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Piano Recital by Charles Rosen from
St. George's Hall
Debussy
Pour les sonorités opposées
(Etudes, Book 21)
Pour les quartes (Etudes, Book 1)
Et ]a lune descend sur la temple qui fut; Poissons d'or (Images. Series 2)
11.30* Interval
11.50* Carnaval. Op. 9 ... Schumann
See page 43
During the Interval
†CHARLES ROSEN discusses some of the music in his piano recital

Introduced by PETER Jones from the Empire Stadium. Wembley
Directed by Jacob de Vrics
12.30 SPORTS SERVICE
LINE-UP
Including your afternoon's Weather Forecast and previews of the F.A Cup Final, the Scottish F.A. Cup Final, racing at Sandown Park. the day's Rugby Union, and the Italian Lawn Tennis Championships in Rome.
CRICKET
12.50 : 2.10 : 5.5 : 5.40
M.C.C. v. Yorkshire
BRIAN JOHNSTON is at Lords for the traditional opening match of the season between the M.C.C. and the County Champions
1.30 Lunchtime at Lord's
BRIAN JOHNSTON gives the lunchtime score, and talks to DONALD CARR , Assistant Secretary, M.C.C. BRIAN CLOSE , Captain of Yorkshire, and CRAWFORD WHITE, Cricket Correspondent of the Daily Express, about the season ahead
RACING
1.15 The Sandown Park Two-Year-Old Stakes
Over five furlongs
1.55 The Whitbread Gold Cup A handicap steeplechase
2.35 The Esher Cup Over one mile
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY From Sandown Park
4.50' Results so far and an assessment of the day's racing at Sandown Park by PETER BROMLEY , who also talks to ROGER MORTIMER about the prospects for the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket
THE CUP FINALS
2.50 The F.A. Cup Final
4.45* The Scottish F.A. Cup See below
5.15 RUGBY UNION RESULTS and a review by Eric York
5.35 LAWN TENNIS The Italian Open
Lawn Tennis Championships Report from Rome
TODAY'S TIMETABLE
12.30 Sports Service Line-Up
12.50 Cricket. 1.15 Raclni;
1.30 Cricket. 1.55 Racing
2.10 Cricket. 2.35 Racing
2.50 The F.A. Cup Final
4.45* The Scottish F.A. Cup Final
4.50* Racing Results. 5.5 Cricket
5.15 Rugby Union Results
5.20 F.A. Cup Final
5.35 Lawn Tennis. 5.40 Cricket
Timings may be altered by events

by Liszt and Bartok played by GYÖRGY SANDOR

by Ian Grimble
Was Joan of Arc a witch? A victim certainly, but whose? Dr. Grimble takes a fresh look at the abundant documentation on Joan and her Voices.
Produced by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.40

played by the Amadeus String Quartet Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin) Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello) with GERVASE DE PEYER (clarinet)
From the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London
Part 1 ⓢ

John Sparrow
Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
Second of three weekly talks

Part 2 0
Seventh of eight public concerts promoted by the Third Programme
May 24: Amadeus String Quartet, with Cecil Aronowitz (viola) and William Pleeth (cello). Haydn, Quartets Op. 76 No. 5 and Op. 77 No. 2; BraTrms, Sextet Op. 36

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Written between 1382 and 1387 The second of twerve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL with Marius Goring as Chaucer ALEXANDER JOHN as Troilus ELIZABETH MORGAN as Criseyde GABRIEL WOOLF as Pandarus
Produced by Raymond Raikes 0

tDEBEN BHATTACHARYA presents some of the parallels as well as some of the differences both in the instruments and in the melodic organisation of the music of the Arab Maqam , the Persian Dastgah, and the Raga followed by an interlude at 10.55