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 movements from his Cello Ccncerto in A minor, and Piano Concerto in C minor

Short morning prayers

'The Good Old Days', by Mrs. Arthur Webb

Popular numbers, on gramophone records

at the organ of the Granada, Clapham Junction

played by Lucy Pierce

Led by Albert Sandier , with Eugenie Safonova.
(Traditional items arranged by Yascha Krein )

Concertstuck in F minor, for piano and orchestra played by Robert Ca'sadesus (piano) and the Orchestre Symphonique (of Paris), conducted by Eugene Bigot. (Gramophone records)

from page 85 of "New Every Morning" and page 10 of "Each Returning Day". Cowley Carols 12; Psalm 67; In the bleak mid-winter

Harold Williams (baritone), on gramophone records

' The First Six Weeks ' : talk by a doctor

Chorus songs, on gramophone records

Music of the Sunny South, played by the Southern Serenade Orchestra, directed by Reg Leopold. Programme produced by Fred Hartley

Chaconne in G minor played by Harold Fairhurst (violin) Tommaso Antonio Vitali was born in Bologna about the middle of the seventeenth century. His father, Giovanni Battista. was a well-known composer before him. The main compositions of both father and son were yiolin sonatas. In addition to editing many of his father's sonatas Tommaso has three published volumes of his own sonatas to his credit ; but he is now beat known for the Chaconne for violin to be played this afternoon.

Recording of part of last night's broadcast

ENSA concert for war-workers from a factory canteen. New Year*s greetings from Allied artists to their British comrades in the factories, with Odo Slobodskaya , the Russian prima donna ; Marian Zigmunt , the Polish bass ; and Otto Lampel , the Czechoslovakian composer and artist. ENSA Variety Orchestra, conducted by Jack Leon

Conducted by Julius Harrison. Gladys Ripley (contralto)

Memories of Fred Astaire , recalled with the aid of gramophone records, by John Foreman

(died on December 6, 1943) played by the BBC Variety Orchestra, with Helen Hill (soprano) and Stephen Manton (tenor). Arranged and conducted by Charles Shadwell

Harry Davidson and his Orchestra

on gramophone records
Overture and Dance of Roosters (Maskerade : Nielsen) : Royal Danish Orchestra, conducted by J. Hye-Knudsen
Death of Melisande (Pelleas and Melisande:
Sibelius) : London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
Piano Concerto No. in E (
Reynaldo Hahn ) : Magda Tagliafero (piano), with Orchestra, conducted by the composer
Marche tartare (Rusager) : Copenhagen
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Jensen

and his Versatile Five
Medley

Cyflwynwn i chwi yn y rhaglen hon, gan mwyat oddi ar rccordiau, beth o'r caneuon a'r gerddoriaeth a ddarUedwyd yn ystod y flwyddyn i'r wlad hon ac i wledydd tramor. Fel y cewch glywed bu'r amrywiaeth yn fawr a'r gan yn ber. Rhaglen o dan ofal Sam Jones a T. Rowland Hughes. (Programme in Welsh)

' Looking Backward' : two children turn back the pages of the Radio Times and recall some of the programmes they liked best during the Children's Hour of 1943

National and Regional announcements, and Scottish News summary

' Some Reminiscences', by Cicely Hamilton
'No More Beer for Dad' : a talk on New Year resolutions by Kevin Fitzgerald
' Looking Back ' : review of listeners' letters during 1943, by Mary Ferguson

Once again members of a studio audience give auditions, are cast, and perform ' The Ray of Destin^', a super-melodramatic serial, in six fortnightly episodes. Episode 5-' Foiled Again'. Produced and introduced by Vernon Harris .

' Rear Ranker' deals with some little-known facts about ' Prize' in war, and the romance of the Prize Courts

with Betty Warren ; and Fred Yule , Doris Nichols , Philip Wade. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas. Script by Tommy Thompson. Produced by Francis Worsley.

and postscript

Conductor, Ian Whyte *
Elgar's Serenade for strings is one of the most important of the composer's early works. Consisting of three short movements, it is a little masterpiece of pure melody and beautiful and delicate writing. The slow movement, the gem of the piece, is based on an exquisite theme that anticipates the Elgar of the slow movement of the A flat Symphony. 'It is one of the finest and most sustained that ever came from Elgar's pen '. says Ernest Newman.

Feature concert with the Norwegian Merchant Navy Singers, led by Pastor F. Kirsebom ; Tsu Wong Chang (China); Otakar Kraus (Czechoslovakia) ; J. Sulikowski (Poland); Simos Xenos (Greece); Anna - Marley (Russia) ; Kenneth Cantril (U.S.A.) ; the Polish Army Choir; the Royal Corps of Signals Light Orchestra, directed by Clifford Knowles , and speakers and singers from France, Belgium* Holland, and Yugoslavia. Narrator, Frank Phillips. Produced by John Polwarth

A modern parable-play of the present and future, written and produced by Louis MacNeice

A revel from Edinburgh

A record of the Old Year and a welcome to the New. Narrator, John Snagge. Narration written by Robert Barr. Produced by John Glyn-Jones and Michael Standing
In this programme the people of Britain tell their own story of a great year, and voice their hopes for 1944 in a programme illustrated by outside broadcasts from a factory, a coal-mine, a farm, a first-aid post, a Home Guard sentry-post, a war casualties hospital ward, a Naval light coastal craft base, a merchant seamen's club, a Royal Air Force bomber station.
WATCH NIGHT. SERVICE : address by the Rev. A. R. R. Reid of Belmont Church, Glasgow at midnight, followed by greetings to the New Year