The Centenary Test:
Australia v England
BRIAN JOHNSTON introduces live commentary on the last two hours of the final day's ptoy at Melbourne.

Milhaud Suite: Scaramouche WALTER AND BEATRICE KLIEN (two pianos)
7.15* Francaix L'horloge de flore: JOHN DE LANCIE (oboe) LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
7.31* d'Indy Symphony on a French mountaineer's song NICOLE HENRIOT-SCHWEITZER (piano), BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES MUNCH : records

Handel Overture: Esther
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.13* Bach Violin Concerto No 2, in E: EDUARD MELKUS
VIENNA CAPELLA ACADEMICA
8.30* Michel Corrette Le Phenix , for four bassoons and continuo GEORGE ZUKERMAN , JURGEN GODE KARL STEINBRECHER , FRITZ WOLKEN MARTIN GALLING (harpsichord)
8.39* Handel Concerto Grosso No 28, in F, for double orchestra: ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA directed by RAYMOND LEPPARD (harpsichord): records

Church Music Motet: In Convertendo - Liliane Berton (soprano) Jean-Christophe Benoit (bar) Pierre-Michel Pegaud (tenor) Jean-Baptiste Lully Choir and Instrumental Ensemble, conducted by Guy Morancon

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11: Crosby Hall
The 15th-century mansion built by Sir John Crosby in Bishops-gate, restored in the mid-19th century, was the setting for Dando's Chamber Music Concerts and the shorter-lived Sacred Concerts series.
Corelli Concerto Grosso in F, Op 6 NO 2: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS directed by NEVILLE MARRINER
9.50* Haydn My mother bids me bind my hair SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano), MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
9.54* Mendelssohn Hear my prayer: FELICITY PALMER (sop) GILLIAN WEIR (organ), HEINRICH SCHtiTZ CHOIR AND CHORALE conducted by ROGER NORRINGTON
10.4* Schumann String Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1
ITALIAN STRING QUARTET: records

given by DAVID PARKHOUSE Ireland Sonata
Bax Paean: Passacaglia;
Sonata No 4, in G

conductor BORIS BROTT with RALPH HOLMES (violin) and MORAY WELSH (cello)
Brahms Concerto in A minor, for violin, cello and orchestra
12.10* Interval Reading
12.15* Concert Part 2
Beethoven Symphony No 6, in F (Pastoral). BBC Wales

direct from the Royal
Exchange Theatre, Manchester Ifor James (horn)
John McCabe (piano)
Saint-Saens Morceaux de concert, Op 94
Eccles, arr Joseph Eger Sonata in g minor
Danzi Sonata in E flat, Op 28 Nielsen Canto serioso
McCabe Shapeshifter (Goddess Trilogy) (first broadcast performance)
(Promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society in assoc with the BBC) BBC Manchester

Opera seria in three acts
Music by Sacchini. Libretto by NICOLAS-FRANCOIS GUILLARD, after Sophocles (sung in French)
This was Sacchini's most successful work, although the trials of getting it staged are reputed to have killed him. It was first heard in Paris in January 1786.
ROME CHORUS OF ITALIAN RADIO chorus-master GIANNI LAZZARI
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI ORCHESTRA
OF NAPLES conducted by FRANCO CARACCIOLO (Italian Radio recording)

conducted by BRYDEN THOMSON with GERALD ROBBINS (piano)
Shostakovich Symphony No 9
4.32* Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 1, in F sharp minor
5.0* Ravel Rapsodie espagnole BBC Manchester

Introduced by ROBERT PRIZEMAN

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The Wider World
6.30 The English Novel Abroad 6: Finding a Tongue
WILLIAM WALSH , ARTHUR RAVENS-CROFT, GERALD MOORE and JOHN SPENCER discuss the ways in which overseas writers have extended the use of English and the form of the novel. PAUL BAILEY in the Chair
Series producer JUDITH BUMPUS

Another programme in which Antony Hopkins puts questions about music to three musicians - Susan Daniel. Brian Hawkins and Julian Lloyd Webber.
Recorded at the invitation of the Music Club. Chipping Ongar, Essex
Questions devised by BRIAN GEAR Producer IAN CARSON BBC Bristol

in Hong Kong
A public concert recorded on 25 February at the Hong Kong Arts Festival leader RAYMOND OVENS conductor Christopher Seaman with Pierre Amoyal (violin) Walton Overture: Scapino David Gwilt Athletics
Glazunov Violin Concerto in A minor

Television and Politics 1936-76 This new book by Grace Wynd -ham Goldie, who was a major influence on BBC television politicalprogrammesformore than 20 years, is reviewed by David Butler , Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

Part 2 Elgar
Symphony No 1, in A flat major

by George Dures
with John Hollis as Danny and Sarah Golding as Fay

'It's s'posed to be a good omen when the sun, wassaname, harmonises with the moon in your sign. Like I'm a Moonchild. That means the moon's me ruling planet, that's why I'm up and down all the time like a watchamacallit - I get ever so depressed and that - you can't help the way you're made though, can you?'

The setting is a Soho nightclub and the speaker is Fay, a young cockney hostess. Her 'client' is a lonely Smithfield porter.
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A programme of instrumental music from Bali: records