Today's time: GTS 8.0 am

Elgar Suite: The Spanish Lady (arr Young) ACADEMY OF
ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER (violin)
8.12* Bax Symphony No 3, in c major
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by EDWARD DOWNES gramophone records

Mozart Symphony No. 40, in G minor (K 550)
ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JEAN FOURNET
9.33. Berg Lyric Suite LASALLE STRING QUARTET Walter Levin (violin) Henry Meyer (violin)
Peter Kamnitzer (viola) Jack Kirstein (cello)
16.5* Stravinsky Oedipus Rex ORALIA DOMINGUEZ (mezzo-soprano) Nico BOER (tenor)
MIRTO PICCHI (tenor)
PETER VAN DER BILT (bass) GUUS HOEKMAN (bass)
MICHEL FAVORY (narrator)
BELGIAN RADIO MEN'S CHORUS ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by JEAN FOURNET
(Recordings made available by courtesy of Netherlands and Austrian Radios)

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Brahms's Piano Concerto No 1, in D minor, by JOSEPH cooper
A new edition of the complete symphonies of Mozart reviewed by STEPHEN DODGSON

introduced by STEVE RACE

Introduced by VINCENT DUGGLEBY
Produced by JOHN HASLAM and ANGUS MACKAY
Timings may be altered by events
12.30
Sports Parade
Including your afternoon's Weather and previews of the day's Racing and Football fixtures
1.0
Behind the Sporting Scenes
The Animal Health Trust Equine Research Station
If a racehorse breaks a leg, must it be destroyed? Research into problems of surgery, doping and the diseases which afflict horses is carried out at the Animal Health Trust's Equine Research Station at Newmarket
PETER BROMLEY reports on the work being done there
1.25
Cricket Around The World
No 4: Old Lords and Kinosmead, Durban
Compiled and narrated by MARTIN YOUNG with the voices of ALAN MELVILLE , HERBIE TAYLOR FRANK WOOLLEY , DUDLEY NOURSE NEIL HARVEY , ALEC BEDSER and JOHN ARLOTT
1.40; 2.30; 3.40; 4.50 Lawn Tennis:
The Dewar Cup
Commentaries by MAURICE EDELSTON on the final day of the first of a series of five weekly covered court tournaments, with summaries by FRED PERRY
From Bell's Sports Arena, Perth
2.5
London Powerboat
Race Preview
A look ahead to next Saturday's new one-and-a-half-hour race on the River Thames between Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges, sponsored by the Evening News and W. D. & H. O. Wills
2.15; 2.55; 4.5; 4.55
Racing from Newmarket Commentary by PETER BROMLEY and JULIAN WILSON , with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER. on the 2.20 Highflyer Stakes (Handicap), over six furlongs
3.0 The Cesarewitch Handicap over two miles and a quarter and the 4.10 Champion Stakes, over one mile and a quarter
4.55 Racing Results
3.10; 4.50
Rugby Union:
Harlequins v Coventry
Commentary during this afternoon's club match by PETER WEST and PETER YARRANTON. from Twickenham
3.50; 4.20
Association Football
Commentary by PETER JONES and JOHN CAMKIN on one of today's English League matches, followed by the day's resulto as they come in 5.0
Sports Report
Including classified Football results, reports on selected soccer matches, and further news of the rest of the afternoon's sport

by ALFRED BRENDEL
Beethoven Sonata in A flat, Op 110
Schubert Moments musicaux

Three-score thousand will know the reason why!
An arrangement for broadcasting by David Baxter of the trials of John Lilburne, first under Charles I then under Cromwell
'Upon Tuesday the 11th or 12th December 1637 I was treacherously and Judasly betrayed (by one that I supposed to be my friend) into the hand of the pursuivant, with four of his assistants, as I was walking in Soperlane. And about twelve of the clock the next day I was committed to the Gatehouse, without any examination at all, for sending of factious and scandalous Books out of Holland into England'

The legend of the Fair Lily
Opera in two acts Text by GOETHE
Music by GISELHER KLEBE
Giselher Klebe , a 44-year-old pupil of Boris Blacher and one of the liveliest minds in musical Germany today, has a number of impressive operas to his credit. This one, his latest, had its premiere at this year's Schwetzingen Festival.
It takes its text from Goethe's
Das Marchen , a fairy tale so overladen with symbolism that it baffled even Goethe's contemporaries.
(first broadcast in this country: sung in German)
SOUTH GERMAN RADIO CHORUS chorus-master
HERMANN JOSEF DAHMEN SOUTH GERMAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by HANS ZENDER
The action takes place in legendary times. Act 1 Scene 1 A rocky gorge with a river
Scene 2 An underground temple Scene 3 Inside a cottage Scene 4 The rocky gorge

Victor Montagu gives the last In his series of weekly talks

Act 2 Scene 1 The garden of the Fair Lily
Scene 2 The rocky gorge Scene 3 The temple
Scene 4 The rocky gorge

PETER ASTON , who has edited the original manuscripts, talks about this 17th-century composer and discusses his relationship with his English and foreign contemporaries
The illustrations were recorded at a concert of Jeffreys' music given at York on 7 March by the English Baroque Ensemble. York University Chamber Choir, and instrumental ensemble, conducted by Peter Aston.

Jeffrcus Fantasia in three parts BRÜGGEN CONSORT directed by FRANS BRÜGGEN (recorder)
William Lawes Sonata No 1, in G minor
DONALD WEEKES (baroque violin) JOHN RUSSELL (baroque violin) GUY HENDERSON (baSS viol)
THURSTON DART (chamber organ) gramophone records