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 La Boheme

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

Try Something New ', by a Polish housewife, Mrs. Kowalska

Popular dance music and songs, on gramophone records

on gramophone records
De l'aube a midi sur la mer (Prom Dawn to Noon at Sea) ; Dialogue du vent et de la mer (Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea; (La Mer) : Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Serge Kous sevitzky

Introductory music Prayer
Fill thou my life (A. and M. 705, omitting w. 5 and 6 j S.P. 492: Tune, Richmond)
Talk
Blest are the pure in heart (A. and M.
261 ; S.P. 455 ; C.H. 478: Tune, Francoma)
Prayers - The Prayer of St. Richard ; the Lord's Prayer
Jesus shall reign (A. and M. 220; S.P.
545 ; C.H. 388, omitting v. 2: Tune, Truro)
Blessing
Closing music

(For Welsh schools). Cwrs y Byd : cyfres i blant dros 12 oed

News commentary

from page 77 of ' New Every Morning' and page 34 of Each Returning Day'. Crown him with many crowns ; Psalm 24; 0 lesu. King most wonderful

Joan Hammond (soprano), on gramophone records

More about feeding your baby'. by a doctor

Gramophone programme on Waring's Pennsylvanians. written by G F. Gray-Clarke ,

SPECIAL HEALTH TALK FOR SCHOOLS: Any Questions ? '. by ' The Radio Doctor

Osborne Peasgood (organ) and George Parker (baritone)

Recording of part of last night's broadcast

ENSA concert for war-workers, from a factory canteen. Joe Loss and his Orchestra. Guest artist. Jack Anthony

Conductor, Ian Whyte

Conducted by Frank Cantell , with Helen Hill

Dramatic overtures for the stage and concert hall : introduced, with gramophone records, by Scott Goddard

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

at the theatre organ

Conductor, W. Haydn Bebb

Conducted by Julian Clifford. Vina Bamden (piano)

(News and topical talks in Welsh)
5.0 Newyddion y Dydd
5,5 ' Newyddion o'r Senedd', gan D. R. Grenfell
5.10 ' Yr Wythnos yng Nghymru gan William Eames
5.15 Sgwrs amserol

' Children's Magazine'. Scottish number includes :
Children singing from Barra (recording)
R. G. Lawrie tells how bagpipes are made : illustrations played by Pipe-Major John Macdonald
Songs of the North, sung by Alexander Henderson
A Ballad, read by Jean Taylor
Smith
' Annan on the Air' : an entertainment recorded recently when Annan children raised funds for General Montgomery's troops

National and Regional announcements, followed by Scottish News summary

This number is devoted to thrashing out the question of the housewife's economic standing in the home. Two. women Members of Parliament, Dr. Edith Summerskill and Lady Davidson, debate some of the issues recently raised by the Blackwell case, and afterwards a Frenchwoman, Madame Biddulph , will give her views on what has been said

Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. Ill played by Kendall Taylor

A townsman's view of farm life : fourth of a monthly series of outside broadcasts depicting seasonal developments and problems at a general farm in the Midlands. Commentators, Michael Standing , John Ellison , and Godfrey Baseley.

' Theatre or Cinema ? ' : talk by Michael Redgrave. First talk in a new series, introduced in an article on page 4

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

The story of a Czech partisan. Written by Josef Schilch and Erik Denrose. Produced by Walter Rilla

or 'Love will find out the way': an old-fashioned pantomime by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley , with music by Walter Leigh. Produced by Stephen Thomas
Maidens, youths, and fairies, played by the BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre Orchestra. Narrator, Alan Howland

with Abbott and Costello, and Frank Crumit. (Gramophone records)

and postscript

Cantata No. 170 : ' Blessed rest, beloved joy' (English translation by D. Millar-Craig ). Mary Jarred (contralto), the Zorian String Quartet, Natalie James (oboe d'amore), James Merrett Junior (double bass), and Eric Gritton (organ)

Peggy Ashcroft chooses ' On News ', from ' Centuries of Meditation ', by Thomas Traheme

and his New Ballroom Orchestra, with Edna Kaye , Irene King , and Paul Rich. From the Palais de Danse, Hammersmith