With Susan Sharpe.

1.00 BBC Lunchtime Concert from St John's, Smith Square, London.
Chilingirian Quartet

Gunther Schuller String Quartet No 3

Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor, Op 80

(Repeated next Sunday at 6.30pm)

2.00 Schools
The Song Tree
2.15 Storybox
2.25 Let's Move
2.45 First Steps in Drama

3.00 The BBC Orchestras: BBC National Orchestra of Wales
Conductor Barry Wordsworth
Dong-Suk Kang (violin)

Saint-Saens Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor; Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

(Rpt)

3.45 The Organ: Musical Instrument or Agent of God?
In the second of three programmes exploring religious and secular music for the organ, Christopher Bowers-Broadbent introduces works by luminaries of 20th-century British music: Vaughan Williams, Howells, Whitlock, Milner, McCabe, Bridge and Britten, performed by Kevin Bowyer.
(A Magenta Music international production)

4.30 Misterioso
The third of six programmes about Thelonious Monk. Ian Carr moves on to the early fifties: Monk is still ignored and desperately short of work, but he gets a new record contract with the independent label Prestige.