Today's story: "Hiccups" by Jean Watson

(Repeated on BBC1 at 4.10 pm)
(Colour)

A series of seven programmes

A discussion on the implications of the Robens Report on Health and Safety at Work.
Chairman Professor Gordon Atherley, University of Aston

with Clive Jacobs
Reporting the world tonight with the BBC's reporters and correspondents at home and abroad
Weather

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
BBC outside broadcast cameras bring you the concert to mark the founding of the BBC in 1922; given before an invited audience in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Duke and Duchess of Kent

Part 1
Sir Adrian Boult conducts
Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music
Heather Harper (soprano), Sybil Michelow (mezzo-soprano), John Elwes (tenor),
Michael Rippon (bass-baritone)
Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor
Paul Tortelier (cello)

Interval
The Earl of Harewood traces the role music has played in the last 50 years of broadcasting.
(Heather Harper's Choice: page 5)

8-30* Part 2
Pierre Boulez conducts
Ravel Shehgrazade
Heather Harper (soprano)
Berlioz Romeo and Juliet: Love Scene; Queen Mab Scherzo; Romeo's Reverie and Feast of the Capulets

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(leaders Bela Dekany, Eli Goren)
BBC Chorus, BBC Choral Society
Introduced by Richard Baker
(Also on Radio 3 in stereo)

by Christopher Fry
Starring Lynn Farleigh as Dynamene, William Gaunt as Tegeus, Julia Sutton as Doto, Bruce Purchase as Virilius

Petronius's tale of the Ephesian widow who decided to die upon her husband's tomb in the company of a faithful waiting-maid is given a witty and thought-provoking treatment in Christopher Fry's verse drama.

This production by the Stockton and District YMCA at their Dovecot Arts Centre has received international critical acclaim.

Having knocked out Hull and Swinton, Trinity take on a determined Keighley.

Weather

Bob Harris with the news, views and sounds of today's music.
In the studio Crowbar and Gladys Knight and the Pips