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Introduced by Brian Johnston
Produced by Geoff Dobson

12.30 SPORTS SERVICE LINE-UP
Including your Weather Forecast latest Fcores in the Gillette Cup Cricket matches, and previews of the day's Racing at Epsom.

CRICKET
12.40; 1.45; 2.10; 3.15; 3.45; 5.15 The Gillette Cup, Second round with Sports Service commentators at all eight matches
Sussex v. Gloucestershire EMRYS WALTERS
Leicestershire v. Kent NORMAN CUDDEFORD
Hampshire v. Surrey JOHN ARLOTT
Lancashire v. Yorkshire DON MOSEY
Glamorgan v. Hertfordshire ALAN GIBSON
Derbyshire v. Worcestershire REX ALSTON
Nottinghamshire v. Middlesex NEIL DURDEN-SMITH
Warwickshire v. Essex PETER CRANMER

1.10 RUGBY UNION Wellington v. Wales
Commentary by Alun Williams and Bob Irvine on part of this morning's fourth game in the Welsh tour of New Zealand.
Broadcast by arrangement with New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation

1.30 LUNCH-BREAK
Including the latest news of the Sumrie Golf Tournament, the Tour of Britain Cycle Race, the French Open Lawn Tennis Championships, and Geoffrey Green reports from Montevideo on England's Soccer Tour of South America

RACING
1.55 The Acorn Stakes
2.30 The Mickleham Maiden Stakes
3.25 The Oaks
Commentary by Peter Bromley with a summary on The Oaks by Roger Mortimer
From Epsom
5.5 Full Racing Results
5.10 Racing Summary by Peter Bromley

CYCLING
The Tour of Britain-Milk Race
1.30* During Lunch-Break John Burns gives a progress report as the cyclists head for Blackpool on the last stage of the race.
2.28* A further report.
3.0* John Burns with Sidney Saltmarsh from the finishing line at Middle Walk, Blackpool.

LAWN TENNIS -4
2.45; 3.45; 5.15 The French Championships (Open)
Commentary by Maurice Edelston from the Stade Roland Garros in Paris: summaries by Alf Chave.
Broadcast by arrangement with the French Broadcasting Service

GOLF
2.45; 3.10; 3.45 The Sumrie Tournament
Among the pairings for this Four-Ball Better Ball event over seventy-two holes are Bobby Locke and Jimmy Hitchcock, Peter Townsend and Ronnie Shade. The partners in this new-style event are competing for a first prize of £2,000 and Tom Scott reports on the final round.
From Pannal Golf Club, Harrogate

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Johnston
Produced By:
Geoff Dobson
Unknown:
Peter Cranmer
Commentary By:
Alun Williams
Commentary By:
Bob Irvine
Unknown:
Geoffrey Green
Commentary By:
Peter Bromley
Unknown:
Roger Mortimer
Unknown:
John Burns
Commentary By:
Maurice Edelston
Unknown:
Bobby Locke
Unknown:
Jimmy Hitchcock
Unknown:
Peter Townsend
Unknown:
Ronnie Shade
Unknown:
Tom Scott

by YORICK WILKS, Cambridge
Language Research Unit
Language and Mind is the title of a new book by Noam Chomsky , famous for his work on linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yorick Wilks takes the occasion of attempting some assessment of Chomsky's work.

Contributors

Book By:
Noam Chomsky
Unknown:
Yorick Wilks

I hat>e oreat /aith tn. the collective wisdom of a selection board.
A BBC OFFICIAL
If you have ever emerged from a job-interview feeling crushed and inadequate, tune in to The Riaht Kind of Chap where the tables are turned on the selectors: modern psychological research has shown that most interviews are conducted in such an unsystematic way that they are very unreliable. MICHAEL ARGYLE, Lecturer in Social Psychology at Oxford, and ELIZABETH SIDNEY , Consultant Psychologist, run training courses in interviewing to help managers make better selections. At one of these courses ANTHONY SCHOOLING made recordings which are dissected in this programme
Produced by Keith Hindell
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Elizabeth Sidney
Produced By:
Keith Hindell

MAVIS BEATTIE (soprano)
PAUL Esswood (counter-tenor) JOHN ELWES (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
Scuola DI CHIESA
Continuo:
Ralph Downes (organ)
Adam Skeaping (gamba)
Francis Baines (double-bass)
LONDON CORNETT AND SACKBUT ENSEMBLE
Peter Owen (cornett)
Tony Moore (alto sackbut)
Alan Lumsden (tenor sackbut) John Pritchard (bass sackbut)
London BACH Orchestra Leader, Jiirgen Hess
Conducted by JOHN Hoban
Part 1
Recorded at a public concert given on March 22 in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. London

Contributors

Soprano:
Mavis Beattie
Tenor:
John Elwes
Bass:
Scuola Di Chiesa
Unknown:
Ralph Downes
Double-Bass:
Francis Baines
Unknown:
Peter Owen
Unknown:
Tony Moore
Tenor:
Alan Lumsden
Bass:
John Pritchard
Leader:
Jiirgen Hess
Conducted By:
John Hoban

by GIOVANNI VERGA
A new translation by ALFRED ALEXANDER of the Sicilian story first published in 1880 Like most of Verga's stories, it is based on fact. Its central character, Mother Pina , was known as La Lupa. the she-wolf. Verga's play La Lupa (1896) was first performed in England this week in the World Theatre Season at the Aldwych Theatre, London.
Reader, GABRIEL WOOLF

Contributors

Translation By:
Alfred Alexander
Unknown:
Mother Pina
Unknown:
La Lupa.
Reader:
Gabriel Woolf

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