and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

and his Octet

Messages recently recorded by members of the Services in Ceylon for their relatives and friends in this country

Band of the 7th Buckinghamshire Battalion, Home Guard, conducted by S. Nesbitt
Regimental March : Ninety-five

played by G. D. Cunningham
From the Town Hall, Birmingham
The third of this series of recitals will be given on Sunjiay, August 29, at 8.40 in the Home Service.

from Crosthwaite Church, Keswick Theme : ' The Challenge of the New Day ' Prayer
Mine eyes have seen the glory (S.P. 578 ;
C.H. 155)
Reading : St. Luke 5, vv. 1-11
Address by the Rev. J. C. Winslow
Dear Lord and Father of mankind (S.P.
481 ; C.H. 245)
Players of Worship, Penitence, and Dedication
Soldiers of Christ, arise (S.P. 641 ; A. and M. 270 ; C.H. 534)
Prayer and Blessing
Organist, H. W. Brown

Preludes (Book 2) played by Kathleen Long (piano), on gramophone records
Brouillards (Mist)
General Lavine ,
Eccentric Habanera : La Puerta del Vino (The Vine-
Gate)
Feux d'artifice (Fireworks)

Harold Collins and his Orchestra

Boyd Neel talks about Dvorak's Cello Concerto, which is to be broadcast next Saturday

Conducted by Howard Barlow , with Lily Pons (soprano), on gramophone records
Overture : Beautiful Galathea (Suppc) Waltz : Paroxysms (Johann Strauss )
Bell Song (Lakme : Delibes) ; Parysates
(Saint-Saëns) ; Vilanelle (Dell' Acqua) : Lily Pons
Grand March and Ballet Music (Aïda :
Verdi)

at the organ of the Regal, Beckehham

Two Brandenburg Concertos, played by Adolph Busch and the Chamber Music Players. (Specially recorded in New York on April 9)
No. 5, in D, for piano, flute, and violin
(Soloists, Rudolph Serkin , John Wummer , and Adolph Busch )
No. 4 in G, for violin, and first and second. flutes
(Soloists, Adolph Busch, and John and Mildred H. Wummer )

and Nina Lenova (soprano)
(All arrangements by Bernard Sheaff )

introduced, with gramophone records, by M. D. Calvocoressi

Percy Izzard

Conductor, Ian Whyte

from the play by Clifford Bax. Produced by Barbara Burnham
Young disciples of Socrates:
(by permission of, H. M. Tennent Ltd.)
Scene : Athens, 399 B.C.

Talk by the Very Rev. W. R. Matthews , K.C.V.O., D.D., Dean of St. Paul's

Rhaglen o ganu emynau gan gapeli unedig- Llanidloes, o dan arweiniad Idris Lewis. Organydd, R. 0. Meredith. (Welsh hymn-singing)

The Children's Hour presents ' The Gentle Sex ', the Two Cities Concanen Film directed by Leslie Howard and produced by Derrick de Marney. With Rosamund John , Barbara Waring , and John Laurie in their original film parts. The commentary by Leslie Howard is recorded from the sound track. Others in the cast are Belle Chrystall, Nancy Npvinson , Vivienne Chatterton , Beryl Laverick , Shelagh Fraser , Gladys Young , Molly Rankin , Valentine Dunn , Carl Bernard , and Lewis Stringer. Radio adaptation by John Keir Cross. Produced by John Keir Cross and Josephine Plummer. Military adviser, Senior Commander Pratt

(Chatham Division)
Conducted by Lieutenant Thomas Francis , Director\ of Music, Royal Marines

Talk by some of the men and women who help to clothe and equip the American fighting forces

Operatic programme, with Lorely Dyer (soprano) and the BBC Theatre Orchestra : conductor, Stanford Robinson. Script written and spoken by Spike Hughes

Conducted by the Rev. W. W. Simpson , Organising Secretary of the Council of Christians and Jews
Psalm .67
. Prayers of Adoration and Approach
Praise to the living God (M.H.B. IS) Lesson,
Come down, 0 love divine (M.H.B. 273 ;
A. and M. 670 ; C.H. 191)
Address
The day thou gavest (M.H.B. 667 ; A. and M. 477 ; C.H. 289)
Prayers and Blessing

Series telling of outstanding British feats of arms in this war. 5-The Army Medical Services. The story is told by Richard Dimbleby

followed by a postscript

Documentary drama in verse and prose, written for radio by Anne Marriott and Margaret Kennedy , with original music by Barbara\Pent-land, played by the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Muir Mathieson. Produced by Laurence Gilliam
The payload is the weight of the commercial load carried by aircraft, and consists of passengers, freight, and mail. Canada leads the world in the amount of freight carried by air. These payloads have been the most important factor in the development of Canada's great North-Western resources of minerals. This programme, first produced in Canada in 1940, tells the story of that development.

' Hallowed be thy name ' (iii). Psalm 29 ;
Genesis 28, vv. 10-22 ;Lo, God is here (A. and M. 526) ; Psalm 99, v. 9

sung by Herbert Heyner (baritone)

Quartet in F played by the Galimar String Quartet, under the direction of the composer. (Gramophone records)