for the deaf and hard of hearing
A look at the news of the week with film from all over the world and a commentary that can be seen as well as heard.

Piano Concerto No.5, in E flat
Played by Paul Badura Skoda
With the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Leader, Rodney Friend
Conducted by Constantin Silvestri
The programme opens with Walton's Partita for Orchestra
Part of a public concert from the Royal Festival Hall, London

A ballet by Kenneth MacMillan.
Concerto for harpsichord and small orchestra
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Leader, Hugh Bean
Conducted by John Lanchbery
Harpsichord played by George Malcolm

After the funeral of their father, five sisters, imprisoned at home by their mother, await the arrival of the eldest sister's fiance, the local gigolo. All five see in him a means of escape.
(Ray Barra, Marcia Haydee, and Ruth Papendick appear by arrangement with the Stuttgart State Theatre Ballet; Sheila Humphreys, Jennifer Layland, Monica Mason and Georgina Parkinson by arrangement with the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)
See page 15

by George Eliot.
Dramatised in four parts by Rosemary Anne Sisson.
Recorded in the BBC's Glasgow studio
To be repeated on Wednesday at 8.30

See page 15

France's civil servant-technocrats are almost a legend: men of initiative and dynamism who shaped her future while the politicians squabbled. Armand is the most famous of them all-the great moderniser with a clear and steady eye on the needs of people rather than just the capabilities of machines.
Commentary written by Antony Jay.
Spoken by Derek Cooper.

Leading conductors from Britain and America present the music they compose and arrange.

This week: Stanley Black and his Orchestra
with The Michael Sammes Singers
First transmission on June 28, 1964

Round off the day with Denis Tuohy, Michael Dean, Nicholas Tresilian and tonight's guests.