and Home Service programme summary

Exercises for men : Coleman Smith
Exercises for women : May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Andrew Bryson.

BENJAMIN BRITTEN and WILLIAM WALTON
Gramophone records of Britten's ' Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo ' and ' Hymn to St. Cecilia '

Rev. John G. Williams , of the BBC Religious Broadcasting Department

" Mrs Buggins ' (Mabel Constanduros )

and the Dance Orchestra, with Irene King , Ken Beaumont , and Sid Buckman

D. B. Lewis , who has spent over forty years in the coal mines of South Wales, talks to the new mining recruits

on gramophone records

Introductory music
Prayer
Hail to the Lord's anointed (A. and M. 219, omitting v. 3; S.P. 87, vv. 1, 3, 6; C.H. 154, vv. 1, 3, 5: Tune, Cruger)
Interlude
Prayers: The Prayer of Praise; the Lord's Prayer
Rejoice, the Lord is King (A. and M. 202; S.P. 632; C.H. 135, omitting v. 5: Tune, Gopsal)
Blessing
Closing music

Andante larghetto; Allegro ; Allegro ma non troppo (Concerto grosso, Op. 6, No. 2) played by the Boyd Neel String Orchestra, conducted by Boyd Neel . (Gramophone records)

News commentary

from page 89 of ' New Every Morning ' and page 40 of Each Returning Day '. God of mercy, God of grace ; Te Deum , vv. 1-21 ; Thou whose almighty word

BBC Midland Light Orchestra: conductor, Rae Jenkins.

11.0 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR INFANTS : Ann Driver
11.20 SENIOR HISTORY I. European Heritage : France remembers-the Marseillaise (1789-1790) : how revolutionary France took up the marching song of a young lieutenant, Rouget de Lisle , and made it her national anthem: by Louis Levy
11.40 Interval music
11.45 PHYSICAL TRAINING (for use in classrooms), by Coleman Smith.

Conducted by Louis Cohen

Lunch-time entertainment for factory-workers, from a factory somewhere in Scotland

Talk by G. Geoffrey Smith , managing editor of ' Flight'

Gramophone records of his songs and piano music
Valse : La plus que lente : Ania Dorfmann
(piano)
Reflets dans l'eau : Eileen Joyce (piano) Ballade des femmes de Paris :
Charles Panzera (baritone)
Two Rondels of Charles d'Orleans :
Pierre Bernac (tenor)
Jardins sous la pluie : Moiseiwitsch (piano)

1.50 i YSGOLION CYMRU (For Welsh schools). Rhigwm a Chan ' : cyfres gan Huldah Bassett i blant tua 7 oed 11— ' Gwers Adolygiadol'
2.10 HOW THINGS BEGAN: 'More and More Men', written by Rhoda Power : cultivated plants, farm animals, and greater security made possible larger settlements and closer touch between them ; the exchange of ideas and of goods set the stage for a further step forward
2.30 Interval music
2.35 SENIOR ENGLISH II. Dramatic Reading : ' The Choir's Adventures ', from ' Under the Greenwood Tree', by Thomas Hardy , adapted by Silvia Goodall

The New Organolians, with Jimmy Leach at the piano.

from Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Versicles and Responses Psalm 138
First Lesson : Numbers 12, w. 1-9 Magnificat (Ireland in C)
Second Lesson : Titus 2, vv. 9-15 Nunc dimittis (Ireland in C) Creed and Collects
Te lucis ante terminum (Balfour Gardiner ) Prayers
Praise to the Holiest (E.H. 471) Organist, Thomas Armstrong

from the Winter Gardens, Droitwich Spa, with Isabelita Alonso (soprano), Eddie Molloy , from the R.A.F. ' Gang Show ', and dance music played by Vernon Adcock and his Aristocrats. Produced by Jacques Brown

Talk by Petty Officer A. Francis -Smith
H.M.S. Breconshire was the only ship of her kind in the British Navy. The record of her journey to and from Malta, in the teeth of the enemy, with food and munitions, and of her glorious end, is one of the most exciting stories in the annals of the Fleet.

(Welsh Children's Hour). 'Hwb i'r Galon ' : rhaglen ysgafn gan ' Bois y Frenni ', a stori ddigri am y Band gan Jacob Davies

' The Goose Girl ' : story by Berta Lawrence , read by Mary O'Farrell
Bee for younger farmers, conducted by Ralph Wightman

National and Regional announcements

Alec Robertson talks about the musical architecture and meaning of Wagner's Preludes to the first acts of ' Lohengrin ' and ' The Master-singers '. Illustrations on the piano and on gramophone records

Questions asked and answers illustrated in outside broadcasts from places of interest : 3-Making a newsreel at the London studios of British Movietonews, Ltd. Commentator, Gilbert Harding

with his Orchestra

featuring Edgar Bergen , the ventriloquist, and his world-famous dummy Charlie McCarthy , and Ray Noble and his Orchestra

with impromptu answers to listeners' questions : Geoffrey Crowther , ' The Doctor ', Lynda Grier M.A , . (Principal of Lady Margaret Hall , Oxford), Dr. C. E. M. Joad , and Dr. Malcolm Sargent. Question-Master and Chairman, Donald McCullough. (BBC recording)

The BBC looks at the problem. Chairman, G. 0. Slade, K.C. Assessors , Mrs. Doris White and C. S. McCulloch. Witnesses, L. C. Merrion a bricklayer, and A. W. Curton , a builder with a business of his own
The views and experience of traditional builders, master and man, are heard ; can they speed up ?

BBC Midland Light Orchestra : conductor, Rae Jenkins. Heddle Nash (tenor)

Series of talks by C. S. Lewis , Magdalen College, Oxford. 6—' Is Christianity hard or easy ? '

Written and arranged by D. G. Bridson , with the assistance of Hyde Partnow.

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