and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Conducted by James Oliver. (Gramophone records)
Exercises for men: J. D. Elder
7.40 Exercises for women: May Brown
At the pianos, Lena Blackman and Andrew Bryson.
Music by Lully and Rameau
Rev. Canon C.W. Hutchinson
Programme Parade
' The Radio Doctor '
on gramophone records
Conductor, Charles E. Smith
Anne Shelton with Robin Richmond
Topical magazine programme
News commentary
from page 81 of New Every Morning and page 42 of ' Each Returning Day '. Paraphrase 54 Psalm 1 ; Jesus calls us
Band of the South Wales Borderers, 24th .,Regiment, conducted by Mr. S. V. Hays
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
and his Band
133rd in the Northern series of concerts by war-workers during their lunch-hour break. Arranged and presented by Victor Smythe
Joan and Valerie Trimble (two pianos), and Muriel Gale (contralto)
1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Exploring our village. _' At the Women's Institute', by Edith Mac queen : women's work now and in the past, at home, in the fields, in factories
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE : 'Michael Faraday and the First Dynamo', by Dorothy M. Turner
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. Mowtan, the Tartar, and the Princess ' : Chinese programme arranged by Rhoda Power
Talk by two masters in Scottish schools.
Messages for British children now living in South Africa, arranged in collaboration with the South African Broadcasting Corporation
Conductor, Charles Shadwell , with Sibylle Jason
on gramophone records
Nocturnes for Orchestra : Nuages ; Fêtes;
Sirenes (Debussy) : Symphony Orchestra and Colonne Choir, conducted by Piero Coppola
Nocturne : Paris, The Song of a Great
City (Delius) : London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
News in Welsh
Hanes Ffair Ffigys Llangyfelach gan William Thomas
(Talk in Welsh)
5.20 Concert for children by the BBC Scottish Orchestra (conductor, Ian Whyte ), and Janette Sclanders (soprano). Programme includes Children's Games (Bizet) and Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream : Mendelssohn)
5.50 ' Letters in the Sand', by K Laurens Sargent
No. 1— 'Aleph the Ox'
National and Regional announcements
Kay Cavendish with her piano
First instalment of a serial-reading from R. L. Stevenson ' 's story, read by Felix Aylmer
The survivors from the brig ' Flying Scud wrecked on Midway Island, arrive one day in San Francisco. Loudon Dodd, going to buy the wreck at an auction-as he thinks-for a song, is run up to 50,000 dollars by Bellairs, a shady lawyer. (But who is behind Bellairs ?) To deepen the mystery, the survivors of the ' Flying Scud ' quit San Francisco after the auction -in a hurry. Dodd sets off in the schooner Norah Creina ' to investigate the wreck and, after a stormy voyage, reaches Midway Island. The wreck of the ' Flying
Scud ' is still there. But what will he find on her ? '
Arthur Copley (baritone) ; Richard Adeney (flute) ; Leon Goossens (oboe) ; Jean Pougnet (violin) ; Harriet Cohen (piano). London Philharmonic Orchestra (leader, Jean Pougnet ), conducted by Sir Henry Wood . From the Royal Albert Hall, London
Black-faced minstrel show, devised and produced by Harry S. Pepper. Cast includes Scott and Whaley, Ike Hatch, C. Denier Warren, Fred Yule, the Kentucky Minstrel Banjo Team : Dick Pepper, Edward Fairs, and Bernard Sheaff.
BBC Variety Orchestra and Male Voice Chorus, conducted by Leslie Woodgate. Book written and remembered by C. Denier Warren. Music arranged by Doris Arnold.
Weekly programme in which you are shown the working of war-time broadcasting.
Play for Midsummer Eve by Olga Katzin, with a foreword by Geoffrey Whitworth.
Olive Bloom (piano) and Jan van der Gucht (tenor)
Ie 'Catriona NicTlleathain , Eilidh NicTlle-mhaoil , lain B. Mac-an rothaich agus Fionnghal Nic'Illebhride (ban-fhidhleir). (Gaelic concert)
Contemporary poets : Two poems by Richard Spender (killed in action, March 1943), read by David Lloyd-James. Presented by Edward Sackville-West.
and her Girls Band
(Until 0.20)