and summary of Forces programmes

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
Exercises for women : May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Andrew Bryson.

SAINT-SAENS
(1835 - 1921). Every morning this week gramophone records of his music will be heard at this time. Today : Some of his vocal and instrumental music

Short morning prayers

Programme Parade

An architect gives some advice on how to prevent them

Mixed choice of records. The high spot is Leporello's air, from Mozart's ' Don Giovanni ', sung by Charles Panzera (baritone)-

and his Sextet

Elsie Carlisle

at the organ of the Westover Cinema, Bournemouth <

A Scottish anthology

from page 117 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 62 of ' Each Returning Day '. Love divine, all loves excelling ; Psalm 85 ; Beloved, let us love

Sunderland Constabulary Band : conductor, W. H Cowell ;

on gramophone records
Overture : Medea (Cherubini) : Milan
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli
Suite : Prelude, March, and Nocturne
(Lulli) : Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra
Clarinet Concerto in A, K.62 (Mozart):
Reginald Kell and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Malcolm Sargent

Under the direction of Harold C. Gee

These programmes bring before you month by month the changing facets of the rural v scene. Country men and women are brought to the microphone to speak about their lives and work.

ENSA concert for war-workers. Orchestra of H.M. Royal Marines (Chatham Division), under the direction of Lieut. T. Francis. Guest artist, Yvette Darnac

followed by a recording of last night's postscript

Lena Wood (viola). Tom Bromley (piano)

Conducted by Captain A. Lemoine , Director of Music, Life Guards

Ballet music by Tchaikovsky .played by the London Philharmonic
Orchestra, conducted by Antal Dorati. (Gramophone records)

Nat Allen and his Band

and his Orchestra play some of your old favourites in present-day settings

Conductor, Guy Warrack

sung by the Bangor National Eisteddfod Choir, conducted by R. J. Evans

gyda Chor Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Bangor a'u cyfeillion. Cenir nifer o ganeuon poblogaidd o dan arweiniad Mansel Thomas. (Welsh light programme)

Boxing-Day concert of music from children's Christmas plays, given by the BBC Northern Orchestra (conducted by Ronald Biggs ), with Doris Gambell (soprano) and John Hargreaves (baritone)
This is the fourth in the series of concerts given by the Northern Orchestra before an audience of children. Today's programme includes music from Peter Pan , Where the Rainbotv Ends, The Starlight Express, The Blue Bird, and Snow White, linked by the stories of the plays Told by Nan.

National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary

Irving Berlin's great U.S. soldier show is touring Britain in aid of British Service charities. For the benefit of listeners who cannot see the stage version, the BBC broadcasts some high lights of the show, with Irving Berlin and the original company. The programme, under the musical direction of Sgt. Milton Rosenstock , is produced by James Dyrenforth and introduced by John Watt.

Serial play for broadcasting, adapted by .Richard Fisher and Peter Creswell from the film and novel by the former. Produced by Peter Creswell . Episode 5 — ' The Trap '
Eric Portman as Lieutenant de
Montcorbier (' Francois Villon ')
Carla Lehmann as Catherine de
Vausselles
Belle Chrystall as Marion L'Ydolle Mary Hinton as La Belle Heaulmiere also members of the Cercle de Villon, of the underworld of Paris, cocottes, café habitués, etc. and Deryck Guyler as Mr. Curtis
Guy Guy-Mas as M. Chaminade
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Violin Sonata No. 2, in A minor played by Albert Sammons (violin) and Gerald Moore (piano)

with Edward Cooper; 'Crime Chasers, Ltd.', featuring Jane Grahame and Vernon Harris; 'Many Happy Returns of the Day', a musical birthday greeting; Binnie Hale; 'Puzzle Corner'; 'The Lodger', featuring Cyril Fletcher and Betty Astell, written by Dick Pepper; 'Take the Stand': Frederick Burtwell cross-examines famous artists (presented by Leonard Urry). The Singing Commeres, Revue Chorus, and BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper

Scenes from ' Lady Precious Stream ' by Shih I. Hsiung. Recording of the first act, from the stage of the Theatre Royal, Bristol, made by a C.E.M.A. company including 0. B. Clarence as the Honourable Reader, Thea Holme as Lady Precious Stream, Stanford Holme as Hsieh the gardener, Margaret Rutherford as Madam Wang , and Christtan Morrow as the Prime Minister Wang Yun. The Company, directed by Stanford Holme, has been touring Royal Ordnance and munition-workers' hostels. Radio adaptation and production by Mary Hope Allen

Conducted by Ronald Biggs. Olive Zorian (violin), Winifred Copper wheat - (viola)

Weekly sidelight on detective fiction, including dramatised excerpts, with Ernest Dudley in the chair. (BBC recording)

and her Girls Band

Elizabeth Poston chooses poems from ' A Mad Lady's Garland', by Ruth Pitter

Impromptus : in B flat, Op. 142; in E flat, Op. 90 played by Shulamith Shafir (piano)