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First of three programmes of his music
Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite No I
LOS ANGELES CHAMBER ORCHESTRA conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER
Adagio and Variations, for cello and orchestra ANDRE NAVARRA
CZECH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by KAREL ANCERL
Symphonic Poem: Pines of Rome
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by LORIN MAAZEL gramophone records

Listeners' record requests Berlioz Overture: Rob Roy LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ADRIAN BOULT
9.17* Rawsthorne The Old Gumbie Cat: Bustopher Jones: the cat about town; Old Deuteronomy; The Song of the Jellicles (Practical Cats)
ROBERT DONAT (speaker) PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA conducted by THE COMPOSER
9.32. Paganini Violin Concerto No 3, in E
SALVATORE ACCARDO LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT
10.9* Roussel Symphonic Fragments: The spiders banquet
PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by VACLAV NEUMANN gramophone records

Introduced by Michael Oliver
Peter Warlock , musician. by MICHAEL HURD.
From Oxford to Westminster: a conversation with SIMON PRESTON.
The black lion of Venosa: in search of Don Carlo Gesualdo, by DENIS ARNOLD. Producer
CHRISTINE HARDWICK

concert-master
JOSEPH SILVERSTEIN conductor
SEIJI OZAWA
Part 1 Beethoven
Symphony No 4, in B flat major

The Ulster poet Tom Paulin reflects on some of the ways we think about language and the ways we use it (3).

Part 2 Strauss
Symphonic Poem: Ein Heldenleben
(A public concert given in the Usher Hall as part of the 1979 Edinburgh International Festival) BBC Scotland

plaved by JOAQUIN ACHUCARRO (piano) Brahms Variations on & theme of Schumann, Op 9 Schumann Fantasy in C major. Op 17

A music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner (sung in German)
The third part of the ' Ring ' cycle, in which Wagner's perfect fearless hero forges a sword, kills a dwarf and a dragon and wins for himself the all-powerful Ring and Tarnhelm. He shatters Wotan's spear and braves mountain-top flames to waken Brunnhilde from her years of sleep. Cast:
ORCHESTRA OF THE BAYREUTH FESTIVAL conducted by PIERRE BOULEZ
(Bavarian Radio recording from this year's Bayreuth Festival) Act 1
3.29* Interval Reading
3.30*
Siegfried Act 2
4.45* Interval Reading
4.55*
Siegfried Act 3
(Gotterdammerung: next Sunday)

Unmasking Medicine
Last of six talks by Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law and Executive Director of the Centre for Law, Medicine and Ethics at King's College, London
Let's Kill All the Lawyers
This lecture will appear in THE LISTENER dated 11 December. See also Letters page

bv DAVID MERCER (1928-80)
David Mercer , who died in August, was best known as a TV dramatist, but among his major contributions to the stage were the plays Flint, After Haggerty, Belcher's Luck and Ride a Cock Horse. This play, which was first produced in 1965, is a study of the problems faced by a writer from a northern working-class background in adjusting to life, love and success in London.
Directed by CHARLES LEFEAUX
(First broadcast in 196S)

leader JAMES COLES conducted by VERNON HANDLEY
MICHAEL DALBERTO (piano) Part 1
Kodaly Dances of Marosszek
Ravel Piano Concerto in G major

by COLIN MCLAREN
A series of six adventures recounted by academics at the Scottish University of Fraserburgh
3:The Man Who KnewNot Fear Read by Michael Hordern
Producer LOUISE PURSLOW

Part 2 Derek Bourgeois Wine Symphony
(A public concert given in October 1979 in the Guildhall, Southampton) BBC Bristol

conductor JOHN POOLE
Geoffrey Bush Music when soft voices die
Elgar There is sweet music