and Home Service programme summary

Exercises for men :
Coleman Smith
Exercises for women' : May Brown
At the pianos, Barbara Laing and Lena Blackman.

GOUNOD
(1818-1893). Every morning this week gramophone records of his music will be heard at this time... Today : Excerpts from ' Romeo and Juliet'

Short morning prayers

Talk by a woman shift-worker

a poet of the Eighteenth Century : talk by Augustus Muir

Mixture of records. The high spot is Borodin's ' In the Steppes of Central Asia', played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Albert Coates

News commentary

from page 117 of "New Every Morning" and page 62 of "Each Returning Day". Come, O thou traveller unknown; Psalm 85; May the grace of Christ our Saviour

Gramophone records of some outstanding musical plays

11.0 SINGING TOGETHER, by Herbert Wiseman
Song of the Music-Makers (Martin
Shaw)
.Early one morning (English song)
Wait for the waggon (American song)
11.20 SCIENCE AND GARDENING ' Fight that Weed', by Alan Peacock
11.40 FOR UNDER-SEVENS.Let's join in '-another Brer. Rabbit story : ' Brer Rabbit Goes Fishing'
12.0 THE LIFE AND TEACHING OF JESUS CHRIST. ' The Contemporary Background of the Original Christianity', ', by the Rev. C. W. Dugmore

Arthur Lucan ' and Kitty, McShane, on gramophone records
Old Mother Riley takes her medicine ; Old Mother Riley in the Police Force

ENSA show for war-workers, from a factory canteen. Michael Howard (by permission of the Windmill Theatre) introduces Jack Leon and his Dance Orchestra, with Gloria and Alan Kane , and, as guest artists, Raymond Newell and Elisabeth Welch

Talk by Group Captain C. W. Hill

1.40 FOR RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland). ' At our Village', ', by John R. Allan. ' Meldron Farm ' (iii): The Young Farmers' Club visits Meldron Farm with the County Organiser, Agricultural College and Research Station
2.0 Interval music
2.5 STORIES FROM WORLD HISTORY.
1 The conquest of the air. 1-
* The Balloon by Rhoda Power : how the two Montgolfiers experimented with balloons filled with hot air ; their first unusual passengers ; the ascent of De Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes
2.25 Interval music
2.30 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT. BBC Northern Orchestra, conducted by Ronald Biggs. Stephen Wearing (piano)

Stanley Black and the Dance Orchestra

Symphony. No. 9 played by the Vienna Phil harmonic Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter.

' Robert the Bruoe before Bannockbum', from Sir Walter Scott 's ' The Lord of the Isles', ', and ' The Heart of the Bruce', William Edmonstoune Aytoun 's ballad : read by C. R. M. Brookes

10 —' Y Milwr '. Dwy stori : un gan Caradog Pritchard , a'r Hall gan Alun Llewelyn Williams. (Stories in Welsh)

5.20 ' Stubbington Manor', by Elizabeth Gorell , a sequel to ' Bitty and the Bears', told by Elizabeth. No. 1—' The Start'
A recital of Spring songs, by Norman Stone
5.45 ' A Desperate Chance ' : the story of a family of partridges by Kenneth Richmond

National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted for broadcasting by Peggy Wells , and produced by Martyn C. Webster. Episode 4-' Shapes Long Dead '

7.0 SYMPHONY CONCERT Part 1
BBC Symphony Orchestra (Leader, Paul Beard ) : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult From the Royal Albert Hall, London

Lord Elton on G. K. Chesterton

Part 2
Orator, Valentine Dyall. BBC Choral Society (chorus-master, Leslie Woodgate ). BBC Symphony Orchestra (leader, Paul Beard ) : conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Morning Heroes (A Symphony, for orchestra, chorus, and orator)
Arthur Bliss
From the Royal Albert Hall , London

- but it's at 9.20! with Ted Andrews and Barbara; 'Michael Starr Investigates' - a weekly detective problem featuring Henry Oscar, written by Francis Durbridge; 'Many Happy Returns', a musical birthday greeting; Doris Hare; 'Puzzle Corner'; Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford on 'Things in General', written by Henrik Edge
'Take the Stand', Frederick Burtwell cross-examines famous artists, by arrangement with Leonard Urry. The Singing Commeres, Revue Chorus, and BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper

Francis Meynell , poet and publisher, is the son of Wilfrid and Alice MeynelL who between them played a great part in the discovery of Thompson, saving him from poverty and obscurity and perhaps premature death. Produced by Stephen Potter. (Recording of the broadcast on December 4, 1942)

(Religious Service in Gaelic)
Salm 34, 1-6 : air fonn Dunfermline Urnuigh
Leughadh : Lucas' 17. 11-21
Salm 57, 1-3, air fonn- Morven
An searmon : An t-Ufr.
Alasdair Caimbeul
Salm 106, 1-4, air fonn St. Paul Am) beannachadh

and his Waldorf Astoria Orchestra. (Gramophone records)