Handel. arr Beecham
Ballet Suite: The Origin of Design (mono)
LONDON PHILHARMONIC orchestra, conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
8.14. Poulenc Les soirees de Nazelles
JACQUES fevrier (piano)
8.30* Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor. Op 64 KYUNG-WHA CHUNG
MONTREAL SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA, conducted by CHARLES DUTOIT : records

Presented by Paul Vaughan Building a Library: Bach's Goldberg Variations by LIONEL SALTER.
New orchestral records reviewed by GEOFFREY NORRIS.
Producer arthuh jobnson

Falla Ballet: The Three-cornered Hat: FREDERICA VON STADE (mezzo-soprano) PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by ANDRE PREVIN
Strauss Metamorphosen BERLIN PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by HERBERT VON KARAJAN Gramophone records

conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD and ARTHUR BUTTERWORTH
NIGEL KENNEDY (violin) Sibelius Flnlandla
Arthur Butterworth Violin Concerto
12.10* Interval Reading
12.15* Vaughan Williams Symphony No 5, in D
(Given in the Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow.)

Last of three programmes ROBERT SHERLAW JOHNSON (piano)
Messiaen Le merle bleu; Le traquet stapazin; Le courlis cendré
(Catalogue d'oiseaux)
Robert Sherlaw Johnson Piano Sonata No 3 BBC Birmingham

The fifth of a series of 16 programmes of his music introduced by Robert Simpson
Saul and David (FS 25) An opera in four acts sung in English: records
DANISH RADIO CHORUS and Members of the JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR (chorus-master JOHN ALLDIS )
DANISH RADIO SYMPHONY orchestra, conducted by JASCHA HORENSTEIN Acts 1 and 2

The first of two cycles of poems about Wales in which the theme is the landscape and the way it reflects and influences historic events. The poets include JOHN DYER , IDRIS DAVIES , R. S. THOMAS and the medieval bard
LLYWELYN GOCH
Readers Ray Smith and Dilys Price
(Music by the BBC
Radiophonic Workshop)
Producer HERBERT WILLIAMS BBC Wales
(Tomorrow: A Breath Before the Fall)

Saul and David Acts 3 and 4

with Peter Clayton

A weekly discussion on cinema, theatre, books, broadcasting and the visual arts.
John Spurllng (In the Chair) talks with Robert Cushman , Chris Dunkley and Marghanita Laski. This week's subjects:
Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley at the Bush Theatre. Seneca's Oedipus in the Ted Hughes version on Radio 3: ' Paintings, Drawings and Structures 1966-1983 ' by John Carter at the Warwick Arts Trust,
Ptmlico. The Ploughman's Lunch, a film scripted by Ian McEwan and directed by Richard Eyre. The Last Supper, an espionage novel by Charles McCarry.
Producer PHILIP FRENCH

EILEEN CROXFORD (cello) DAVID PARKHOUSE (pianO) Mendelssohn Variations Concertantes, Op 17 Pizzetti Tre Canti Joaquin Nin Suite Espagnole

' The situation now is so mixed up that it makes It very difficult for the writer to have the old role of the carrier of a banner. Which banner and in which direction? ' The tradition which requires an Arab writer to reflect public consensus as much as private emotion has become increasingly difficult and dangerous in the turbulence of modern
Arab politics. Dr Robin Oslle of the School of Oriental Studies, talks to Arab writers and critics about the problems they face and describes how their attitudes have changed in order to survive.
Producer THOMAS SUTCLIFFE

leader
Jost LUIS GARCIA conducted by GUSTAV KUHN ELIZABETH HARWOOD (soprano) Part
Mozart Serenade in c (K 525) (Eine kleine
Nachtmusik); Concert arias: Bella mla flamma: Resta, o cara (k 528); Voi avete un cor fidele (K 217)

The novelist and film critic Clancy Sigal has spent the past year in Los Angeles where he is now Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Southern California. In this epistolary talk he reports on social trends and cultural tendencies in the film community and the city at large, drawing on a knowledge of local life that goes back to his days as a student at UCLA and a script editor at Columbia Studios.

Part 2
Mozart Serenade in D (Posthorn) (K 320)
(Concert given on 26 January in the Queen Elizabeth Hall , London in association with Merban Ltd)

' Victor Hugo was a playwright, a novelist, a politician, a diarist: but he is first and foremost a poet - the finest of all the French romantics'.
Harry Guest , translator of the first substantial selection of Hugo's poetry to appear in English for over 80 years, Introduces a choice of poems read in French and In translation by Olivier Pierre and Gary Watson.
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester

A 34-part series Presented by Anthony Rooley
15: Richard Carlton
Madrigals to five voyces (1601)
The love of change; From stately towers;
Like as the gentle heart; If women can be courteous: Sound saddest notes; E'en as the flowers
CONSORT OF M'ISICKE MADRIGAL ENSEMBLE directed by ANTHONY ROOLEY