After a sleigh ride with Delius, Aubade embarks on a winter journey, by courtesy of Prince Albert. Soon April arrives -
Tchaikovsky warming the heart for A Summer Day with Prokofiev. This seasonal programme concludes with the autumnal tones of Chaminade and Glazunov. gramophone record*

Introduced by Paul Vaughan
Building a Library:
Beethoven's Archduke Trio. by NOËL Goodwin. 100 years of stereo:
ANTONY ASKEW on the early demonstrations by Clement Ader.
New orchestral records reviewed by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
Producer ARTHUR JOHNSON

MacCunn Overture: The Land of the Mountain and the Flood
SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA conducted by SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
Sibelius Symphony No 2, in D
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN gramophone records

YORKSHIRE IMPERIAL BAND conductor
JOHN PRYCE-JONES
Henze Ragtimes and habaneras
Derek Bourgeois Blitz (first broadcast performance)
BBC Manchester

The Very Rev Lawrence Jackson , Provost of Blackburn, introduces records of some of his favourite music.

Presented by Lionel Salter Johannes Ockcghem
PETER DAVIES introduces the first of four programmes containing all his surviving secular music performed by the MEDIEVAL ENSEMBLE OF LONDON
From the Troubadours to
Monteverdi IAN HARWOOD looks at a new dictionary of early music to be published on Monday. The Lute Society celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. The pioneering and continuing work of this and other societies in the study of instruments and the performance of early music is discussed by DIANA POULTON. IAN HARWOOD , ANTHONY BAINES , WALTER BERGMANN. GORDON DODD , JEREMY MONTAGU and JOHN THOMSON.

Nicholas Anderson presents his choice of recent music broadcasts. Producer ELIZABETH JOHN SON

with Peter Clayton

Edward Lucie-Smith tin the Chair) talks with Robert Cushman , Clancy Sigal and Marina Warner. The Double Man, a portrait of W. H. Auden on Radio 3.
Between Here and Now: poems by R. S. Thomas. Borderline by Hanif Kureishi , a Joint Stock Company production at the Royal Court Theatre. Goya's Prints at the British Museum. Walter Hills film, Southern Comfort.

with Stephen Dodgson LEO WITOSZYNSKYJ and TIMOTHY WALKER play music by Soler. Weber, Sor and Jean Absil followed by an interlude

(La Forza del destino)
Opera in four acts
Music by Verdi. Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE
English version based on the translation by ANDREW PORTER
The new Welsh National Opera production, direct from the New Theatre, Cardiff
Chorus of Welsh National Opera, chorus-master JULlAN SMITH. Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, leader JOHN STEIN conducted by Richard Armstrong
(An Amoco Festival presentation)
Part 1

by LAWRENCE SAIL
The Earl of Albemarle and Mr G. Lacy Hillier wrote a popular guide to bicycling which ran through five editions by 1895. Lawrence Sail contrasts its aristocratic but robust style with somewhat more sentimental modern works on the subject
Read by Esmond Rideout , Howard (ioorney and Elizabeth Havelock
Producer BRIAN MILLER BBC Bristol followed by an interlude

Part 2

by KAREL CAPEK translated by DORA ROUND
The first of ten vignettes giving new and humorous twists to the lives of classical, biblical and literary figures.
Read by Bill Wallis
Producer PAT TRUEMAN
(Alexander the Great: Tuesday at 10.50 pm)

Our town: LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA, conducted by THE COMPOSER: record