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Introduced by PETER JONES Produced bv John Fenton and Angus Mackay
12.40 SPORTS PARADE
Including your afternoon's Weather and previews of today's Soccer and Racing at Goodwood, with latest news and scores in County Cricket matches
CRICKET
1.10; 1.55; 2.10; 2.40; 3.10; 4.50 Commentaries and reports on matches in the fight for the County Championship
1.50 Lunchtime Scoreboard
ATHLETICS
2.10; 2.40; 3.10; 4.50
Great Britain v. France
Commentary and reports by NORMAN CUDDEFORD and PETER HILDRETH From Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
2.5 RACING IN FRANCE
Prospects for tomorrow's Grand Prix de Deauville, by ST. JOHN DONN-BYRNE
RACING
2.25 The W. D. and H. 0. Wills Nursery Handicap Over five furlongs
2.55 The Wills Mile Over one mile
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY
From Goodwood
4.0 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary by MAURICE EDELSTON and BRYON BUTLER during the second half of one of today's English League matches
4.40 Association Football Results as they come in 5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Including classified Football and Racing Results, reports on selected Association Football matches and up-to-date news of the rest of the afternoon's sport
TODAY'S TIMETABLE
12.40 Sports Parade
1.10 Cricket
1.50 Cricket Lunchtime Scoreboard
1.55 Cricket
2.5 French Racing Preview
2.10 Cricket and Athletics
2.25 Racing
2.40 Cricket and Athletics
2.55 Racing
3.10 Cricket and Athletics
4.0 Association Football
4.40 Association Football Results
4.50 Cricket and Athletics
5.0 Sports Report
Timings may be altered by avents

Contributors

Introduced By:
Peter Jones
Unknown:
John Fenton
Unknown:
Angus MacKay
Unknown:
Peter Hildreth
Commentary By:
Peter Bromley
Commentary By:
Maurice Edelston
Commentary By:
Bryon Butler

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 Latin church music.
Broadcast on May 10

Contributors

Unknown:
Denis Stevens

Variations in the portraiture of a mythical figure by W. B. STANFORD, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Dublin
2: The Villain
Many writers after Homer, ranging from Sophocles and Euripides to Jean Giono in this century, have preferred to emphasise the less admirable aspects of Ulysses' character, turning his intelligence into unscrupulous cleverness and his resourcefulness into flagrant dishonesty.
Reader: Michael McClain
Produced by Adrian Johnson

Contributors

Unknown:
Jean Giono
Reader:
Michael McClain
Produced By:
Adrian Johnson

The Stranger Maiden
Opera seria in two acts
Libretto by FELICE Romani after the novel by D'Arlincourt
Music by Bellini first broadcast in this country
In order of singing (in Italian):
CHORUS and ORCHESTRA OF THE TEATRO MASSIMO, Palermo
Chorus-Master, Mario Tagini
Conducted by NINO SANZOGNO
Recording made available by courtesy of Italian Radio
Act 1 The Duchy of Montolino. A.D. 1200: The shores of the lake, beneath the castle-Outside Alaide's hut by the lake

Contributors

Unknown:
Felice Romani
Chorus-Master:
Mario Tagini
Conducted By:
Nino Sanzogno

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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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