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DOWLAND
Dowland's First Galliard; Mrs. Vaux's Gigge; The Earl of Derby, his Galliard; Semper Dowland , semper dolens
JULIAN BREAM (lute)
8.17* Flow my tears; Now cease my wandering eyes; I saw my lady weep; Come again, sweet love doth now invite; In darkness let me dwell
AUSTIN MISKELL (tenor) HERMANN LEEB (lute)
8.36* Lachrimae Pavans
VIOLS OF THE SCHOLA CANTORUM BASILIENSIS with EUGEN MÜLLER-DOMBOIS (lute) gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Semper Dowland
Tenor:
Austin Miskell
Tenor:
Hermann Leeb

Hail, bright Cecilia (A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1692)
APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
ALFRED DELLER (counter-tenor) PETER SALMON (counter-tenor) WILFRED BROWN (tenor)
MAURICE BEVAN (baritone) JOHN FROST (bass)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
KALMAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT

Contributors

Soprano:
Alfred Deller
Tenor:
Wilfred Brown
Baritone:
Maurice Bevan
Conducted By:
Sir Michael Tippett

String Quartet No. 2, in F sharp
AMADEUS QUARTET
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
10.25* Concerto for Orchestra
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by COLIN DAVIS gramophone records

Contributors

Violin:
Norbert Brainin
Viola:
Peter Schidlof
Cello:
Martin Lovett
Conducted By:
Colin Davis

Introduced by Bryon Butler
Directed by John Fenton and Angus Mackay

12.30 Your Afternoon Weather Forecast
followed by Sports Parade

1.0 Prize Quiz
In which premium bonds are awarded for answering a few sporting questions

1.10 Who's for a Medal?
Just before the last of the competitors leave for the Mexico Olympics Robert Hudson puts this question to a team of radio commentators
Produced by Michael Tuke-Hastings

1.40 Meet Beryl Burton
John Burns talks to Beryl Burton, seven times a world cycling champion

Motor Racing
The Le Mans 24-Hour Race for Sports Cars
2.0 Preview and tour of the circuit with one of the competing drivers by Robin Richards and Eric Tobitt
Broadcast by arrangement with French Radio
3.10 The start
3.45; 4.50 Progress reports

Racing
2.25 The Blue Seal Stakes
For two-year-old fillies only run over one mile
2.55 The Golden Gates Nursery Stakes
A handicap for two-year-olds only run over six furlongs
3.30 The Queen Elizabeth II Stakes
For three-year-olds and upwards run over the Old Mile
Commentary by Peter Bromley
Summaries by Roger Mortimer From Ascot Heath
4.55 Full Racing Results

2.40 Talking Sport
Topics and personalities in the news

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

5.0 Sports Report
Including reports on today's leading matches

Today's Timetable
12.30 Weather
12.33 Sports Parade
1.0 Prize Quiz
1.10 Who's for a medal?
1.40 Meet Beryl Burton
2.0 Le Mans
2.2S Racing
2.40 Talking Sport
2.55 Racing
3.10 Le Mans
3.30 Racing
3.45 Le Mans
3.50 Association Football
4.42 Association Football Results
4.50 Le Mans
4.55 Racing Results
5.0 Sports Report
Timings mail be altered by events

Contributors

Introduced By:
Bryon Butler
Directed By:
John Fenton
Directed By:
Angus MacKay
Produced By:
Michael Tuke-Hastings
Unknown:
Beryl Burton
Talks:
John Burns
Unknown:
Robin Richards
Commentary By:
Peter Bromley
Unknown:
Roger Mortimer
Commentary By:
Alan Clarke
Commentary By:
Simon Smith

An opera in a prologue and four acts based on Pushkin's dramatic chronicle and Karamzin's History of the Russian Empire
Words and music by Mussorgsky revised and orchestrated by RlMSKY-KORSAKOV with additional orchestration by IPPOLITOV-IVANOV sung in Russian
Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE
BOLSHOI THEATRE: conducted by ALEXANDER MELIK-PASHAEV
Recording made available by courtesy of Soviet Radio
Time: between 1598 and 1605 PROLOGUE
Scene 1: The courtyard of the Novodtevichy Monastery. Moscow
Scene 2: A square In the Kremlin
7.27' ACT 1
Scene 1: A cell In the Chudov
Monastery
Scene 2: An inn near the Lithuanian border

by JAMES H. BILLINGTON
Professor of History Princeton University
The opera Boris Godunov has its own significance as a document in revolutionary history. Professor Billinston, who has made a special study of the history of Russian culture. and has lived in the U.S.S.R., reflects upon the opera's sisnificance from this standpoint. Recorded In the BBC's Now York studios

Contributors

Unknown:
James H. Billington
Unknown:
Boris Godunov

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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