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.
MUSSORGSKY
First of two record programmes of excerpts from Boris Godunov
Rev. Alexander Miller
' Bits and Pieces ', by F. T. Hewson
Popular songs and danpe music, on gramophone records
on gramophone records
Overture ; Entry and Dance of the Tailors ;
Dinner Table Music and Dance of the Scullions (Suite : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Introductory music
Prayer
To the Name of our Salvation (A. and M. 179, vv. 1, 2, 5, 6; C.H. 164, vv. 1, 2, 4, 5: Tune, Oriel)
Interlude
Prayers: The Prayer for God's Presence; the Lord's Prayer
Soldiers of the Cross, arise (A. and M. 58S, omitting v. 2; S.P. 642; C.H. 341, omitting v 2: Tune, Crucis milites)
Blessing
Closing music
Directed! by Sidney Crooke
(For Welsh schools). Cwrs y Byd : cyfres i blant dros 12 oed
News commentary
from page 25 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 46. of ' Each Returning Day '. At thy Feet, 0 Christ ; Pulm 25, w. 1-10 ; Dear Lord and Father of mankind
Emanuel Feuermann (cello), on gramophone records
' Some advice about weaning ', by a doctor
11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS, by Ann Driver
11.20 USEFUL CITIZENS : 'Robert Owen ', by Honor Wyatt
11.40 TALKS FOR SIXTH FORMS. ' Sound and Unsound Arguments ' (series devised by R. H. Thouless) : 1—' How arguments may be recognised by their shapes '
sung by George Gibbs (baritone)
Recording of part of last night's broadcast
ENSA concert for war-workers, from a factory canteen. Dance Orchestra of No. 1 Balloon Centre (' The Sky-rockets '), directed by Corporal Paul Ferioulhet (by permission of the Air Officer Commanding). Guest artists, Stephane Grappelly and Lucille Benstead
Olive Zorian (violin). BBC Orchestra (led by Marie Wilson ), conducted by Harold Gray
From a concert-hall in the South
2.0 TRAVEL TALKS. ' Ports of Call '. 1—' Somewhere in Britain': the traveller goes aboard the S.S. ' Crown Imperial'
2.15 Interval music
2.20 INTERMEDIATE FRENCH, by Jean-Jacques Oberlin and Marie Touchard. Programme varie, comprenant un concours : ' Oh, cela se passe-t-il ? '
2.40 SENIOR ENGLISH I. Book talk -' The Engineer Corporal', by C. Hamilton Ellis : the adventures of a boy who drove an engine for the Northern Army in the American Civil War, adapted by Silvia Goodall
Scottish Variety Orchestra : conductor, Ronnie Munro
Novelty numbers and solo pieces, played by the BBC Variety Orchestra (conductor, Charles Shadwell ), with Jack Cooper
Members of the Fighting Forces who entertain their comrades in their spare time, visit the studio to provide a Variety entertainment. Producer, Howard M. Lockhart
Conducted by Julius Harrison.
Gwendolen Parke (piano)
(News and topical talks in Welsh)
5.0 Newyddion y Dydd
5.5 ' Newyddion o'r Senedd ', gan D. Owen Evans , A.S.
5.10 Yr Wythnos yng Nghymru', gan E. Morgan Humphreys
5.15 Gair i Gall'. Y gyntaf o gyfres o sgyrsiau byrion gan Feddyg
5.20 Two piano medleys, played by Violet Carson and Muriel Levy
Pencil and Paper : puzzles, questions, and catches by P. Caton Baddeley
5.40 Petrushka ' : Spike Hughes tells the story of the famous ballet, with musical illustrations
National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary
' Portrait of a Mother', by Minnie Pallister
' Wives and their Husbands' Hobbies ', by Robert Lucas
' Women's War-Time Problems', by Mary Ferguson
Conductor, Guy Warrack
2—' Message and Propaganda ' : talk by Major Michael Macowan
with Betty Warren ; and Fred Yule ,
Bill Stephens ,and Philip Wade. BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Mansel Thomas. Script by Tommy Thompson. Produced by Francis Worsley
and the Twentieth-Century Serejiaders
You and the night and the music Schwartz
Whether the name of Judge Jeffreys , who presided over the ' Bloody Assize ' after the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, is famous or infamous must not be said until sentence is passed. Sir Norman Birkett gives judgment and sums up for and against. Produced by Stephen Potter , with Cecil Trouncer as Judge Jeffreys
Thomas Lyall on ' Japan '
Quartet No. 3, in A played by the Laurance Turner String Quartet
Radio play written and produced by Tyrone Guthrie.
and the Song-Spinners, on records
and postscript
Joyce Grenfell chooses 'Mrs. Hague, the Gardener's Wife', by Sir Osbert Sitwell
with his Orchestra, from the South Parade Pier Ballroom, Portsmouth
and his Septet, introduced by David Mifler