With Susan Sharpe.

1.00 Airs and Affections
The second of four programmes of highlights of late-Baroque opera features examples of the genre written for Paris and Versailles, employing gods, goddesses, monsters and marsh nymphs. Nicholas Anderson introduces excerpts from Campra's Idomenee, Rameau's Platée and Mondonvllle's Titon et I'Aurore.
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2.00 Schools
Radio Showcase
2.05 In the News
2.25 Something to Think About
2.40 Music Workshop

3.00 Ragtime
Works by Debussy and Stravinsky. Discs

The Fifties
3.10 Made for TV
Five landmark television programmes of the fifties. Today, Monitor, the BBC arts programme introduced by Huw Wheldon. Melvyn Bragg looks back at an edition on Robert Graves in Majorca.
Next programme tonight 9.25pm

3.15 Vale of Glamorgan Festival 1995
Susan Sharpe introduces the opening concert from last year's festival, given in August at the Coal Exchange in Cardiff, with contributions from composers and artists in the concert, and including the UK premiere of Michael Torke's saxophone concerto.
John Harle (saxophone) Richard McMahon (piano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conductor Martyn Brabbins
Michael Torke Ash
Michael Nyman Suite: The Piano
Michael Torke Saxophone Concerto (first UK performance)
Martin Butler On the Rocks
Gavin Bryars The Green Ray