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.

DELIUS
Gramophone records of ' On hearing the first cuckoo in Spring', 'Over the hills and far away ', and Serenade (Hassan)

Short morning prayers

' The Radio Doctor '

Gramophone records

and his Sextet
From the Winter Gardens, Malvern

Vera Lynn. At the piano, Len Edwards

at the theatre organ

News commentary

from page 9 of "New Every Morning" and page 54 of "Each Returning Day". Songs of praise the angels sang; Psalm 8; Lord of all hopefulness

Debroy Somers and his Band

11.0 SCOTTISH HERITAGE.'Tam O'Shanter': broadcast for Burns Night
11.20 CURRENT AFFAIRS, discussed by experts
11.40 MUSIC AND THE DANCE, by Ronald Cunliffe : 2—'To the May-pole'

and his Orchestra, featuring Dorothy Carless , with Doreen Villiers , Ruth Howard , Len Camber , Derek Roy , Johnny Green , Three Boys and a Girl

164th in the Northern series of concerts by war-workers during, the lunch-hour break. Produced by Victor Smythe

these gramophone records from outstanding musical plays
My hero (The Chocolate Soldier:
Straus) : Ina Souez (soprano), with chorus
Selection : The Dubarry (Millocker) : New
Light Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Willie Luckner
Girls wer2 made to love and kiss (Paganini:
Lehar) ; Patiently smiling (Land of Smiles : Lehdr) : Richard Tauber
Leo Fall Pot-pourri : Marek' Weber and his Orchestra
From Arc de Triomphe (Novello) : Easy to live with : Mary Ellis (soprano) and Peter Graves (baritone) ; Dark Music : Elisabeth Welch

1.50 for RURAL SCHOOLS (England). Finding out about Dylsford. ' Breaking the Ice', by Honor Wyatt. Dylsford water-supplies ; springs and wells. Captain Sam tells stories of thirsty lands
2.10 Interval music
2.15 GENERAL SCIENCE. Your Body and its Growth ',by Richard Palmer
2.35 Interval music
2.40 JUNIOR ENGLISH. Part 2 of a dramatised version of The Story of Undine', by Silvia Goodall : how Prince Hildbrand lost Undine for ever

Harold Collins and his Orchestra

Contrasting American sweet and swing dance bands : gramophone programme, written by Geoffrey S. Pearce

Conducted by G. Thalben-Ball. At the organ, Geraint Jones

by Robert Burns , read by C. R. M. Brookes

Ymgais Cymdeithas Pobl leuainc i gadw mewn cyffyrddiad a'r bechgyn yn y lluoedd arfog gan T. J. Evans. (Talk in Welsh)

5.20 ' Stuff and Nonsense ' : fun fare on the air, concocted by Muriel Levy , with Doris Gambell , Violet Carson , Wilfred Pickles , Muriel Levy , and Nan. Guest artist, Barrie Cameron.
5.55 Children's Hour prayers

National and Regional announcements

Wyn Griffith of the Board of Inland Revenue, explains details of the new ' Pay-as-you-earn' income-tax scheme in the series ' Can I Help You ?'

The sentiment of Russia's love-songs and the gaiety of her dances contrasted with those of South America, in a programme of music and songs from both countries. Featuring Irene Prador and Edmundo Ros and his Rumba Rhythm. Produced by Joan Clark

Albert Sammons (violin). BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard ), conducted by Malcolm Sargent Clive Douglas is an Australian composer whose home is in Tasmania. His music is essentially national ; in his symphonic sketches ' Carwoola ' he sets out to paint the Australian bush scene. The word Carwoola, by the way, is a name given by the aborigines to a secluded part of the bush unvisited by any tribe. ' Here ', says one commentator, ' the guardian spirits meet in secret and hold council to guide the destinies of the brave '. ' Carwoola ' was performed at a Promenade Concert last June. 7.52 app. Interval
From a concert-hall in the South

Weekly programme telling in dramatic form stories of courage and endurance, of humour and heroism, from the week's news. Edited by Gordon Bostiell , with music under the direction of George Walter. Produced by Leonard Cottrell
(Recording will be broadcast, on Friday at
5.30 p.m. in the Forces programme)

A satirical pantomime for war-time, written by Michael Barsley , with music by Roy Douglas. Produced by John Glyn-Jones . ( of the broadcast on December 25, 1943)
Taxi-men, thieves, Ministry officials played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company

Naidheachdan, seanchas, dain, orain is abhach.das. (Gaelic light programme)

Sir Stephen Tallents chooses ' Ashes of Soldiers', by Walt Whitman

sung by Roy Henderson (baritone)
The Message; Love's Glow ; Sunday; 0 lovely face ; Her Letter
(All from Op. 47 : all translations by A. H Fox-Strangways)

Famous bands play popular dance music. (Gramophone records)