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.

PUCCINI
Gramophone records of excerpts from Manon Lescaut

Rev. Prebendary J. W. Welch , Ph.D., Director of Religious Broadcasting

' Basic Methods in Cookery : 1-How to Make Soup '

on gramophone records

at the organ of the Empire, Leicester Square

Stephen Kirby describes twenty-five years' humorous experiences as the head of various North-Country schools

Overture : Medea played by the Milan Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli. (Gramophone records)

News commentary

from page 109 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 28 of ' Each Returning Day '. 0 worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness ; Psalm 36, w. 1-9; He who would valiant be

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

Excerpts from some of his operettas, on gramophone records
Thine alone (Eileen) ; Gypsy Love Song
(The Fortune-Teller) : Charles Kullman (tenor)
Kiss me again (Mademoiselle Modiste ) :
London Palladium Orchestra, conducted by Richard Crean
From Princess Pat : Neapolitan Love
Song : Richard Crooks (tenor) ; Love is best of all : Harry Horlick and his Orchestra
From Naughty Marietta : Ah! sweet mystery of life : Anne Ziegler (soprano) and Webster Booth (tenor) ; I'm falling in love with someone : Charles Kullman (tenor) ; Tramp, tramp, tramp along the highway : Nelson Eddy (baritone)

Special health talk for schools: 'Things People Drink', by 'The Radio Doctor'

(violin)

and his Orchestra, with Elizabeth Batey , Pat Macormac , and Harry Kaye

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

talk by Capt. H.W. Le Patourel, V.C.
Captain Le Patourel, the "posthumous V.C." who, after being presumed killed, was located as a prisoner in Italian hands, describes the barter system in a prisoner-of-war hospital.

Conducted by Julius Harrison. Laurance Turner (violin)

(by permission of the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief) : conductor, Mr. H. E. Wheeler

Frank Stewart and his Orchestra

from Southwell Minster
Versicles ana Responses Psalm 60
First Lesson : Ezekiel 34, w. 11-15 Magnificat (Cook in G)
Second Lesson: St. John 10, w. 11-16 Nunc dimittis (Cook in G) Creed and Collects
Goodly is our hentage (G. T. Francis ) Prayers
Ye who own the faith of Jesus (E.H. 218)
Organist, G. T. Francis

BBC Chorus -: conductor, Leslie Woodgate

from the Winter Gardens, Droitwich Spa, with Fanny and Biddy (Mcgregor and West) (by permission of the Windmill Theatre), Irene Hinsley , and dance .music by Vernon Adcock and his Aristocrats. Produced by Jacques Brown

' Molly', a Marshland story by S. L. Bensysan , read by the author.

(Welsh Children's Hour). ' Botymau Pres ' : drama gan Eic Davies. Hanes yr hyn a ddigwyddodd un noson i Sam ac Alun, dau fachgen drygionus y pentref, a'r wers a ddysgwyd iddynt gan y ' Botymau Prês'

' Nursery Sing-Song ', with Doris, Mabel, and Nan
' Playing Safe ' : another talk by Edmund Hardy
Edmund Hardy is the lorry-driver who has broadcast twice previously in Children's Hour, giving useful hints for road safety in his owi; original way. Many listeners will remember * From a Lorry Driver's Point of View', and 'The Wise Old Weasel '. Today he will talk about various children's street games, safe and unsafe.

National and Regional announcements

In the next three programmes in this series Ronald Biggs talks about ' The Amateur Orchestra '. This evening he speaks on the building-up of an orchestra. A group of amateur string players provides the musical illustrations

7.0 ' Songs o' Bonnie Scotland. '
* Mrs. Ferguson ' and James Sloan , who introduce the regular ' Scottish Half-Hour for Forces in the Middle East ', introduce some of the songs that are favourites with Scottish Servicemen. Soloists, Jenny Black , Madeleine Christie , and John Tainsh. Kemlo Stephen , conducts the BBC Scottish Orchestra and Singers. Producer, Howard M. Lockhart
7.20 Willie McCulloch , entertainer

' Religion in the Eighth Army', a despatch from Denis Johnston. (BBC recording)
This is the first of a series of six talks on the general attitude to religion in different sections of society (both in the Forces and in civilian life) and on the prospect before religion in the future.

presenting ' Professor Edwin Carp ', with Elisabeth Welch , John Slater , Helen Clare , and Jack Jackson and his May Fair Hotel Orchestra, with Josephine Driver and the Four Star Girls. Script by Cliff Gordon (by arrangement with the Windmill Theatre). Produced by Vernon Harris.

with spontaneous answers to ' Any Questions ? ' : Lady Eleanor Smith (novelist), Ivor Thomas (Labour M.P. for Keighley), Lt.-Commander R. T. Gould , Major H. B. T. Wake-lam (sports expert), and Professor E. N. da C. Andrade (scientist). Question-Master, Geoffrey Crowther.

Conducted by Harold Lowe

by Joyce Grenfell and Stephen Potter. Including How not to, also how, and how not, to be a guest. Illustrated by Joyce Grenfell , Betty Hardy , Norman Shelley , Gladys Young , Carleton Hobbs , and Jonathan Field. Produced by Stephen Potter

by Samuel Butler , read by Mary Scrutton

Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night) played by the strings of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy. (Gramophone records)

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra