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.

SAINT-SAENS
Gramophone records of excerpts from 'Samson and Delilah'

Short morning prayers

' The Radio Doctor'

Gramophone records

Conductor, Rae Jenkins

Billy Mayerl

at the organ of the New Victoria Cinema, Bradford

from page 1 -of ' New Every Morning ' and page 6 of 'Each Returning Day'. Cowley Carols 68 ; Psalm 63, vv. 1-8 God from on high hath heard

Van Dam and his Orchestra

and his Orchestra, featuring Dorothy Carless , with-Doreen Villiers , Ruth Howard , Len Camber , Derek Roy , Johnny Green , Three Boys and a Girl

Musical reminiscences of peace-time holidays, on records

from the Ritz Cinema, Belfast

160th in the Northern series of concerts by war-workers during their lunch-hour break. Produced by Victor Smythe

Natasha Litvin (piano). Murray Davies (baritone)

Conductor, William Foster

Giving the ' low-down on the high-ups '. Twelfth edition. Script by Charles Hatton. Music and production by Leslie Bridgmont

played by the BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Julius Harrison

Rhythmic records

played by James Whitehead (cello), and Cecil James (bassoon)

(with acknowledgment to Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse Ltd.). Excerpt from the pantomime devised, written, and presented by Flt.-Lieut. B. C. Hilliam (' Mr. Flotsam'), and personnel at a Royal Air Force station in the North

Variety, on records

Reading from the poem of Alexander Pope, by Ernest Thesiger

•Hanes y wlad a'i phobl, gan y Parch.
D. E. Jones. (Talk in Welsh)

5.20 ' Round the Shows': the Children's Hour looks in on some of the Christmas plays and pantomimes, and visits a children's cinema
5.55 'A Christmas Story from Africa ', by Canon Edward Daniell

followed by National and Regional announcements

Douglas Houghton discusses the many regulations and official forms with which everyone nowadays has to deal

Fifteen musical minutes with Bettie Bucknelle , James Moody , Peter Akister , George Elliott , George Hurley , and Joe Linnane. Produced by Jimmy Dyrenforth. (BBC recording)

Clifford Curzon (piano). BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard ), conducted by Basil Camerop
7.50 app. Interval
From a concert-hall in the South
During the interval Roger Fiske talks about Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, in G

Weekly programme telling in dramatic form stories of courage and endurance, of humour and heroism, from the week'news. Edited by Gordon Boshell , with music under the direction of George Walter. Produced by Walter Rilla

(by permission of the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief). Conductor, Flying Officer Martin Boundy

Review of events north of the Tweed in 1943, by George Blake , who introduces some s. Produced by Moultrie R. Kelsall

John Betjeman chooses ' Audley Court', by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola, cello, and bass played by the Griller String Quartet, and Pauline Juler (clarinet), Cecil James (bassoon), Dennis Brain (horn), James Merret (bass). (Gramophone records)

and her Girls Band