New. Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony and Matthias Pintscher 's Hérodiade-Fragmente, based on verse by Mallarme. Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Chorus. Soloists for the setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy are Marisol Montalvo (soprano), Yvonne Naef
(mezzo), Nikolai Schukoff (tenor) and Franz-Josef Selig (bass). Also broadcast live on Radio 3 at 6.30pm.
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1/4. Dramatisation of W Somerset Maugham's First World War spy tales about West End playwright John Ashenden (Alex Jennings ) who is asked to join the Secret Service.
5/7
Smiley pays a call on Jim Prideaux.
More tomorrow at 10.30pm.
Second World
War drama starring Anna Neagle as a Nazi sympathiser.
The lunar probe Smart-1 finishes its mission in September by crashing into the Moon's surface. Patrick Moore talks to project scientist Bernard Foing about its pioneering spacecraft technology. Show more