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, Andrew Bryson and Barbara Laing.
Danish music
Short morning prayers
' The Radio Doctor'
on gramophone records
and his Versatile Five
Vera Lynn
Topical magazine programmes
News commentary
from page 69 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 30 of ' Each Returning Day '. Come, gracious Spirit ; Psalm 118, TT. 5-18 ; He wants not friends that hath thy love
Cory Brothers' Workmen's Silver Band, conducted by Reg Little
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
Conducted by Reginald Redman
132nd 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.
Tunes from the Great White Way, on gramophone records
1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Exploring our village. ' Going Fishing ', by Edith Macqueen : common freshwater fish ; different ways of fishing
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE: 'Animal Plagues ', by Cyril Bibby
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH : 'The Man and the Statue' : a strange story of ancient Rome, adapted for broadcasting by Julia Goodey
Billy Mayerl and his Band
Conducted by Harold Lowe
Talk by S. H. Kirby
Viola Sonata played by Watson Forbes (viola), and Denise Lassimonne (piano). (In honour of Sir John McEwen 's 75th birthday)
A feddylioch chwi erioed faint o wirionedd sydd yn rhai o'r hen ddiarhebion Cymreig ? Cewch hanes rhai ohonynt gan Hugh Morris Jones. (Talk in Welsh)
5.20 'The Ribchester Helmet', by Kathleen Fidler. Produced by Nan Macdonald
Ribchester, near Blackburn in Lancashire, was at one time the site of a Roman camp where many interesting treasures have been found. This play shows how the famous Ribchester helmet, now in the British Museum, was found by a schoolboy in 1796.
5.55 Children's Hour prayers
National and Regional announcements
and her Girls Band
Piano Sonata in. F minor, Op. 57
(Appassionata) played by Frank Merrick
The fight to secure ' Freedom from Fear' for the natives 'of Africa. Written by Elspeth Huxley and Edward Livesey. Produced by Francis Dillon
THE RIBCHESTER HELMET
You can hear about this famous relic of the Roman occupation of Britain, which is now in the British Museum, in the Children's Hour today.
born, June 15, 1843
Incidental music to Ibsen's drama, Peer Gynt. Elsie Suddaby (soprano) J George Pizzey (baritone) ; BBC Orchestra: conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
The third programme celebrating the centenary of Grieg's birth will be broadcast from the Promenade Concerts on Tuesday, June 22, at 7.15 p.m. in the Forces programme.
Weekly programme in which listeners are shown the working of war-time broadcasting. Presented by Kenneth Adam and Leslie Stokes. No. 5-' John Watt puts on a show '
The Old Vic Company in 'The Russians ', a new play by Konstantin Simonov , adapted by Tyrone Guthrie from the translation by Gerard Shelley , now running af the Play-house under the .direction of Tyrone -Guthrie, with Franklin Dyall , Michael Golden , Arthur Hamblin , Russell Thorndike , Olga Lindo , Freida Jackson , Rosalind Atkinson , Ruth Dunning , and other- member* of the Old Vic Company. Radio adaptation and production by Mary Hope Allen. The action of the play takes place on the Southern Front in Russia in the autumn of 1941.
Quartet in B flat, Op. 71, No. 1 played b:- the Pro Arte String Quartet. (Gramophone records)
de chlair a ghabhadh aig Mod Ghlaschu.
An extract from ' Marlborough', by Winston S. Churchill. Presented by Edward Sackville-West
and his Band, with Marjorie Kingsley and Renee Lester
