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.

BIZET
Gramophone records of excerpts from Carmen

Rev. Eric Fenn , Assistant Director of Religious Broadcasting

Programme Parade

by a laundry manager

' Near Misses ' : less-known tunes and songs from famous shows : record programme, written by Roy Plomley

(by permission of the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief) : conductor, ' Flight-Lieutenant Martin Boundy

at the organ of the Regal, Marble Arch

and his Apache Band, with Amalia Magri and Jacques Vallez

from page 17 of "New Every Morning" and page 12 of "Each Returning Day". When all thy mercies, O my God; Psalm 65; For the beauty of the earth

BBC Midland Light Orchestra : conductor, Rae Jenkins

at the organ of the Plaza, Rugby

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

Conducted by Harold Lowe

Concert given by war-workers during their lunch-hour break, from a factory somewhere in Wales

by Beatrice Andrews (contralto) and the Albion Trio
Songs :

Variety, on records

Soloists, chorus, and orchestra of La Scala, Milan, conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli , on records. Presentation by Spike Hughes

* with his Orchestra

Ymweliad a - Llythyrdy mewn pentref yng Ngogledd Cymru. Y cyfarwyddo gan Sam Jones. (Talks in Welsh)

Children's Variety : Dino Galvani (' So-So '), the master of mispronunciation, A. J. Powell , the xylophone ace ; songs by Ernest Butcher ; impersonations by Ernest Regon ; Wilfred Walter in a comedy monologue, ' 'Off for the Holidays and James Moody and Peter Akister at two pianos

National and Regional announcements and Northern Ireland News

The story of a city. Written and produced by D. G. Bridson , with music specially composed - by Roy Shields
This programme, prepared in collaboration with the National Broadcasting Com. pany, was originally broadcast in America over the Red Network of NBC. This was broadcast in this country last November.

Conducted by Clarence Raybould

Megan Lloyd George , M.P.

A Saturday-night entertainment featuring famous stars of Variety, music, and drama : Norman Long , Albert Sandler , Jessie Matthews , Eric Barker , and Tommy Handley , and John Mills (by permission of Gains-borough Pictures (1928), Ltd.). Revbe Chorus, and augmented BBC Revue Orchestra, conducted by Charles Groves. Producers, John Sharman and Harry S. Pepper.

by Rudolf Besier and May Edgiaton, with Fay Compton in her original part of Mary Carlton. .. Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe. Produced by Peter Creswell
The play opens with a prologue in a dressing-room in Sir John Carlton 's house in Porchester Terrace in 1922, flashes back to Mary's bedroom in her parents' house at Blackheath in 1865, then to the living room of a wooden shack in Wyoming in 1869, forward again to the drawing-room of the Porchester Terrace house in 1888, and finishes at the same time and place p where it began.

A form for Compline

Story for bedtime : ' Ma's Bridgehead ', by James McCormick , read by E. A. Naden. (Previously broadcast on August 25, 1943) '

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra