Michael Berkeley's guest today is the distinguished football commentator Gerald Sinstadt, who began his career with the British Forces Broadcasting Service after the Second World War. In the course of a radio and TV broadcasting career which has lasted more than 50 years he has worked on almost every World Cup final since 1954. Music is his other great passion, and his choices today include operatic excerpts by Verdi, Lalo and Britten, songs by Mahler and Tchaikovsky, a Haydn symphony and a Beethoven string quartet.

(Repeated tomorrow at 6.30pm)