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A series of eight programmes devoted to the Latin church music of the great Tudor composers, each one including a setting of the Mass.
Today's programme includes:
Tallis Mass: Puer natus: the CLERKES OF OXENFORD, directed by DAVID WULSTAN : records

Handel Harp Concerto In flat. Op 4 No 6; NICANOR ZABA-LETA: KUENTZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by PAUL KUENTZ
9.19* Campra De Profundis SOLOISTS
PHILIPPE CAILLARD VOCAL ENSEMBLE, STEPHANE CAILLAT CHORALE. JEAN-FRANCOIS PAILLARD ORCHESTRA, conducted by JEAN-FRANÇOIS PAILLARD
9.42* Coleridge-Taylor Clarinet Quintet, in F sharp minor CEORGINA DOBRÉE
AMICI STRING QUARTET
10.10- a musical tribute to Kathleen Ferrier , who died 25 years ago today. She is the soloist in Brahms Alto Rhapsody (mono) With LONDON PHILHARMONIC CHOIR LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by CLEMENS KRAUSS gramophone records

Introduced by Michael Oliver A Wagner Edition
'The form changes, the content is eternal ': William Mann discusses changing attitudes to producing The Ring.
Wotan at Bayreuth and Covent Garden, a conversation with DONALD MCINTYRE.
Wagner, as seen by his contemporaries.

leader EDWIN PALING conducted by JANOS FORST
Bach, orch Webern Ricercare a 6 (The Musical Offering)
Stravinsky Ballet Suite: IA baiser de la fée

The sociologist Professor A. H. Halsey. BBC Manchester
(Repeated: Thursday 2.25 pm)

Part 2 Nielsen Symphony No 6 (A public concert recorded in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, in September 1977) BBC Scotland

The Final of this year's
International Amateur Choral Competition
Bernard Keeffe introduces the six prize-winning choirs, and Charles Beardsall announces the winner of the BBC Silver Rose Bowl for 1978. the award for the most outstanding choir. School Class - Korea:
WORLD VISION CHILDREN'S CHOIR Youth Class - Hungary:
FERENC LISZT CHAMBER CHOIR
Equal Voice Class - Finland: HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CHORUS
Mixed Voice Class - Sweden: STOCKHOLM CHAMBER CHOIR
Large Choir Class - Canada: VANCOUVER BACH CHOIR
Contemporary Music Class —
Hungary: BUDAFOK CHAMBER CHOIR

Antony Hopkins
(Repeated: Monday 9.45 am)

(II rltorno d'Ullsse in patria) Opera in three acts
Music by Monteverdi Libretto by GIACOMO BADOARO A new edition prepared by ROGER NORRINGTON
Sung in the English translation by ANNE RIDLER
KENT OPERA CHORUS
KENT OPERA ORCHESTRA, conductor ROGER NORRINGTON. Act 1

The Italian Universities have been described as operating on ' a tacit accord that the professors don't teach and the students don't attend.'
Jonathan Steinberg discusses the disastrous consequences of rapid expansion of the system in a society which is at present not equipped to take advantage of it.

Act 2
4.30* Interval Reading
4.35* The Return of Ulysses Act 3

Young Nigerian writers are beginning to exploit the possibilities of drama for change in contemporary society. Gerald Moore. Professor of English at the University of Port Harcourt, argues that theatre is the most likely means by which the artist can contribute to a new consciousness. Taking part: Glenna Forster - Jones, Christopher Asante , Willie Jonah and Kwesi Kay
Producer JUDITH BUMPUS

Dvorak Piano Trio in G minor, Op 26

3: Consensus and the CIA
' The CIA seems to be a juvenile delinquent of American foreign policy.'
Harry Ransom, Professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University argues that the CIA can succeed only if it returns to the brief Congress gave it in 1947. BBC Manchester

Christian Wolff in London
The American experimental composer Christian Wolff introduces some of his recent music, recorded during a visit to London earlier this year.
The ensemble Exercises and Songs are performed by a group including the composer, and the solo instrumental pieces by JOHN TILBURY (piano) and IAN MITCHELL (clarinet) Exercise 2; Song: After a few years; Exercise 6; Exercise 15. for piano (preceded by the Woody Guthrie song Union Maid on which it is based);
Exercise 16, for piano; Dark as a Dungeon (clarinet) (preceded by the Merle Travis song on which it is based); Exercise 7; Song: Teacher, teacher; Exercise 10 (first broadcast performances in this country)

The Flower of Immortality by MARGARET ROSE . With Nigel Anthony as Gilgamesh and Stephen Rea as Enkidu Gilgamesh , King of Uruk, rules for seven years before he has to marry the Goddess Inanna and go to his death. The young man goes on a search for a Flower of Immortality and takes with him on his journey his twin self Enkidu. This. one of the oldest myths known, pre-dates the stories of the Illiad by 1500 years. The place is Sumeria
Sound by PADDY KINGSLAND of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Directed by LIANE AUKIN

London Symphony Orchestra leader RICHARD STUDT conducted by Eugen Jochum
A concert given earlier this evening in the Royal Festival Hall. London
Beethoven Symphony No 1. in c

2: Culture in the Provinces
J. H. Plumb Professor Emeritus of Modern English History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College, analyses the development of artistic sensibility In the prosperous market towns of England, at a time when even Boston in Lincolnshire had two theatres and the quantities of bad amateur verse written and printed boggles the mind.'

Bruckner Symphony No 7, in I

A reverie by VIRGINIA WOOLF spoken by Sheila Mitchell
Producer BARBARA CROWTHER

an Introduction?
An unusual ' analysis ' of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungs by Anna Russell

Traveller's song to the moon (Der Wanderer an den Mond: English translation by Leslie Kinchin) - Elizabeth Gale (sop) Paul Hamburger (piano)