medium only
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Tchaikovsky Overture-Fantasia: Romeo and Juliet
7.27' Johann Strauss Waltz: The Blue Danube conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN
7.37* Respighi Symphonic Poem: Pines of Rome conducted by LORIN MAAZEL gramophone records
Rameau Suite: Les Fetes d'Hebe ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by RAYMOND LEPPARD
8.24* Faure Pavane, Op 50 NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES GERHARDT
8.30* Francaix Petit Quatuor pour Saxophones KREIN SAXOPHONE QUARTET
8.38* Debussy Poeme Dansé: Jeux: NEW PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA, conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
(records)
Sullivan
Overture di hallo
9.17' Symphony in E (Irishl ROYAL LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, conducted by SIR CHARLES GROVES : records
MICHAEL RIPPON (bass-baritone) JOSEPHINE MCKIMMIE (piano)
Purcell Ye twice ten hundred deities
Handel Revenge! Timotheus cries
Loewe Archibald Douglas; Die Uhr
Elgar Is she not passing fair?
Cyril Rootham The Ballad of Kingslea Mere
Francis Toye The Inn
Aian Gibbs Five Elizabethan Songs
BBC Manchester
medium only: VHF programmes between these times are shown on facing page
The Third Test in the Cornhill
Series England v New Zealand
Commentary from Lord's on the fifth and final day's play
1.35* News
1.40* The Arts Worldwide
2.0* Lunchtime scoreboard
2.10* 6.30 Commentary: teatime and close-of-play summaries
(medium only)
6.30 The Politics of Economics: 2: How Good Did We Have It!
Six programmes presented by Dominick Harrod
Did our apparent affluence of the 1950s and 60s distract us from anticipating changes that have contributed to our difficulties in the 1970s?
Book, same title, £1.50 from bookshops
7.0 Get By in French: 1: Getting Something to Drink
with Benedicte Paviot and Daniel Pageon
Saying hello, how are you; asking for a cup of tea or coffee, or a beer.
Course writer CELIA WEBER
Series producers CHRISTOPHER STONE and EDITH BAER
Study Booklet £1.00; two cassettes £6.16 from bookshops
Prelude élégiaque sur Ie nom d'Havdn
Variations, Interlude et Finale sur un thèm de Rameau
La plainte, au loin, du faune (pour le tombeau de Debussy) YVONNE LEFEBURE (piano)
August 1985
A Future' History by General Sir John Hackett and others, which has recently been published, suggests that a major conventional war culminating in a nuclear strike will eventually occur between East and West. Professor Laurence Martin. Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. examines the plausibility of the political and military scenario suggested by this ' cautionary tale ' and questions some of the authors' assumptions about the relation between nuclear and conventional weapons. followed by an interlude
From the Royal Albert Hall
A recording of tonight's Promenade Concert which began at 7.0 pm
Tragedie lyrique in five acts
Libretto attributed to Cahusac
Monteverdi Choir
Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord continuo) Jonathan Hinden (harpsichord continuo) Marilyn Sansom (cello continuo)
Monteverdi Orchestra, leader Nona Liddell, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Acts 1 and 2
Robert Latham. Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and librarian of the Pepys Library, who has recently completed a 25-year project editing Pepys's Diary, examines its history and its appeal to the wider reading public.
Rameau: Les Boreades Acts 3 and 4
11.5* Interval Reading
11.10* Proms 78
Rameau: Les Boreades, Act 5
(Stereo)
Himmelsfunken
JOHN SHlRLEY-QUIRK (baritone) MARTIN isepp (piano)