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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, as well as organ music of the period played by THURSTON DART and others, and some shorter liturgical pieces: Antiphons. Responds and Motets.
Today's programme includes: Tye Mass, Euge Bone
CHOIR OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE directed by SIR DAVID WILLCOCKS gramophone records

Mercadante Flute Concerto In E minor
JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL
I SOLISTI VENETI directed by CLAUDIO SCIMONE
9.25* Donizetti Mad Scene from Act 2 (Lucia di Lammermoor) JOAN SUTHERLAND (soprano)
PARIS CONSERVATOIRE ORCHESTRA conducted by NELLO SANTI
9.41* Balakirev Oriental Fantasy: Islamey
RONALD SMITH (piano)
9.50* Diabelll Trio for flute, viola and guitar (mono) POUL BIRKELUND (flute)
RICHARD DAHL ERIKSEN (viola) ULRIK NEUMANN (guitar)
10.2* Chaminade Pas des écharpes: Air de ballet (from Callirhoe, Op 37) (mono) LEOPOLD GODOWSKY (piano)
10.6* Dvorak Te Deum. Op 103 MARIA OLIVARES (soprano) GIANNI MAFFEO (baritone)
CZECH PHILHARMONIC CHORUS PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV SMETACEK Gramophone records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Eugene d'Albert: pianist and composer by JEREMY SIEPMANN
Howard Ferguson : a 70th birthday conversation.
The Pleasures of Wexford: by WILLIAM MANN
Producer CHRISTINE HARDWICK

THE PARIS ORCHESTRA « conducted by DANIEL BARENBOIM Part 1 Debussy Three symphonic sketches: La mer

The sociologist, Professor A. H. Halsey. reflects on some of the things we say and write. BBC Manchester
(Repealed: Thursday 3.30 pm)

Part 2 Berlioz
Symphonie fantastique
(Recording made available by courtesy of Austrian Radio)

(soprano)
Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Szymanowski Songs of the Passionate Muezzin, Op 42
Strauss Six Songs, Op 67; Lied der Frauen, from Op 68 followed by an interlude

Antony Hopkins discusses a work or theme of current interest.
(Repeated: Monday 9.55 am)

Oratorio by Haydn (sung in German)
HELEN DONATH (soprano) ROBERT TEAR (tenor) JOSE VAN DAM (bass)
LESLIE PEARSON (harpsichord continuo)
PHILHARMONIA CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by RAFAEL FRUHBECK DE BURGOS gramophone records

A Story No One Else Can Tell
' Storytelling has become a neglected art in our time. I'm an old-fashioned writer; I know the story will outlive all the explanations and all the commentaries.'
Paul Bailey talks to the Nobel Prize-winning, Yiddish-American author about his work. and discusses Singer's place in contemporary fiction with Saul Bellow , Malcolm Bradbury , John Gross and Dan Jacobson Reader LEE MONTAGUE
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

(piano)
Part 1 Beethoven
Sonata in G major, Op 49 No 2 Sonata in B flat major, Op 22

Adrian Roscoe , Professor of English at the University of Malawi, discusses some of the themes of recent Black South African writing and looks in particular at the work of Oswald Mtshali , Ezekiel Mphahlele and Alex La Guma.

Part 2 Beethoven
Sonata in c flat major, Op 27 No 1: Sonata in c minor. Op 111 (Part of a public concert given in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London, on 21 February 1977)

Alan Bennett reads a very short story by ANTON CHEKHOV translated by HARVEY RITCHER and JAMES FORSYTH

STEPHEN VARCOE (baritone) PARK LANE MUSIC PLAYERS Judith Pearce (flute)
Christopher O'Neal (oboe) Roger Garland (violin) Ross Pople (cello) conductor MICHAEL LANKESTER
Nigel Osborne I am Goya. for baritone, flute, oboe, violin and cello (first broadcast performance, Radcliffe Music Award, 1977: first prize)
George Newsom In my quiet moments, for flute (first broadcast performance)
Edwin Roxburgh Partita , for cello
Judith Weir Black Birdsong, for baritone, flute, oboe, violin and cello (first broadcast performance, Radcliffe Music Award, 1977: joint second prize)

Night Thoughts and Terminal by CORINNE JACKER
A double-bill from America
In the first play, two women struggle to cope with each other, while one of them Insists on her need to be wired to a hank of medical gadgets. In Terminal the author's ironic them* is developed: Steven, newly admitted to hospital, faces the smothering demands of a long-standing patient who claims that his case is terminal, Night Thoughts
Directed by MICHAEL HEFFERNAN

leader BRENDAN O'BRIEN conducted by VOLKER WANGENHEIM
PIERRE AMOYAL (violin) Part 1 Mozart
Violin Concerto In D (K 218)

The Moscow Years, the diaries of Veljko Micunovic , formerly Yugoslav ambassador to Moscow, have been in the Yugoslav best-sellers list for months in spite of the fact that no review and no publicity have appeared. In the first of two talks reviewing the book, Christopher Cviic concentrates on Micunovic's account of the Soviet intervention in Hungary In 1956 and the execution of Imre Nagy 20 years ago.

Part 2 Bruckner Symphony No 4, in E flat (Romantic)

Ofallthepoetswritingin Russia today, it is Bella Akhma dulina who most explicitly acknowledges a debt to her great predecessors, Anna Akh matova and Marina Tsvetayeva. In her final programme on women and poetry in the Soviet Union, the poet and novelist Elaine Feinstein looks at the work of Bella Akhmadulina , with readings recorded during Akhmadulina's visit to Paris in 1977. Reader FRANCES HOROVITZ Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester followed by an Interlude

Tiefes Lied
RUUD VAN DER MEER (barbone) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)
A Winter's Journey will be BBCtu's main contribution to Schubert Year It's a feature-length film biography which will be shown on BBC2 on the 150th anniversary of his death, 19 November. The film is built round a performance of Winterreise sung in German. The text of the songs in the film, together with translations in English, is available from [address removed](please enclose a large stamped, self-addressed envelope)