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Harly A John Field Suite
8.23* Bax Dance in the sunlight ENGLISH SJNFONIA conducted by NEVILLE DILKES
8.27* Massenet Scenes pittoresques: CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by louis FREMAUX 8.44* Satie La belle excentrique
FRANCIS POULENC and JACQUES FÉVRIER (pianos)
8.52* Prokofiev March, Op 99 MONTE CARLO OPERA ORCHESTRA conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX gramophone records
Poulenc: Sunday 9.5 pm, BBC2

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Haydn Symphony No 90, in c
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KARL BÖHM
9.33* Jacob Handl Currit parvus lepulus; Quam gallina (Harmoniae Morales )
PRAGUE MADRIGAL SINGERS
MUSICA ANTIQUA OF VIENNA conducted by RENE CLEMENCIC
9.39* Handel Concerto in D minor, for flute, violin, cello and continuo
CONCENTUS MUSICUS OF VIENNA conducted by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
9.49* Bach Motet: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf REGENSBUHG CATHEDRAL CHOIR CAPELLA ACADEMICA OF VIENNA conducted by HANNS-MARDN SCHNEIDT
9.59* Schumann Sonata No 1, in F sharp minor
MAURIZIO POLLINI (piano)
10.32* Bruckner Symphony No 1, in c minor (Linz version)
LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN gramophone records

Test Match Special England v Pakistan at Lord's (Third day)
Ball-by-ball commentaries by JOHN ARLOTT , BRIAN JOHNSTON, HENRY BLOFELD , DON MOSEY with comments and summaries by TREVOR BAILEY , BILLY IBADULLA Close-of-play summary by E. W. SWANTON
Scorer BILL FRINDALL
11.25-1.35* including lunch summary
1.55*-2.5* Lunchtime scoreboard, including reports from the day's important County Championship matches.
2.10*-4.20* and 4.35*-6.40 with teatime and close-of-play summaries including at:
1.35*-1.40* News Weather
1.40*-1.55*
The Positive World
A weekly survey of the more hopeful trends in the world's news, compiled and introduced by David Lloyd

A weekly discussion on cinema. theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts. This week:
Philip Oakes (in the chair) talks with SUSAN HILL NATHAN SILVER and PHILIP HOPE-WALLACE
Producer PATRICIA BRENT followed by an interlude

direct from the Royal Albert Hall, London
The first Henry Wood Promenade Concert was given on 10 August 1895
Craig Sheppard (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, leader Bela Dekany, conducted by Charles Mackerras

Wagner Overture: Rienzi
Chopin Piano Concerto No 2, in F minor

(Omnibus at the Proms: 18 Aug)
(Stereo)

(An extended version of the programme broadcast at 1.40)

Janacek Rhapsody: Taras Bulba
Dvorak Slavonic Dances: No 9, in E major; No 10, in E minor; No 15, in C major; No 16, in A flat major

(This Week's Proms: page 9. The anatomy of an orchestra: see feature pages)
(Stereo)

A fortnightly series about the media
The Press Council: a Private Watchdog?
Included in the terms of reference of the 1974 Royal Commission on the Press are the ' responsibilities, constitution and functioning of the Press Council.' Rudolf Klein , Senior Fellow of the Centre for Policy Research, presents the results of his own enquiries, and interviews the new chairman of the Press Council, Lord Shawcross Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF
(24 August: Religious Broadcasting) followed by an interlude

Mass: Frere Thibault
CHOIR OF ST JOHN 'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE conductor GEORGE GUEST

Frank Swinnerton , novelist, critic, wit, countryman, lover of life, was born on 12 August 1884. Still bubbling with stories about the famous and less famous people he has known, he talks to HALLAM TENNYSON. followed by an interlude

Berlioz Overture: Roman Carnival
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3, in G
BRITISH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Sixteen soloists
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
(gramophone records made in 1940, 1932 and 1938)

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