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Sullivan Overture: Macbeth
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ROYSTON NASH
7.13* Vaughan Williams The lark ascending
IONA BROWN (Violin). ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE FIELDS conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
7.30* trad; arr Grainger Shepherd 's Hey
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by BENJAMIN BRITTEN
7.33* Britten The Prince of the Pagodas: final scene
ORCHESTRA OF THE ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN conducted by THE COMPOSER gramophone records

Bach Suite No 2. in B minor: JAMES GALWAY (flute) ZAGREB SOLOISTS
8.28*
Biber Battalia VIENNA CONCENTUS MUSICUS conducted by NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT
8.36* Handel Concerto in No 2, in F, a due cori: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS : records

Britten
Canticles and Chamber Music Canticle 2, Op 51: Abraham and Isaac: JOHN HAHESSY (alto) PETER PEARS (tenor)
THE composer (piano) \
Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op 49
SARAH FRANCIS (oboe): records

NORMAN DYSON , IVOR KEYS
RICHARD LESTER , ROGER PUGH BIRMINGHAM BACH SOCIETY
ORCHESTRA leader CHRISTOPHER HIRONS conductor RICHARD BUTT
Part 1 J. S. Bach Concerto in c minor, for two harpsichords (bwv 1060)
W. F. Bach Sonata in r, for two harpsichords
J. S. Bach Concerto in c, for three harpsichords (bwv 1064)
10.25* Interval Reading
10.30 Harpsichord Concertos Part 2
J. S. Bach Concerto in c, for two harpsichords (awv 1061)
Soler Concerto in G, for two harpsichords
Vivaldi, arr J. S. Bach Con. certo in A minor, for four harpsichords (bwv 1065)
(Concert recorded in Birmingham Cathedral in April 1977) BBC Birmingham

BRIAN RAYNER COOK (baritone) ANTONY SAUNDERS (piano)
Christopher Steel Song-cycle: Piping down the valleys wild (poems by Blake: first broadcast performance)
Ernest Farrar Diaphenia
Harry Gill A Saxon song; In Memoriam (to the memory of Ernest Farrar , killed in action in 1918) 11.40' Six sonnets from Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's The House of Life, read by Peter Barker
11.45* Vaughan Williams Song-cycle: The House of Life (to the above poems)

led by BARRY HASKEY conducted by IRWIN HOFFMAN LEILA WARD (oboe)
Part 1 J. C. Bach Sinfonia in D. Op 18 No 4
12.27* Mozart Oboe Concerto in D (k 314)

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(Repeated: Thursday 8.5 pm)

Part 2
Grace Williams Sea Sketches
1.35* Mozart Symphony No 40, in G minor (K 550)
(Public concert from Margam Orangery given on 11 July in association with the Welsh Arts Council). BBC Wales

Arnold Cooke String Quartet No 4 (first performance)
Haydn String Quartet in I flat major, Op 64 No 6
DELME STRING QUARTET

COMBINED CATHEDRAL CHOIRS OF:
SALISBURY
Organist and Master of the Choir RICHARD SEAL CHICHESTER
Organist and Master of the Choristers JOHN BIRCH WINCHESTER
Organist and Master of the Music MARTIN NEARY JOHN BIRCH (organ) IAN FOX (organ)
MICHAEL LAIRD (trumpet)
JOHN WILBRAHAM (trumpet) DAVID CORKHILL (percussion) JOHN JEFFERY (percussion)
Lennox Berkeley A Festival Anthem
Britten Hymn to St Cecilia
John Gardner Sonata da Chiesa (first broadcast performance) Finzl Lo. the full final sacrifice William Mathias Three medieval lyrics (From a public concert recorded in Chichester Cathedral in July 1977) BBC Bristol

Leevi Madetoja Comedy Overture
HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JORMA PANULA
Leif Segerstam Divertimento HELSINKI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by THE composer
Leevi Madetoja Symphony No3 HELSINKI PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by JORMA PANULA gramophone records

The best of present-day jazz on record.
Introduced by Charles Fox

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Work and Training
6.30 School and Community
Presented by DAVID HAWKSWORTH 2: Learning to Work
Many firms complain that young school-leavers lack basic skills. But some schools have introduced imaginative work experience schemes to help prepare students for working life.
7.9 The Prisoners
4: The Closed Prison-Wormwood Scrubs
' The Scrubs ' Is one of the largest prisons in England and Wales. It holds both short-term inmates and maximum security ' long-distance' men. How much ' freedom ' is possible within the perimeter walls? What can be done to encourage prisoners to lead' goodandusefullife">.
Presented by LARRY HELD (RPT

leader MARTIN MILNER conductor JAMES LOUGHRAN with ALFRED BRENDEI. (piano) Part 1 Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor

' When Dr Johnson felt, or fancied he felt, his fancy disordered, his constant recurrence was to the study of arithmetic,' said James Bos well. Arithmetic is perhaps a curious therapy for a man best known as a wit, a writer and a lexicographer. Did Boswell perceive something that literary critics have missed - Johnson's natural aptitude for mathematics?
Written by JOHN CRAIG , Office of Population, Census and Surveys
Presented by Geoff Watts Reader Timothy Bateson Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

Part 2 Bruckner
Symphony No 8, in c minor (ed Haas)
(A public concert given in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, in October 1977) BBC Manchester

This year Dan Davin, the novelist and publisher, retires as Head of the Clarendon Press. Early in his publishing career he commissioned a collection of essays to be called The Character of Ireland and to be edited by the poets, Louis MacNeice and W.R. Rodgers. That book has still to appear.
Narrated by Dan Davin

Third of three weekly Lieder recitals by SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) MARTIN ISEPP (piano)
Eight songs. Op 10 (his first published set, to poems from
Hermann von Gilm's Letzte Blatter ): Zueignung; Nichts; Die Nacht; Geduld; Die Verschwiegenen; Die Georgine; Die Zeitlose; Allerseelen
Four songs, Op 27: Ruhe, meine Seele; Cacilie; Heimliche Aufforderung; Morgen

(guitar)
Bach Suite No 4, in I (BWV 1006a) (Part of a recording of a public recital given in the Royal Festival Hall, London on 20 March 1972)

Erlafsee
RUUD VAN DER MEER (baritone) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)