and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Conducted by Flight-Lieut . J. H. Amers ' .

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
7.40 For women : May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Lena Blackman.

Schumann's piano music

Short morning prayers

' The Food Reporter '

Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Debussy's ' Feux d'artifice ' (Fireworks), played by Phyllis Sellick (piano)

From the Winter Gardens, Malvern

Billy Mayerl ,

at the organ of the Granada, Harrow

How a woman journalist gets her ' stories ' : talk by Mary Dean

from page 61 of New Every Morning ' and page 38 of ' Each Returning Day Jesu, thy mercies are untold ; Psalm 16 ; Help us to help each other, Lord

Debroy Somers and his Band

on gramophone records
Overture : If I were King (Adam) : Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Bigot
Andante cantabile (Tchaikovsky) :
Leslie Heward 's String Orchestra
Selection of Brahms's Waltzes : Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Walter Goehr
Carnival of the Animals (Saint-Saens) :
Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Stokowski

Conductor, Mr. C. F. Harriott

sung by Kenneth Ellis (bass)

ENSA concert for war-workers from a factory canteen. Lou Preager and his Correct Tempo Ballroom Band, with Edna Kaye. Guest artists, George Robey , and Ted Andrews and Barbara

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

plays British organ music
From St. Michael's, Comhilp
This is Dr. Harold Darke 's 1,000th recital from this church.

Led by Albert Sandier , with Eugenie Safonova

Today's Variety on records

Harold Collins and his Orchestra

Contrasting American sweet and swing dance bands : gramophone programme written by Geoffrey S. Pearce

Conducted by Richard Austin. (ENSA Music Adviser, Northern
» Command)

Stori-radio gan Alwyn Thomas yn cael ei dweud gan Ednyfed Curig Davies. (Talk in Welsh)

'Ten Minutes Each'
'Home for the Holidays': some unusual holiday fare
Songs by the Bristol Children's Concert Society
'Pencil and Paper': puzzles, questions and catches by P. Caton-Baddeley
'Mobile X-Ray'. Derek McCulloch, Children's Hour Director, hands over the Children's Hour Mobile X-Ray Unit, constructed at a cost of over £3,000
Sir Ernest M. Clarke, Chairman, Home Service Ambulance Committee, Joint Council of the Order of St. John and the British Red Cross Society, will receive the gift and an additional speaker will be H.T. Ferrier, F.S.R., F.R.P.S., who has been mainly responsible for. directing and supervising the technical construction of the X-Ray Unit. A formal dedication will precede the actual handing over of the Unit, and the whole ceremony is to be broadcast from a garden in a London square. The money is part of the £15,000 which was sent to 'Mac' when he appealed for £1,500 some while ago.

National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary

Music played by Bradford Victoria Boys' Band (conductor, T. F. Atkin son) and the Band of the Tiffin Boys' School, Kingston-on -Thames (conductor, G. W. Spriggs ). Presented by Harry Mortimer

The BBC presents Sir Henry Wood 's
49th season. Associate conductor, Sir Adrian Boult. BBC Symphony ! Orchestra (leader, 'Paul Beard ). Eda Kersey (violin). Thelma Reiss (cello)
Brahms
Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Concerto in A minor, for violin, cello, and orchestra .
Symphony No. 4, in E minor
From the Royal Albert Hall , London

His life and work. Compiled (with the co-operation of his widow and publisher) by Loftus Wigram. Produced by Henry Reed

The producer has supplied the following information, which the Editor hopes will be found profitable: Gustavus Heck carved for himself, during the short time he lived, an outstanding niche in the Halls of Fame. In spite of this, little is known about his early life and struggles; the recent unearthing of his correspondence with the notorious Ariadne Pirbgsht has cast a new and unexpected light on this bizarre genius. The fact that Heck composed solely with his feet made him as a matter of course somewhat temperamental, but through all his vagaries the soul of a sincere and brilliantly creative artist shone, so as to illuminate not only his work but also all those with whom he came in touch.

J. B. Priestley

by Thomas Hardy , adapted for broadcasting by Sybil Clarke. Produced by Hugh Stewart

played by Cyril Smith (piano)

"Simaetha" from the Second Idyll of Theocritus, translated by Jack Lindsay, read by Evelyn Allen.

and her Girls Band