Exercises for men: Coleman Smith
Exercises for women: May Brown

ELGAR
Every morning this week gramophone records of his music will be heard at this time. Today, his patriotic music

Readings from the Bible

'Oiling the Wheels,' by Ruth Drew

Conductor, William Pethers, with Dora Capey (contralto)

Talk by Dina Dobson

Mixed choice of records, including Handel's Water Music suite (arr. Harty), played by the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent

News commentary

from page 21 of "New Every Morning" and page 48 of "Each Returning Day". The God of love my shepherd is; Psalm 29: St. Luke 5, vv. 27-38; Lord, while for all mankind we pray

and his Rippling Rhythm (on gramophone records)

Calino Custurame (English song) Robin Hood and Little John (Cornish song)
11.20 science AND GARDENING : What do we eat? 1.—' Root and Shoot,' by Alan Peacock.
11.40 MUSIC AND MOVEMENT FOR JUNIORS, by Ann Driver
12.0 noon BIBLE TALKS FOR SIXTH PORMS.
Understanding the Old Testament: ' What has the Old Testament meant to the Jews? '. by Dr. David Daube

(piano), on gramophone records

ENSA show introduced by Bryan Michie. Carroll Gibbons and his Orchestra. Guests, Forsythe, Seamon, and Farrell

Muriel Forbes , just returned from a 5,000-mile tour through France as a war correspondent of the Birmingham Post,' describes her investigations of the food and health position, and gives her impressions of provincial France today. She is introduced by Macdonald Hastings

London Palladium Orchestra, on gramophone records

for RURAL SCHOOLS (Scotland), by John R. Allan : The Quarry '
2.5 WORLD HISTORY. Great stories from the past. 'Two Polish Cities.' 1-Gniezno, and why there is a white eagle on the Polish flag. 2-The legend of the foundation of Cracow
2.30 ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES. ' These musicians that shall play to you ... ': talk by Reginald Jacques on the training, skill, and experience that go to the making of a first-class orchestra, illustrated by well-known players
2.50 MUSIC BROADCAST FOR OLDER PUPILS. Rossini's Overture: ' The Silken Ladder.' (Gramophone records)

Conductor, Charles Groves

under the direction of R.S.M. George Melachrino , with Tommy Handley , Jack Train , and Kay Cavendish. (Recording of a broadcast in the A.E.F. Programme)

A selection of poems on England, read by Laidman Browne , Basil Jones. Molly Rankin , Roger Snowdon , and Rita Vale. Produced by Peter Watts

Victor Silvester and his Ballroom Orchestra

Sgwrs gan Emrys Williams. (Talk in Welsh)

' Destroyer Rescue,' a sea-story by Edward Cranston , told by Ivan Samson , followed by records for St. George's Day
' England's Heritage': talk by Commander Thomas Woodrooffe

National and Regional announcements and Scottish News summary

New and recent fiction, reviewed by V. S. Pritchett

from the Chatham Empire, with Kenway and Young, Freddie Bamberger , and Troise and his Mandoliers

by D. G. Bridson. The lad from Halifax is on the road again and this week visits Rochdale
(The programme is introduced on page 5)

Talk by Clive Bell, writer on art and literature, author of 'Enjoying Pictures,' 'Since Cezanne'.

with Jack Cooper; 'Inspector Wise Hurries,' a new series of detective problems, featuring Edgar Norfolk, written by Mileson Horton; 'With a Star and a Song'; Joyce Grenfell; Richard Murdoch in 'Puzzle Corner'; 'Cliff Gordon entertains'; 'May We Introduce?' (by arrangement with Leonard Urry); interviewer, Ronald Waldman
The Singing Commeres. Revue Chorus, and BBC Variety Orchestra, conducted by Charles Shadwell. Produced by Harry S. Pepper

followed by War Report or a topical talk

A reminiscent and reflective programme for St. George's Day, 1945. Written and produced by Edward Livesey. A picture of the English character and scene described by the voices of Englishmen and women of today, and illustrated by dramatised scenes and by the work of poets and musicians of the past four hundred years.
The people are a fisherman, an industrial designer, a farmer, a mother, a newsboy, a miner, and an escaped prisoner of war. Narrator, Valentine Dyall. Readers, Hermione Hannen, Joan Murray Simpson and John Arlott.
Music, with special arrangements by Francis Collinson, played by the BBC Midland Light Orchestra (conductor, Rae Jenkins). Singers, Bertha Willmott, Robert Irwin, Frederick Woodhouse, Jean Greenbough, the West Birmingham Choral Society, and the Shelton Junior Day School Choir.

at the theatre organ

with Geraldo. his Orchestra, and singers offering hit tunes of today and songs of tomorrow

Tunes and dances referred to in the plays. Margaret Hodsdon (virginals)