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Weber
Songs:
Keine Lust ohn' treues Lleben: Das Madchen an das erste Schneeglockchen: Umsonst; Sehnsucht; Elfenlied; Der Sanger und der Mater; An Ste
Piano Sonata No. 2, in A flat
KENNETH BOWEN (tenor) PAUL HAMBURGER (piano)
MICHAEL ROLL (piano)
Sonata broadcast August 26. 1967

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DARTINGTON STRING QUARTET Colin Sauer (violin) Peter Carter (violin) Keith Lovell (viola)
Michael Evans (cello)
The quartet broadcast on March 3

HALLÉ ORCHESTRA
Leader, Martin Milner
Conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD
1.0 News; Weather

Conductor, TERENCE LOVETT

Conducted by GIJSBERT NIEUWLAND
Recording made available by cour. tesy of Netherlands Radio Union

Opera in two acts
Music by Puccini
Libretto by GIUSEPPE GIACOSA and LUIGI ILLICA
Sung in Italian: gramophone records
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF the OPERA HOUSE, ROME
Conducted by Sir John Barbirolll
The action takes place in the early 1900s. at Nagasaki. Japan
ACT 1
A house with a garden overlooking the harbour
3.57* Interval
4.26* ACT 2
Inside Butterfly's house
Third of five weekly broadcasts ot operas by Puccini, with chamber music by Bocchertni during the Intervals between the acts. Botll composers were born in Lucca.
The Girl of the Golden West
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During the Interval (at 3.57*)
BOCCHERINI: String Quintets
C minor, Op. 48 No. 1 D major, Op 50 No. 2
AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET with BRUNO SCHRECKER (cello)

Mladi (Youth)
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE OF the PRAGUE CONSERVATORY PROFESSORS
Recording made available by courtesy of Czechoslovak Radio

EVAN SENIOR looks at some non-broadcast musical events taking place in the West. Wales, and Scotland during the next seven days

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A series of four discussions
Led by Brian Beedham of The Economist
Each discussion, with a different main speaker, will be broadcast from a different university
1: The World of the Seventies From Whitworth Hall, Manchester University
Main Speaker
ANDREW SHONFIELD
Director of Studies, Royal Institute of International Affairs
DR. CORAL BELL
Reader in International Relations, London School of Economics
ANTHONY LEWIS of The New York Times
ANGUS MAUDE, M.P.
BRIAN WALDEN, M.P.
Produced by George Fischer
British Politics in the Seventies, from the Cambridge Union. Main speaker, David Watt , Political Editor of ' The Financial Times': May 23

JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor) WILFRED BROWN (tenor) DUNCAN ROBERTSON (tenor) ALAN LUMSDEN (sackbut) DAVID MUNROW (shawm and recorder) MARY REMNANT (medieval fiddle, chamber organ, and rebec) MARYLIN WAILES (gothic harp. portative organ, bell-chimes) Directed by GILBERT REANEY

From the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, London

Part 1
The programme consists of music, nearly all by anonymous composers from the eleventh century to the beginning of the fifteenth including in Part 1
Crist and Sainte Marie (Goartc) and the thirteenth-century Alleluia: Nativitas Part 2 begins with the Anglo-French song Bien deust chanter and ends with the fifteenth-century Gloria, laus et honor followed by the Gloria (Pycard)

tby GRAHAM HOUGH
Mr. Hough, Professor of English at Cambridge University, believes that intellectuals are failing to fulfil their proper role as a committed intelligentsia.

Part 2

Three programmes on the art of literary assault
1: The Elizabethans
Selected and introduced by D G. BRIDSON
Readers: ROBERT EDDISON and ALAN WHEATLEY
The Augustans: May 21
Robert Eddlson Is In ' The Importance of Being Earnest ' at the Hay-market Theatre, London followed by an interlude at 10.55