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BERUN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by RAFAEL KUBELIK
WILLIAM LINCER (viola); NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
9.0 News; Weather BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGEN JOCHUM
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM

Contributors

Viola:
William Lincer
Conducted By:
Leonard Bernstein
Conducted By:
Eugen Jochum
Conducted By:
Daniel Barenboim

Introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON Produced by Geoff Dobson
12.30 SPORTS SERVICE
LINE-UP
Including Weather Forecast and the latest sports news
CRICKET
12.35; 1.40; 2.10; 2.45; 3.20;
3.50; 4.45; 5.0
Gillette Cup First Round
Middlesex v. Buckinghamshire at Lord's
Commentaries by MAURICE EDELSTON
Northamptonshire v. Glamorgan at Northampton
Commentaries by PETER CRANMER and news of today's other matches
1.5 LUNCH-BREAK
Previews of today's Soccer Inter. nationals, Racing at Kempton Park, The Barbarians' Rugby Union match in South Africa, the Windsor Horse Show, the Davis Cup, tomorrow's Racing at Longchamp, and the latest news of the Daily Mail Transatlantic Air Race and Cricket lunchtime scores
RACING
1.55 The Racegoers' Club (Qualifying) Champion
Apprentice Stakes (Handicap)
Over 1¼ miles
2.30 The Mark Lane Jubilee Stakes (Handicap) Over 11/4 miles
3.5 The Minting Stakes Over 5 furlongs
3.35 The Mumtaz Mahal Stakes Over 5 furlongs
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY
From Kempton Park
4.50 Full Racing Results and PETER BROMLEY'S review of the day at Kempton Park
SHOW JUMPING
2.45 : 3.20 : 3.50
Royal Windsor Horse Show Reports by TONY PRESTON
From Home Park. Windsor Castle
LAWN TENNIS
3.20 : 5.0
The Davis Cup
European Zone-First Round Switzerland v. Great Britain
Reports by FRED PERRY , telephoned from Zurich, Switzerland
4.0 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL N. Ireland v. Wales
See panel below
5.0 RUGBY UNION Barbarians' Tour of South Africa
Commentary on the closing stages of the match against Quaggas at Ellis Park, Johannesburg by CHARLES FORTUNE and CHICK HENDERSON
Broadcast by arrangement with the South African Broadcasting Corporation
5.20 THE ' DAILY MAIL
TRANSATLANTIC AIR RACE
With one day left to go, our team of commentators bring the latest news of the competitors.
From the Post Office Tower. London
TODAY'S TIMETABLE
12.30 Sports Service Line-Up
12.35 Cricket
1.5 Lunch-Break
1.40 Cricket
1.55 Racing
2.10 Cricket
2.30 Racing
2.45 Cricket and Show Jumping
3.5 Racing
3.20 Cricket, Lawn Tennis. and Show Jumping
3.35 Racing
3.50 Cricket and Show Jumping
4.0 Association Football
4.45 Cricket
4.50 Racing Results
5.0 Rugby Union
5.20 Air Race, Cricket, and Lawn
Tennis
Timings may be altered by events

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Johnston
Produced By:
Geoff Dobson
Unknown:
Peter Cranmer
Commentary By:
Peter Bromley
Unknown:
Fred Perry

DENIS STEVENS , Professor of Music at Columbia University, New York, assesses the achievement of Tallis and his contribution to the development of English music. He talks in particular about the Lauo Church Music.

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Stevens

by Nesta Pain with Robert Hardy
Michael Hordern , Lee Montague A reconstruction of events at the Castle of Northampton when Thomas Becket , Archbishop of Canterbury, was called to answer a charge that he had failed to perform a feudal duty to the Kins. The programme is based on the accounts of eye-witnesses and the letters of Becket and Gilbert Foliot.
Produced by NESTA PAIN
Michael Hordern is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Nesta Pain
Unknown:
Robert Hardy
Unknown:
Michael Hordern
Unknown:
Lee Montague
Unknown:
Thomas Becket
Unknown:
Gilbert Foliot.
Produced By:
Nesta Pain
Produced By:
Michael Hordern
The Earl of Leicester:
Michael Spice
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury:
Lee Montague
Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London:
Michael Hordern
Herbert of Bosham, Becket's confessor:
Michael Deacon
King Henry:
Robert Hardy
Bishop:Henry of Winchester:
Rolf Lefebvre
Bishop:Roger of York:
James Thomason
Bishop:Hilary of Chichester:
Brian Badcoe
Bishop:Bartholomew of Exeter:
Ralph Truman
Bishop:Robert of Hereford:
John Bentley
William FitzStephen, Becket's chaplain:
Peter Baldwin

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Written between 1382 and 1387 The fourth of twelve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVILL COGHILL
Produced by Raymond Raikes
Fifth reading: May 18

Contributors

Unknown:
Geoffrey Chaucer
Translation By:
Professor Nevill Coghill
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Chaucer:
Marius Coring
Troilus:
Alexander John
Criseyde:
Elizabeth Morgan
Pandarus:
Gabriel Woolf
Deiphebus:
Francis de Wolff

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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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