6.30 Venice: Portrait of a City 'They little thought, who first drove the stakes into the sand, and strewed the ocean reeds for their rest, that their children were to be the princes of that ocean, and their palaces its pride.' (Ruskin) First of four programmes presented by BRIAN ROBB , Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art
7.* pm The Sounds of Music 9: Later Ensembles
STEPHEN WALSH describes the emergence of the standard classical ensembles and orchestra, their expansion by the romantic composers and diversification in the present century. Producer DAVID EPPS
(A supplementary programme next Monday on Radio 3)