', by Edith Macqueen : story of a hive of bees ; queens, drones, workers ; the honey flow ; catching a swarm
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE. Materials for the home : ' How Fibres Behave ', by Joseph Lauwerys
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. ' The Canterbury Tales' : Part 3-The Pilgrims continue on their way, and hear the Cook's Tale

Carroll Gibbons and his Orchestra

Conducted by Julius Harrison
Overture

These programmes bring before you month by month the changing facets of the rural scene. Countrymen and women are brought to the microphone to speak about their lives and work.

played by Joan Trimble and Valerie Trimble

Myfyrdod ar rai o rinweddau a diffygion perthnasau, gan Islwyn Williams. (Talk in Welsh)

5.20 ' Would you believe it ? ' : strange stories, interesting facts and out-of-the-ordinary music, designed for your entertainment by Dorothy Worsley
5.55 Children's Hour prayers

National and Regional announcements

Mr. Chickery tells another of his stories from Studio Five

Gramophone guessing game, arranged and presented by Charles Maxwell

(Leader, Paul Beard ). Isobel Baillie , Gladys Ripley , Parry Jones , Norman Walker. BBC Choral Society (chorus-master, Leslie Woodgate ). Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult 7.37 Interval
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. 3-' Radio correspondents and speakers in the News '

Dramatised account of an offensive patrol with the Light Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy. Written and produced by Maurice Brown

Paula Green takes the air in song, accompanied by the BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell.

10.30 ' North of the Tweed ' : George Blake reviews the month in Scotland
10.45 Scottish dance music, played by the Strings of the BBC Scottish Orchestra : conductor, Ian Whyte

Poems by A. E. Housman , presented by Edward Sackville-West

played by Maurice Vinden
From St. Mark's, North Audley Street
In the spring of this year Maurice Vinden completed a quarter of a century as organist and choirmaster at St. Mark's, North Audley Street, from where he has given innumerable broadcasts. He studied at the Royal College of Music under Sir Walter Parratt. Sir Frederick Bridge, and Dr. Charles Wood, and was also for a time a pupil of John Ireland, whose Piano Sonata is being broadcast on Thursday. In addition to his work at St. Mark's, Vinden has had a wide experience in the concert world. He has broadcast on the BBC concert organ, from St. Margaret's, Westminster, and from St. Edmund's, Lombard Street. He has been conductor of the London Male Voice Choir since 1925.

and his Band, with Renee Lester and Marjorie Kingsley