First of a series of five programmes built round a choice of Britten's music. and in which all Mozart's later string quintets will be heard gramophone records
9.0 The News
9.4 Spring Symphony
Britten JENNIFER VYVYAN (sopranod NOHMA PROCTER (contralto) PETER PEARS (tenor)
CHORUS OF BOYS FROM
EMANUEL SCHOOL. WANDSWORTH Chorus AND ORCHESTRA OF the Royal OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN
Conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone record
9.49* Variations on an original theme in A flat major (D.813)
Schubert EDITH VOGEL and JAMES GIBB (piano duet)
Broadcast on April 13
10.9* Symphony No. 4, in F minor
Tchaikovsky
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by LORIN MAAZEL gramophone record
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library:
Verdi's Rigolctto: Noel Goodwin
Musique Royale : a new series reviewed by STANLEY SADIE
Introduced by Steve Race
Introduced by PETER JONES
Produced by Geoff Dobson
12.30 SPORTS SERVICE
LINE-UP
Including your afternoon's Weather forecast previews of Racing at Kempton Park, the Barbarians' match at Potchefstroom, the latest news of the Agfacolor Film Golf Tournament, the Tour of Britain Cycle Race, and County Cricket matches.
CRICKET
12.55; 2.15; 2.55; 3.30; 3.55)
4.50; 5.20
Commentary on three of today's matches:
DON MOSEY is at Old Trafford for
Lancashire v. Yorkshire
BRIAN JOHNSTON at Lord's for
Middlesex v. Sussex and Roy LAWRENCE at Edgbaston for
Warwickshire v. The West Indies
1.35 LUNCH-BREAK
Previews of tomorrow's Racing in France, the weekend's Hockey in the Isle of Man, and Clay Pigeon Shooting at Waltham Abbey, a look ahead to Monday's Motor Racing and Athletics, and next week's European Cup Final, with the Lunchtime cricket scoreboard and other Sports News
GOLF
2.0; 3.25; 4.20; 5.20 The Agfacolor Film Tournament
Peter THOMSON , alias ' The Melbourne Tiger,' and five times Open Champion, is among the entrants competing for a first prize of ã 750 at Stoke Poges Golf Club, Bucks. TOM SCOTT reports on the play during the final 36 holes.
2.5 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
The England tour of South America
BRYON BUTLER looks at the prospects
RACING
2.40 The Orpheus Stakes
(Handicap)
3.10 The Arabella Stakes
3.40 The Polymelus Stakes
(Handicap)
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY
From Kempton Park
5.10 Full Racing Results and PETER BROMLEY 'S review of the day at Kempton Park
4.25 RUGBY UNION
South African Country Districts v. The Barbarians
Commentary during the second half by CHARLES Fortune and CHICK HENDERSON
From Potchefstroom. South Africa; broadcast by arrangement with the South African Broadcasting Corporation
4.50 CYCLING
Tour of Britain-Milk Race
JOHN BURNS reports on stage one from Worthing to Swindon
5.20 HOCKEY
A report on today's Club Hockey Championship of Great Britain and Ireland from David MORGAN In the Islo of Man
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TODAY'S TIMETABLE
12.30 Sports Service Line-Up
12.55 Cricket
1.35 Lunch-Break
2.0 Golf
2.5 Association Football
2.15 Cricket
2.40 Racing
2.55 Cricket
3.10 Racing
3.25 Golf
3.30 Cricket
3.40 Racing
3.55 Cricket
4.20 Golf
4.25 Rugby Union
4.50 Cricket and Cycling
5.10 Racing Results
5.15 Racing Review
5.20 Cricket. Golf. and Hockey
Timings may be altered by events
by VERDA ERMAN
Broadcast on May 5. 1968
Scottish Gaelic poems from the unique sixteenth-century anthology: selected and introduced by DR. IAN GRIMBLE , with commentaries by PROFESSOR D. S. THOMSON
The poems read in English by DUNCAN MCINTYRE and in Gaelic by DERICK THOMSON
Produced by Terence Tiller 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 CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) WILLIAM PLEETH (cello)
From the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London
Part 1 ⓢ
John Rex
Professor of Social Theory and Institutions, University of Durham, gives the second of four fortnightly talks in this series
Part 2
The last of eight public concerts promoted by the Third Programme
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Written betrceen 1382 and 1387 The sixth of twelve weekly dramatised readings from the new English translation by PROFESSOR NEVIL COGHILL
Produced by Raymond Raikes 0
Seventh reading: June 1
A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared
Roger FISKE discusses the Elgar
CeHo Concerto and some of the problems of its interpretation as recorded by BEATRICE HARRISON with the composer himself conductind, W. H. SQUIRE and SIR HAMILTON HARTY conducting, CASALS and BOULT, TORTELIER and SARGENT, NAVARRA and BARBIROLLI. and JACQUELINE DU PRÉ and BARBIROLLI.
Broadcast on April 5 followed by an interlude at 10.55
