and summary of today's programmes for the Forces
Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
Exercises for women: May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Andrew Bryson.
DVORAK
Every morning this week at this time listeners will hear gramophone records of his' music: today, movements from his Symphonies are played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vaclav Talich
Rev. George Carstairs, D.D.
' The Food Reporter '
Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Stephane Grappelly and Django Rheinhardt 's ' Mystery Pacific played by the Quintet of the Hot Club of France
and his Sextet
Three people from Ulster describe the damage caused by rats, and what they are doing about it
at the theatre organ
News commentary
from page 13 of New Every Morning * and page 26 of 'Each Returning Day'. Most ancient of all mysteries ; Psalm SO, vv. 1-14; Forth in thy name, p Lord
David Java and his Orchestra
11.0 SINGING TOGETHER, by Herbert Wiseman
The Song of the Music-Makers
(Martin Shaw)
Sweet Nightingale (English song) Pat-a-cake (R. R. Terry )
11.18 Interval music
H.20 SCIENCE AND GARDENING : ' The Flower Border', by C. F. Lawrance
11.40 FOR UNDER SEVENS : Let's join in—' Red Riding Hood ' : a radio version of the well-known tale, with music and songs to suit
12.0 THE MAKING AND CONTENT OF
THE BIBLE. The life and teaching of Jesus Christ : Judaism in the Time of Our Lord, by the Rev. C. W. Dugmore
Overture in the Italian Style, in D Symphony No. 2, in B flat played by the BBC Orchestra, conducted by Clarence Raybourti
followed by a recording of last night's postscript
(organ)
From St. Michael's, Cornhill
1.50 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland). ' What happens when ... a fire breaks out ', by George Scott MONCRIEFF
2.10 Interval music
2.15 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY. ' Adventure in Virginia ', by Rhoda Power : the story of Captain John Smith and Pocohontas, daughter of Powhatan, who is said to have saved his life when her father would have slain him
2.35 Interval music
2.40 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES. * The Piper': Herbert Ferrers discusses with Evelyn Gibbs the words and music of his opera, to be heard in the schools programme next Monday. The story is based on a medieval legend familiar to most children through Browning's poem, ' The Pied Piper '
A case for the defence, introduced by Buddy Featherstonhaugh : gramophone programme, written by B. M. Lytton-Edwards
(by permission of the Air Officer
Commanding-in-Chief) : conductor, Mr. John Payne
Conducted by Julius Harrison
2—' Y Tir ' Tair stori fer yn ymwneud a bywyd cefn gwlad. Y cyfarwyddo gan T. Rowland Hughes. (Short stories in Welsh).
' Ten Minutes Each '
' Yes, we have no bananas ! ' Sergeant-Pilot Holland of the Royal Australian Air Force finds a remedy
' My life in Nanking', told by Jean Tsien , an eleven-year-old Chinese girl
"The Welsh Reel' : Folk dances of Wales, played and sung by : Susan Davies (violin), D. G. Collier (cello), Mary Kendall (piano), and Bryn Jones (tenor)
Scottish rhymes for children read by Jean Taylor Smith
' A Topical Feature from the North '
National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary
and the Twentieth-Century Serenaders 0
By Wilkie Collins. Adapted in six parts by Audrey Lucas. Produced by Howard Rose. (Part 2)
Scenes from the life of the composer by Robert Gittings , with Basil C. Langton as Felix Mendelssohn and Peggy Ashcroft as Fanny, his sister. Produced by Stephen Potter .
Other parts played by Peter Cushing , Edana Romney. Bernard Rebel , Carleton Hobbs , and Alexander Samer. -BBC Orchestra and Chorus, under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult
Adventures and misadventures, songs and stories from lands overseas, told by world-wide travellers. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves. Music arranged by Alan Paul. Programme edited by Leslie Baily and produced by Eric Fawcett. ' (This programme is broadcast on a world network to all the peoples of the Biritish Commonwealth)
with Joyce Grenfell , Claude Dampier - . and Billie Carlyle , and the Yale Brothers ; with music by Vernon Adcock and his Aristocrats. Presented by Jacques Brown
Weekly sidelights on detective fiction, including dramatised excerpts, with Ernest Dudley in the chair
-with C. E. M. Joad. Including how not to argue, how to make an argument lead somewhere, argument for the sake of arguing, not arguing, for. the sake of peace and quiet. With an appendix on how to persuade. Produced by Douglas Cleverdon and Stephen Potter
' Song without Words ', written by Frank O'Connor , read by John Laurie.
(piano)
' Living Artists ' : passage from the Swiss journal of General Manley Hopkins , read by Graham Sutherland
Famous bands playing popular dance tunes, on gramophone records