First of four programmes Including large-scale chamber music by Brahms and Dvorak
9.0 News; Weather gramophone records
Introduced by Steve Race
Organ Recital by SIMON PRESTON first performance commissioned by the President of the Cheltenham Festival and played by the composer from Cheltenham College Chapel
A record of some Dances from L'Europe galante by Andre Campra
Introduced by PETER JONES
Produced by Jacob de Vries
12.30 SPORTS SERVICE LINE-UP including today's Weather forecast, racing preview, and sports new,
ROWING
12.35; 3.15; 4.15; 5.50
Henley Royal Regatta
Reports and commentaries by JOHN SNAGGE from Henley
CRICKET
12.40; 2.15; 3.15; 3.55
4.35; 5.20
Middlesex v. Northamptonshire Commentary by BRIAN JOHNSTON at Lord's
Warwickshire v. Surrey
Commentary by PETER CRANMER at Edgbaston
Leicestershire v. Somerset
Commentary by NORMAN CUDDEFORD at Leicester
1.50 Lunchtime Scoreboard and draw for Gillette Cup semi-Flnal
4.25 Teatime Scoreboard
5.55 Latest Cricket Scores
1.45 LUNCH-BREAK including previews of today's finals at Wimbledon, tomorrow's racing in France, and the British Open Golf Championship beginning next Wednesday
Golden Jubilee in Sport
On July 4, 1919. Jack Dempsey first won the World Heavyweight title. He talks to GERALD SINSTADT
On July 4, 1919 Harold Abrahams first competed in an Athletics Championship. He talks to JACOB DE VRIES
LAWN TENNIS
1.55; 3.15; 4.35
Latest news of the finals in the Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon
RACING
1.35 Preview of tomorrow's racing in France by ST. JOHN DONN-BYRNE
3.0 The Sandown Anniversary Handicap over one mile
3.40 The Eclipse Stakes over one mile and a quarter
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY from Sandown Park
5.5 Racing Results and Review
5.0 CYCLING
Tour de France
Eighth day
J. B. WADLEY, Editor of International Cycle Sport, reports direct from Divonne-les-Bains
5.15 MOTOR RACING
The French Grand Prix
ROBIN RICHARDS on the prospects of tomorrow's race
From Clermont-Ferrand
5.45 ATHLETICS
Czechoslovakia v. Great Britain
HAROLD ABRAHAMS reports from Brno
Broadcast by arrangement with Czechoslovak Radio
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TODAY'S TIMETABLE
12.30 Sports Service Line-up
12.35 Rowing. 12.40 Cricket
1.45 Lunch-Break
1.50 Cricket Lunchtime Scoreboard
1.55 Lunch-Break continued
2.15* Cricket and Lawn Tennis
3.0 Racing. 3.15 Rowing, Cricket. and Lawn Tennis
3.40 Racing. 3.55 Cricket
4.15 Rowing
4.25 Cricket Tea-Time Scoreboard
4.35 Cricket and Lawn Tennis
5.5 Racing Results and Review
5.15 Motor Racing. 5.20 Cricket
5.45 Athletics. 5.50 Rowing
5.55 Cricket Scoreboard
Timings may be altered by events
played by Peter Franki. (piano)
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 and Gaelic by Dehick THOMSON and DUNCAN McIntyre
Produced by Terence Tiller
Second broadcast
David Phillips
A writer and Journalist. David Phillips has a long-standing interest in Greece and the Mediterranean. He has recently been In Strasbourg working with the Human Rights Sub-Commission which has been investigating charges of torture in Greece.
First of four fortnightly talks
Tippett
Conducts
A concert given in York Minster
Gwenyth Annear (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, John Georgiadis Conducted by Sir Michael Tippett
Part 1
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Talk by MICHAEL TIPPETT from the BBC Sound Archives
Recorded in 1954
Part 2
The chorale is a familiar ingredient in Bach's inspiration, but in this talk Alec ROBERTSON explores the nature of his debt to plainsong
Organ Concerto No. 16
In F major
ALBERT DE KLERK
AMSTERDAM Chamber ORCHESTRA Conducted by ANTHON VAN DER HORST gramophone record