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The first in a series of nine programmes featuring music from 18th-century England Boyce Symphony No 5, In D: BOURNEMOUTH
SINFONIETTA, directed by RONALD THOMAS
Greene Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end ST ALBANS ABBEY CHOIR directed by PETER HURFORD Babell Recorder Concerto in D: FRANS BRÜGGEN
(recorder) with ensemble directed by GUSTAV
LEONHARDT (harpsichord) Arne Cantata: Bacchus and Ariadne
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS, conducted by NEVILLE MARRINER Croft Suite No 3 In c minor: TREVOR PINNOCK (harpsichord)
Gemlnlanl Concerto Grosso In B flat, Op 3
NO 5: ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC, directed by CHRISTOPHER HOGWOOD gramophone records

Contributors

Directed By:
Ronald Thomas
Directed By:
Peter Hurford
Conducted By:
Neville Marriner
Harpsichord:
Trevor Pinnock
Directed By:
Christopher Hogwood

with Michael Oliver
The Long Arm of Tristan: STEPHEN DODGSON investigates;
PAUL ROBERTSON of the Medici Quartet reviews The String Quartet by Paul Griffiths ;
1 Not really lambkins frisking': MICHAEL KENNEDY considers
Vaughan Williams's Third and Fourth Symphonies and links between them. Producer GRAHAM SHEFFIELD

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Oliver
Unknown:
Stephen Dodgson
Unknown:
Paul Robertson
Unknown:
Paul Griffiths
Unknown:
Michael Kennedy

AMSTERDAM BAROQUE ORCHESTRA director TON KOOPMAN (harpsichord) MICHEL HENRI
(oboe d'amore)
Bach Suite No 1 in c major (BWV 1066)
Telemann Oboe d'amore Concerto In A major Bach Harpsichord
Concerto In A major (BWV 1055)
2.45* Interval Reading
2.35* Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4, In G
Telemann Tafelmusik: Overture; Minuet; Conclusion
(Public concert given on 25 August in St Illtyd's
Church, Llantwit Major) BBC Wales

Contributors

Oboe:
Michel Henri
Harpsichord:
Bach Harpsichord

Ruth Libretto by ERIC CROZIER , based on the Old Testament story
Narrator RONALD HARVI BBC NORTHERN SINGERS BBC PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA, conducted by STEUART BEDFORD
(First broadcast in 1968)

Contributors

Unknown:
Ruth Libretto
Unknown:
Eric Crozier
Narrator:
Ronald Harvi
Conducted By:
Steuart Bedford
Naomi, a widow:
Elisabeth Robinson (sop)
Her daughters-in-law: Ruth:
Alfreda Hodgson
Orpah:
Soo-Bee Lee
Boaz, her kinsman:
Peter Pears (tenor)
Head Reaper:
Thomas Hemsley (bar)

Artificial intelligence research is dominated by the idea that large computers driven by complicated programs will eventually be able to simulate human behaviour. John Searle , Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, believes that this approach cannot succeed In producing a thinking machine.
In the last of five programmes, Professor Searle discusses his objections with Colin Blakemore , Professor of Physiology at Oxford University.
Producer GEOFF DEEHAN

Contributors

Unknown:
John Searle
Unknown:
Colin Blakemore
Producer:
Geoff Deehan

(born 23 October 1923) Second of two programmes
BBC SINGERS conductor JOHN POOLE JOHN SCOTT (organ) Surge, illuminare Canticles. Set II
From A Quaker Reader for organ: ' Bewitching attire of the most charming simplicity ...'; ' There Is a spirit that delights to do no evil....' Three Motets (on poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins)
(All first UK broadcasts)

Contributors

Conductor:
John Poole
Conductor:
John Scott

by TED MOORE
' Three quick years In
London as an unqualified osteopath and you come back with a reject from the knacker's yard.
Footballer? Him? It's like Jason coming home with a clip mat Instead of the Golden Fleece ...'
Directed by TONY CLIFF
BBC Manchester

Contributors

Unknown:
Ted Moore
Directed By:
Tony Cliff
Willy:
Alan Hockey
Miriam:
Adrienne Frank
Eric:
Arthur Blake
Sam:
Edward Wilson
Nelly:
Lizzie McKenzie
Little Nettie:
Christian Rodska
Hannah:
Kathleen Helme
Girl:
Denise Welch

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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