The Centenary Test:
Australia v England
BRIAN JOHNSTON introduces live commentary on the last two hours of the second day's play at Melbourne. Commentators include JOHN ARLOTT , CHRISTOPHER MARTIN-JENKINS and ALAN MCGILVRAY

Gade String Quartet in D, Op 63: COPENHAGEN QUARTET
8.25* Sibelius String Quartet in D minor, Op 56 (Voces totimae) LANSDOWNE QUARTET: records

Listeners' record requests
Arnold Four Cornish Dances, Op 91: CITY OF BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
9.15* Catalani Dance of the Sylphs
LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by RICHARD BONYNGE
9.22* Janacek Lachian Dances
LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by FRANÇOIS HUYBRECHTS
9.45* Britten Piano Concerto, Op 13: SVIATOSLAV RICHTER ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
Requests, on postcards please, to: Your Concert Choice, BBC, Broadcasting House, London, WIA 4WW

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Albert Roussel , a composer without an image: by HUGH iMACDONALD.
A conversation with DAME EVA TURNER on her 85th birthday. Walt Whitman , a composer's poet: by MICHAEL KENNEDY.
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

with Clifford Curzon (piano) Part 1
Mozart Piano Concerto No 27i in B flat (K 595)

Julian Mitchell. writer and critic, reflects on some of the things we say and write and on the raw material we use to make them - words.
(Repeated: Friday 11.5 am)

Part 2 Mahler
Symphony No 9
(Concert of 30 January 1969: Cleveland Orchestra Broadcast
Service recording)

A series of nine Sunday lunchtime programmes
1: The 12-Bar Blues Producer ALAN OWEN

Peter Philips Pavan and Galliard: Dolorosa (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)
Hugh Aston Hornpipe
Sweelinck Variations on Ick voer al over Rhijn anon Dutch Courante: Daphne Byrd The bells
Bull My grief; Two Almans anon Chi passa (Dublin Virginal Book) played by COLIN TILNEY on a copy of a Ruckers virginals of 1611

direct from the Gaumont Theatre, Ipswich Manoug Parikian (violin) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA leader ELI GOREN conducted by Sir Charles Groves
Berlioz Overture: Beatrice and Benedict
Elgar Violin Concerto in B minor

A selection of poems compiled and introduced by Patric Dickinson
Readers: TIMOTHY bateson and JOHN ROWE
Producer SHAUN MACLOUGHLIN

Part 2 Brahms
Symphony No 3, in F major
(In association with Ipswich Civic Concerts)

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.50 am) followed by an interlude

A series of seven programmes presented by Dr Martin Bax 6: The Commitment at Birth
Earlier programmes in the series have looked at what mothers and children do to become attached. Their efforts are much affected by the cultura,l ethos - so do the differences in maternity practices in China, Europe and Africa have long-term effects on the rearing of children in these regions?
Contributors include
FROFESSOR URI BRONFENBRENNER ,
DR JOHN KENNEL , DR AIDAN MAC -FARLANE and DR MARTIN RICHARDS

GARY KARR , With HARMON LEWIS (piano and harpsichord) Handel Sonata in c
Steve Tittle It is all there all the time (first broadcast performance in this country)
Serge Koussevitzky Two Pieces: Chanson triste; Valse miniature Giovanni Bottesini Fantasy on themes from Bellini's La Sonnambula

David Martin , Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, gives four talks on religion and secularisation in the West.
2: From Established Church to Established Dissent
In the USA and Scandinavia, there is a relationship between religious laissez-faire and political democracy.

Wolkenloses Christfest : Requiem for baritone, cello and orchestra (first broadcast in this country): DIETRICH FISCHER -DIESKAU, SIEGFRIED PALM
SAAR RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by hans ZENDER (Saar Radio recording)

Written and presented by Maurice Cranston , Professor of Political Science; London School of Economics.
' The new media have expanded the theatre of politics to fill the world, and have put it in a box, rather like Pollock's Toy Theatre, in every house. Let me invite you to consider some performers of our time in the theatre of politics, from the impartial perspective of the political philosopher.'
The cast assembled from the BBC's Sound Archives
Readings by DAVID MARCH and CHRISTOPHER BIDMEAD
Producer MICHAEL MASON

Christa Ludwig (mezzo-sop) with Erik Werba (piano)
Berg Four Lieder, Op 2: Schlafen, Schlafen, nichts als Schlafen; Schlafend tragt man mich; Nun ich der Riesen Starksten ; Warm die Liifte
Berg Seven Early Songs: Nacht; Schilflied; Die Nachtigall; Traumgekront; Im Zimmer; Liebesode; Sommertage
Pfitzner Hast du von den Fischerkindern?, Op 7 No 1; 1st der Himmel darum im Lenz so blau?, Op 2 No 2; Gretel, Op 11 No 5
Strauss Du meines Herzens Krdnelein , Op 21 No 2; Die Nacht, Op 10 No 3; Ruhe, meine Seele, Op 27 No 1
Wolf Wer rief dich denn?; Nein, junger Herr; Wir haben beide lange Zeit geschwiegen; Mein Liebster hat zu Tische mich geladen; Wenn du mein Liebster steigt zum Himmel auf (Austrian Radio recording)

(Ne m'oublie pas!)
An entertaining tragedy in French
Introduced by HALLAM TENNYSON Text by Madeleine LOUYS
Music by BRUNO GILLET. Technical director MADELEINE SOLA with Martine Vlard as Amarabella, the loveress and leader of the chorus and Bernard Haller as Kapriel, the lover, and the nameless husband and waiters, assorted clients, a fair penitent and a chorus of forget-me-nots
Kapriel is taking the waters, there is moonlight over the lake - an idyll is inevitable. But Amarabella, the beloved, is already captive to another, leaving only one solution - death. The Wagnerian tragedy is unfolded by the forget-me-nots who, culled from their vantage point on the mountain slope, participate in the inevitable climax.
This programme was submitted by Radio France to the 1976 Prix Italia and won the award for outstanding qualities of production. It is a brilliant satire on the romantic tradition and on the conventions of French classical acting. Preview: page 17 followed by an interlude

lain Hamilton talks to STEPHEN PLAISTOW about his new work, Tamburlaine, which is to be broadcast tomorrow at 7.30 pm.

Trois pieces, Op 49; L'accueil des muses; Prelude et fugue, Op 46: JEAN DOYEN (piano) gramophone record