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John Betjeman introduces the last in a series of eleven weekly programmes
St. John's College, Cambridge
Choir of St. John's College
Organist and Master of the Choristers, George Guest
Jonathan Bielby (organ scholar)
Series produced by Sebastian Forbes

(Next Sunday: Britain's Cathedrals and their Music)

A request programme ol gramophone records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by Julian Herbage
Britten's War Requiem by Alec Robertson
Musical Profile: Ernest Lush by Cedric Wallis
Rossini's early comic operas by Julian Budden
Heinrich Schutz and Henry Purcell book review by Stanley Sadie

played by JOHN OGDON
Second in a weekly series

Opera in one act by Rossini
Libretto by GIUSEPPE FOPPA
English version by GEOFFREY DUNN
Narrator. GEORGE HAGAN
VINCENT BILLLNGTON (harpsichord'
BBC NORTHERN
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Leader, Reginald Steaa
Conducted by JOHN MATHESON
Produced by Geoffrey Dunn
Trie action takes place In the country home of Monsieur Montdor near Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century
Donald Pilley broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company; Georgetta Psaros by permission ot the General Administrator. Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Henryk Szeryng with ERNEST Lush (piano)
The last of four programmes
Broadcast on August 15. 1965

Cantatas 1, 2, and 3 Conducted by Benjamin Britten
Heather Harper (soprano) Helen Watts (contralto) Peter Pears (tenor)
Thomas Hemsley (baritone)
Ambrosian Singers
Continue
KEITH HARVEY (cello)
PHILIP LEDGER (harpsichord) ALAN BROWN (organ)
English Chamber Orchestra Leader. Emanuel Hurwitz
Recorded at a public performance given in Long Melford Parish Church on September 2

played by CHARLES SPINKS (harpsichord)

Quartet in E minor. Op. 59
No. 2 played by the GUARNERI STRING QUARTET Arnold Steinhardt (violin) John Dalley (violin) Michael Tree (viola) David Soyer (cello)
Broadcast on June 8

A series of nine talks In which scientists of various disciplines talk about concepts crucial to their field of study
4: Genes and Genetic Coding by DR. SYDNEY BRENNER Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology. Cambridge
Biologists ask two questions about living organisms - how does it work, and how does it evolve?
What passes from one generation to the next in a living organism is not the organism itself, but a description of it encoded at the molecular level in genes. Every now and then this description becomes altered. Evolution depends on such chance events.
Second broadcast
The Quantum in Chemistry, by Professor John Murrell : November 5

A romantic opera in three acts by Wagner sung in German
Cast:
Saxon, Thuringian. and Brabantine nobles. Ladies of Honour, attendants
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA of THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
Chorus-Master. Wilhelm Pltl
Conductor, RUDOLF KEMPE
Producer, Wolfgang Wagner
The action takes place in Antwerp in the first half of the tenth century
ACT 1
A meadow on the banks of the cheldt

by Paul Claudel
1868-1955
Selections from his own translations arranged and introduced bf EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH
* read in English by EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH and HUGH DICKSON and in French by ANDRÉ MARANNE

ACT 2
The citadel at Antwerp

of the Soviet Union
It is extremely difficult to disentangle the real significance of the Russian Revolution from the mythologies of both its enemies and its apologists. In this group of three lectures four experts in this field attempt a dispassionate evaluation of what is perhaps the most important event in modem history.
2: The Significance of the Russian Revolution by E. H. CARR
Professor Carr is concerned not so much with the ten days that shook the world in 1917 as with the world-shaking process of which they were the expression.' And he feels that in 1917 the era of the French Revolution ended and a new revolutionary epoch began.
November 5: L. P. Schapiro on The Impact of the Revolution
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Act 3
Scene 1 The bridal chamber
Scene 2 The banks of the Scheldt
Recording of a performance at the 1967 Bayreuth Festival, made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio