and Weather forecast

For the next ten weeks Saturday Concert will end with a major choral and orchestral work Part 1
PALESTRINA
0 Mass: Ecce ego Joannes
CHOIR OF THE
CARMELITE PRIORY, LONDON
Conducted by John MCCARTHY gramophone record

Piano Trio in C major (K. 548)
MARLBORO TRIO
Michael Tree (violin) David Soyer (cello)
Mitchell Andrews (piano)
Broadcast on December 23, 1966

and Weather forecast

Part 2
MOZART
Quintet in G minor (K.516)
AMADEUS STRING QUARTET with CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola)
Broadcast on December 9. 1967

Mass in D major (Missa Solemnis)
ELISABETH SÖDERSTROM (soprano; MARGA HÖFFGEN (contralto) WALDEMAR KMENTT (tenor) MARTTI TALVELA (bass) NEW PHILHARMONIA
CHORUS AND Orchestra
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER gramophone records

Introduced by John Lade
Building a Library: The music of Weber by JOHN WARRACK
Recent Records of Concertos reviewed by JOAN CHISSELL

Introduced by Steve Race

Introduced by Michael de Morgan
Directed by Geoff Dobson

12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast direct from the London Weather Centre followed by Sports Parade

1.0 Lawn Tennis
Players, Please!
A discussion about the 'New Look' at Wimbledon and some of the wider implications of the decision by the Lawn Tennis Association to abolish amateur and professional distinctions and to declare British Tennis 'Open'
Chairman, Maurice Edelston

1.25 Sports Service 1968
A look forward to our plans for covering the major sporting events during the coming months

Racing
1.40 The Spring Handicap Hurdle Race
For four-year-olds and upwards run over two miles
2.10 The Fairmile Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards run over three miles and about 119 yards
2.45 The Stones Ginger Wine Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards run over two miles. four furlongs and about 69 yards
Commentary by Peter Bromley with summaries by Roger Mortimer
From Sandown Park
4.53 Racing Results

Rugby Union International
England v. Ireland (Kick-Off 2.45)
1.55 Preview
3.5 Commentary by Robert Hudson and Sammy Walker with summaries and comments from Peter Yarranton
From Twickenham

2.30 Cricket
Second Test Match
West Indies v. England at Kingston, Jamaica
Report by Brian Johnston on the second day's play

Association Football
3.50 Commentary by Alan Clarke and Simon Smith on the second half of one of today's English League games
4.42* Results as they come In, direct from the BBC Sports Room

5.0 Sports Report
Produced by Angus Mackay
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50

12.30 Weather
12.33 Sports Parade
1.0 Lawn Tennis Discussion
1.25 Outside Broadcast Plans for 1968
1.40 Racing
1.55 Rugby Union Preview
2.10 Racing
2.30 Cricket
2.45 Racing
3.5 Rugby Union
3.50 Association Football
4.42* Association Football Results
4.53 Racing Results
5.0 Sports Report
Timings may be altered by events

Music drama in three acts by Wagner
English translation by FREDERICK JAMESON
Revised by Norman Feasey and Gordon Kember
From Sadler 's Wells Theatre
Cast in order of singing:
Citizens and ladies of the guilds, journeymen, apprentices
SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS Chorus-Masters
John Barker and Hazel Vivienne
SADLER's Wells ORCHESTRA Leader, Barry Collins
Conducted by Reginald Goodall
Produced by GLEN BYAM SHAW and JOHN BLATCHLEY
The action takes place In Nuremberg about the middle of the sixteenth century.
ACT 1
The interior of St. Catherine's church

The first of William Blake's Prophetic Books
Read by C. Day Lewis

ACT 2
A street with the houses of Pogner and Sachs

MARCUS CUNLIFFE
Professor of American Studies at the University of Sussex talks to
ANTHONY LEWIS
Chief London Correspondent of the New York Times
The American Army used to be tiny. Today it is colossal: almost half a million American troops arf now fighting a gruelling and protracted war in Vietnam. At home, ex-mihtary men hold key jobs in civilian life and many projects of the national economy are buttressed by military requirements. What are the effects of this new situation on American society?
Introduced by Daniel Snowman
American Defence, the Mc-Namara years-and after: discussion between Brian Beed ham and Alastair Buchan : February 29

ACT 3
Scene 1 The workshop of Hans Sachs
Scene 2 An open meadow on the river Pegnltz