Dvorak Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op 46 No 8 conducted by NICOLAI MALKO
Mozart Piano Concerto No 15, in B flat (K 450): with SOLOMON conducted by OTTO ACKERMANN
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1919): conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI : records

Listeners' record requests
Georg Benda Harpsichord Concerto in G: JOSEF HALA , ENSEMBLE
9.19* Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat, Op 70 No 2
WILHELM KEMPFF (piano) HENRYK SZERYNG (violin) PIERRE FOURNIER (cello)
9.52* Vaughan Williams The lark ascending: HUGH BEAN (violin) NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT

Introduced by Bernard Keeffe
The French Choral Tradition: by MARTIN COOLER.
Out of the Depth: RODNEY SLATFORD redeems the reputation of the double-bass.
A House of Pianos: KENNETH MOBBS discusses the relevance of owning different pianos for authentic performances

Big Ben
Two Minutes' Silence
The Last Post
(The whole ceremony on R4: 10.30)

JENNIFER SMITH (soprano) MICHAEL RIPPON (baritone)
HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY chorus-master GRAHAM TREACHER BBC NORTHERN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIMON RATTLE Part 1 Stravinsky
Chorale Variations on Vom Himmel hoch
Symphony of Psalms

Fritz Spiegl
(Repeated: Thursday 4.15 pm)

Part 2 Fauré
Pavane; Requiem
(Presented in the Town Hall, Huddersfield, on 4 Nov by the Huddersfield Choral Society) BBC Manchester

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.50 am)

Opera in four acts
Music by Verdi. Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE
(sung in Italian: records)
JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR, LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by JAMES LEVINE : Acts 1 and 2

or Maxims for Locomotion by WILLIAM KITCHINER , MD
(died 1827), adapted in three parts and narrated by David Lloyd James. Part 1, with Victor Lucas as the Doctor
PETE.R HALL (tenor), ALAN JONES (bar), RICHARD NUNN (piano)
Producer TERENCE TILLER (Part 2: 19 November)

Act 3
3.55* Interval Reading
4.5* La forza del destino Act 4

Fernand Braudel. the French historian, in a French-English conversation about his ideas with Peter Burke , Reader in Intellectual History, University of Sussex, and H. G. Koenigs berger, Professor of History King's College, London.
Professor Braudel has been the leading spirit in the Annales, that school of French historians named after the historical journal Braudel has himself directed. Best known for his major study, The Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip 11, he has just completed the second volume of his most recent work, Capitalism and Material Life.

The Songs of Francis Poulenc

This biographical series creates in 13 instalments the most complete picture of Poulenc yet assembled for broadcasting. His relationship with his poets is vital to the portrait-building and, from this week on, each programme hinges on his settings of specific poets.
Written by Graham Johnson, produced by Elaine Padmore and presented by both, with Philip Monnet as Poulenc.
4: Le Pont
The transitional years of the early 1930s. Settings of Apollinaire and Max Jacob.
Poutenc Le pont: La carpe: Novellette in C; Toccata; Aubade: Trois poemes de Louise Lalanne; Quatre poemes (Apollinaire); Cinq poemes de Max Jacob: Le bal masque
FELICITY LOTT (soprano) and RICHARD JACKSON (baritone) accompanied by GRAHAM JOHNSON
and in records CLAIRE CROIZA, BERNARD KRUYSEN, HOROWITZ, MOURA LYMPANY, PIERRE BERNAC (baritone) FRANCIS POULENC (piano) and INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE conducted by LOUIS FREMAUX

6: This month's programme Is about Academic Life and is in two parts. In the first part Denis Arnold , Professor of Music at Oxford University, discusses how the study of music at universities has affected wider musical activities and the problems presented by the spread of music faculties. He illustrates his argument with a madrigal by Wilbye, Draw on, sweet night, part of Purcell's music for King Arthur, conducted by SIR ANTHONY LEWIS , an aria from Handel's opera Ariodante sung by JANET BAKER and part of Hoddinott's Sinfonia.
Producer CLIVE BENNETT
(Part 2: tomorrow 10.0 pm)

A search for the identity of Robert Tressell , author of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Written by FRED c. BALL, with Leonard Fenton as the Narrator Jim Norton as Robert Tressell and Irene Sutcliffe as Kathleen ' Bob was a first-class crafts-man, but wouldn't take a foreman's job - he said he didn't want power over any man.'
' My uncle felt that the working classes had been grievously wronged, and he would find out the facts from personal experience down to the last detail.'
' My father hated sham and hypocrisy and loved children and all weak and helpless creatures, and suffered agonies over his inability to alter things. He was an agnostic, but surely lived the most Christian life I have ever come into contact with.' with ROD BEACHAM
DOUGLAS BLACKWELL , PETER CRAZI
SHIRLEY DIXON , PETER HOWELL
NICOLETTE MCKENZIE
JONATHAN SCOTT , JEFFREY SEGAL and JAMES THOMASON
Music composed, arranged and played by MARTIN GOLDSTEIN Producer JOHN THEOCHARIS (Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered
Philanthropists is A Book at Bedtime, R4 Mon-Fri 11.0 pm) Preview: p 19

conducted by BERNHARD KLEE with HIROFUMI FUKAI (viola)
Henze Compases para preguntas ensimismadas
Beethoven Symphony No 8, in r (North German Radio recording)

The American Involvement In Vietnam
Presented by Michael Charlton The CIA's assessment of both the bombing of North Vietnam, and the major military actions, is that they really were non-conclusive, that the real war was at the village level.
(WILLIAM COLBY)
9: Trying Not to Lose
The fighting in South Vietnam continues, but the strategies and negotiations of President Nixon and Dr Henry Kissinger finally result in the Paris Agreements and the cease-fire of January 1973. Could a negotiated settlement have been achieved earlier? Contributions from William Colby , Warren Nutter , Tad Szulc , Sir Robert Thompson and Paul Warnke Producer ANTHONY MONCRIEFF

Piano Trio in G minor, Op 30
(first broadcast performance in the UK): MIRECOURT trio: record