and summary of today's programmes for the Forces

Conductor, Rae Jenkins

Messages recently recorded by members of the Services in East Africa for their relatives and friends in this country

The Luton Band, conducted by Fred Mortimer

played by G. D. Cunningham
From the Town Hall, Birmingham

Conducted by the Rev. F. A. Cockin , Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral
Theme : ' Putting our own house in order Immortal, invisible, God only wise
(S.P. 535 ; C.H. 12)
Address
0 God of truth (A. and M. 513; CH.
531)
Prayers
0 thou who camest from above (A. and M.
698 ; C.H. 471)
Reading : 1 John 1, w. 5-10 and 3, vv.
18-22
Prayers and the Lord's prayer Lift up your hearts (S.P. 560) Blessing

sung by Arsene Kirilloff (baritone)

Richard Crean and his Orchestra

Alec Robertson talks about some of the technical terms which are always cropping up in books and articles on music, and gives illustrations of them from well-known works

o Peniel, Capel yr Annibynwyr, Aberayron. (Religious Service' in Welsh, from Peniel, Congregational Chapel, Aberayron) Trefn y Gwasanaeth
Mae Pren y Bywyd wedi ei gaet (59:
Ton, St Stephen)
Darllen : Rhufeiniaid 5, 1-11 Gweddi
Mi goda'm hegwan lef (886: Ton,
Gorfoledd)
Pregeth gan y Parchedig Gwilym Evans - Ti fu'n croesi'r mor ystormus (592 : Ton,
Blaenwern)
Y
Fendith Organyddes , Tegwen Parry ; Corfeistr,
Griffith Rees
(Cymerir yr Emynau o'r Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol)

5-The BBC Symphony Orchestra. (Gramophone records)
Arab Dance ; Flower Waltz (Nutcracker
Suite : Tchaikovsky) : Percy Pitt
Sospiri, Op. 70 ; Enigma Variations, Op.
36 (Elgar) : conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Last movement from Piano Concerto
No. 2. in B flat, Op. 83 (Brahms) : with Arthur Schnabel ; conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
First movement from Symphony in F minor (Vaughan Williams) : conducted by the composer
Overture : The Silken Ladder (Rossini).: conducted by Toscanini

Fortnightly programme from the countryside. No. 45-' The Village of Haddenham, Buckinghamshire '. Music arranged by Frank Collinson. Editor, Peter Gordon , late of Haddenham. Produced by Francis Dillon. Speakers : Walter Rose (carpenter and author), Harry Timberlake (builder), Harry Newitt (saddler and shoemaker), Mrs. Ralph Webb (farmer's wife), Herbert Clarke (farm-worker), Neddy Parker (sometime mummer), Keith Newton (electrician), and Driver Fred Johnson (H.M. Forces)

Quartet in D minor, Op. 56 {Voces intimae) played by the Budapest String Quartet. (Gramophone records)

by C. H. Middleton

(leader, Jean Pougnet ), conducted by Heinz Unger
From the Adelphi Theatre, London
During the interval Geoffrey Sharp talks about the symphonies of Bruckner

at the theatre organ -

Series of talks, dealing with events of religious significance in the life of the nation, and with the work of the Churches at home and abroad, by the Rev. Nathaniel Micklem , D.D.

Rhaglen o ganu emynau gan Gor Undebol Aberayron o dan arweiniad R. J. Evans. Organyddes, Tegwen Parry. (Hymn-singing in Welsh from
Peniel, Congregational Chapel, Aberayron)

Play : ' John Bunyan ', fourth in the series ' Children of Light', by V. A. Peam. Produced by Derek McCul loch
Neighbours, 'gaolers, prisoners

Conducted by Harold Lowe

' What is Whooping Cough ? ' by ' The Radio Doctor '

Talk by the Adjutant-General, General Sir Ronald Adam , Bt., K.C.B., who describes his recent visit to India and to the Mediterranean

Conducted by Clarence Raybould

Conducted by Dr. W. A. L. Elmslie , Principal of Westminster College, Cambridge
Theme : ' The Law of Life '
Sentences and Prayer of Invocation
Good unto all men is the Lord (C.H. 784) Address
When wilt thou save the people? (Cong.
H. 555)
Reading : St. Matthew 25, w. 31-46 Prayers.
The Lord will come (C.H. 151 ; S.P. 658) Blessing

Appeal on behalf of the Ex-Services Welfare Society, by an unknown soldier of the last war.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed].

Peggy Ashcroft speaks lines from Edmund Spenser

followed by a postscript

A Soviet play by Afinogenev, in the English version by Hubert Griffith. Produced by Barbara Burnham
' We all have only one Distant Point, a world in which all men shall live their lives in freedom and happiness..... We all think of that, live for that ... to the very last second of our last hour.'
Scene : A lonely wayside railway station on the Trans-Siberian Railway, about 7,000 kilometres from Moscow and 2,000 from Vladivostock, during twenty-four hours in August in the nineteen-thirties.
This is the opening play in ' Life and the Theatre ', the joint series of Sunday-evening plays and friday talks discussed in an article by Geoffrey Grigson in our last issue. The talks began last Friday with Michael Redgrave speaking on ' Theatre or Cinema ? ', and are continued this Friday with a talk by Michael Macowan , a young stage producer now in the Forces, who will discuss Message and Propaganda ' in drama.

' The Law of Life '. Psalm 97 ; Amos 5, vv. 6-24 ; Judge eternal (S.P. 557) , Psalm 97. v. 10 ..

Quartet in D minor (K.421) played by the Blech String Quartet. (Gramophone records).

18 — 'Bush Fire', from The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn ', by Henry Kingsley : read by Charles E. Stidwill