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.

VERDI
Gramophone records of excerpts from Rigoletto, II Trovatore, and La Traviata

Short morning prayers

Programme Parade

' The How and Why of Cooking : How Heat Cooks' (i), by Philip Harben

on gramophone records

at the organ of the Granada, Clapham Junction

Talk by Isobel Swarbrick

Introductory music Prayer
At the name of Jesus (A. and M. 306, vv.
1, 5, 6 ; S.P. 392, vv. 1, 4, 5 ; C.H. 178, .vv. 1, 3, 4 : Tune, Evelyns)
Interlude
Prayers : The Prayer of St. Richard ; the Lord's Prayer
Take up thy cross (A. and M. 263, omitting v. 6 ; S.P. 119, omitting v. 6) ; C.H. 501 : Tune, Breslau)
Blessing
Closing music

(arr. Lambert), played by the Halle Orchestra , conducted by Constant Lambert. (Gramophone records)

News commentary

, from page 29 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 52 of ' Each Returning Day '. Father, we praise thee ; Psalm 90. vv. 1-12 ; Metrical Psalm 124 (2)

Debroy Somers and his Band

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR. INFANTS : Ann Driver
11.20 SENIOR HISTORY I. European Heritage : ' What do other nations remember ? ' Holland remembers William of Orange (1567-1584) : the nobleman who loved liberty and fought for twenty years to make. Holland a free nation : by Douglas Allan
11.40 Interval music
11.45 PHYSICAL TRAINING (for use in classrooms), by Coleman Smith

Conducted by Muir Mathieson

Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Britain

Irene Scharrer (piano)
Chopin
Nocturne in G
Sonata in B flat minor
Two studies : in A flat ; in A minor
(Winter Wind)
From the Houldsworth Hall , Manchester

1.50 I YSGOLION CYMRU (For Welsh schools). Caneuon Gwerin Cymru : cyfres gan Amy Parry-Williams . 9-' Caneuon a Byrdwn ' . : Cenir caneuon fel ' Yr Hen wr Mwyn ', ' Y Broga Bach '
2.10 HOW THINGS BEGAN: 'Brain, Eye, and Hand', by Honor Wyatt
2.30 Interval music
2.35 SENIOR ENGLISH II : ' The
Play's the Thing ' : programme by Rhoda Power , about a boy actor of Shakespeare's time, and a family who go to the playhouse to see ' Macbeth '

Coventry Hippodrome Orchestra : conductor, William Pethers. From the New Hippodrome, Coventry

from King's College, Cambridge
Antiphon : Father of all (Tye)
Versicles and Responses (Tomkins) Psalm 84
First Lesson : Proverbs 18, w. 10-15 Magnificat (Weelkes, Short Service)
Second Lesson : St. Luke 13, w. 18-30 Nunc dimittis (Weelkes, Short Service) The Lord's Prayer (Robert Stones) Versicles and Responses (Tomkins)
Jssu, grant me this, I pray (Gibbons-
Bairslow) i
Prayer
Organist, Harold Darke

My love dwelleth in a northern land Serenade
O happy eyes
Feasting, I watch sung by. the BBC Sinrers, conducted by G. Thalben-Ball

from the Winter Gardens, Droitwich Spa, with Vernon Lee, the Southern Sisters, and dance music by Vernon Adcock and his Aristocrats.

' Mrs. Thomson's Onion', written and read by Jeanne Heal. (Previously broadcast on September 19, 1942)

(Welsh Children's Hour). ' Y Blodyn Gwyn '. Ffantasi i blant gan Ifan o Williams. Y gerddoriaeth gan Mansel Thomas

' Animal Bee ' : children's parlour game. Question-master, Geoffrey Grigson
Last August, the girls of St. Leonard's School, Shaftesbury, challenged the boys of Clayesmore School, Blandford, to a Wild-Flower Bee, and the girls were the victors. This afternoon there is a return match, and the boys have chosen the subject * Animals '.

followed by National and Regional announcements

and his Two Orchestras

' The Lie of the Land ', written and produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall
The third programme in this series describes and discusses some of the farming experiments that have been started in order to increase food production in war-time but may help to establish agriculture on a secure and stable basis after the war.

Third of a series of four talks by members of a group of Manchester public men : Sir Frederick J. West , K.B.E., an employer in the engineering industry and Past-President of the Manchester District Engineering Employers Association, speaks on ' Christianity and the Problems of Industrial Life '

Can you, the great listening public, get a bigger laugh thad three famous comedians ? David Miller , as Master of Ceremonies, reads stones sent in by listeners, and guest stars do their best to cap them. Produced by Alick Hayes

with spontaneous answers to ' Any Questions ? 'First two-way Anglo-American edition of the season. In New York, Leon Henderson. In London, Dr. Edith Summerskill M.P. ,
, Captain Quintin Hogg M.P ,., Dr. Malcolm Sargent , Dr. Julian Huxley. Question-Master, Donald McCullough. Producer, Howard Thomas
(Recording : to be broadcast again next Sunday afternoon at 4.15 in the Forces programme).

'London Tomorrow ? ' : the County of London Plan criticised and defended by a planner, an architect, and an economist : F. J. Osborn , Hon. Sec. , Town and Country Planning Association ; Dr. Thomas Sharp , architect and town planner ; Donald Tyerman , deputy editor of ' The Economist'
The County of London Plan is now on view at Burlington House, Piccadilly. Lord Latham , Leader of the L.C.C., broadcast a talk about it on the day it was first presented, and in September there wa a broadcast discussion about the Plan between two architects, a housewife, and a Bethnal Green schoolboy.

BBC Theatre Orchestra : conductor, Stanford Robinson

Written and produced by Leonard Cottrell, with the co-operation of the Air Ministry. Music by Vaughan Williams, played by the London Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Muir Mathieson.
The programme reconstructs three typical days in the lives of a Coastal Command squadron. Listeners are taken behind the scenes and shown what an anti-U-boat bombing exercise is like, what is said at the briefings before patrol, and at the interrogations, afterwards.

and her Girls Band