Today's time: GTS 8.0 am

Ethel Smyth Overture: The Wreckers
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by ALEXANDER GIBSON
8.15* Dodgson Guitar Concerto JOHN WILLIAMS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES GROVES
8.35* Hoddinott Variants for orchestra
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR gramophone records

Bach Motets : Komm, Jesu, komm!; Furchte dich nicht, ich bin bei dir
GACHINGER KANTOREI conducted by HELMUT RILLING
9.27* Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 2
9.42* Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1, in c major
10.22* Stravinsky Symphony in E flat major
RUDOLF FIRKUSNT (piano) SOUTH-WEST GERMAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNEST bour
(Recordings made available by courtesy of South German and South-West German Radios)

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Haydn's Symphony No 104 in D major (London) by STANLEY SADIE
A new series of re-issues: reviewed by CHARLES OSBORNE

Introduced by STEVE RACE

Introduced by VINCENT DUGGLEBY
Produced by KENNETH PRAGNELL 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
1.0 News Summary
1.2
Behind the Sporting Scenes
The Football Referee
The man in the middle-the man with the whistle. The man who probably receives more abuse than praise. MAURICE EDELSTON talks to some of the men who undertake one of football's least enviable jobs and endeavours to find out what makes them tick
Edited by BERT KINGDON
1.25
Cricket around the World
No 12: Old Wanderers, Ellis Park and New Wanderers, Johannesburg
The last of a series of programmes compiled and narrated by MARTIN YOUNG , With the voices Of DUDLEY NOURSE , ANDY SANDHAM , JOHN REID , NEIL ADCOCK , JACKIE MCGLEW, JOHNNY WAITE , PETER MAY, TREVOR GODDARD, BRIAN JOHNSTON , and CHARLES FORTUNE
1.40; 2.10: 2.45 Racing from
Sandown Park
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY on the 1.45 Sovereign Chase, over two miles; 2.15 Gold Bond Hurdle Race, over two miles, and the 2.50 Benson and Hedges Gold Cup, over three miles and about 18 yards.
4.55 Racing Results
1.55 .
You've asked for it
BRIAN JOHNSTON introduces commentaries on past sporting events requested by listeners Compiled by JOHN FENTON
2.25
Talking Sport * Topics and personalities in the news
2.40; 3.0; 4.50
Rugby Union: Cardiff v The
South African Tourists
Commentary on part of this afternoon's match by ALUN WILLIAMS and KIM SHIPPEY, from
Cardiff Arms Park, with a report after the game
2.35; 4.50
Rugby Union:
Yorkshire v Lancashire
ALAN GIBSON with a look at the teams and prospects for the 100th meeting between the two counties at Headingley, Leeds, and a report after the game
3.45
Association Football
Commentary by MAURICE EDELSTON and PETER JONES on the second half of one of today's English League matches, followed by the day's results 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 ARTUR BALSAM
Brahms Fantasien (Op 116)
No 2, in A minor; No 3, in 0 minor; No 4, In major; No 7, in D minor
6.15* Brahms Clavierstiicke (Op 118)
Intermezzo In A minor Intermezzo in A major
6.23* Beethoven Sonata In A major, Op 101

A reflection for radio by FREDERICK BRADNUM
(a sequel to A Lonely Place in a Dark Wood which won the merit award of the Writers Guild for a radio feature in 1967) Music specially composed by HUMPHREY SEARLE Members of the SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by THE COMPOSER with jo MANNING WILSON
WILFRID CARTER. FRANK DUNCAN DENIS GOACHER , CHARLES SIMON
Produced by TERENCE TILLER (To be repeated on 11 March)

A lyric drama in five acts by MAURICE MAETERLINCK
Music by DEBUSSY (sung in French) from the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
Cast in order of singing
ROYAL OPERA CHORUS chorus-master DOUGLAS ROBINSON ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE leader CHARLES TAYLOR conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ Produced by VACLAV KASLIK
The imaginary kingdom of Allemonde in legendary times Act 1
Scene 1 A forest
Scene 2 A room in the castle Scene 3 Outside the castle Act 2
Scene 1 A well in the park
Scene 2 A room in the castle Scene 3 Outside a grotto Act 3
Scene 1 One of the castle towers Scene 2 The castle vaults
Scene 3 A terrace outside the vaults
Scene 4 Outside the castle (Alan Blyth : page 12)

Donald Watt
Reader in International History, University of London

Act 4
Scene 1 A room in the castle Scene 2 A well in the park Act 5
A bedchamber in the castle

Soon after his election in 1458 as Pope Pius II, Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini decided to convert his obscure native village some 30 miles south of Siena into a fitting monument to himseif and to rename it Pienza.
PETER MURRAY tells the story of Pius' new city which has remained nearly unchanged until today. (San Biagio: 22 December)