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BOYD NEEL ORCHESTRA
Leader, Lionel Bentley
Conducted by BRYAN FAIRFAX
Romance, in C major....Sibelius
8.11* Divertimento, in D major

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Variations and fugue on a merry theme of Hiller .Reger
NETHERLANDS RADIO
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILLEM VAN OTTERLOO
Recording made available by courtesy of the Netherlands Radio Union

WILFRED BROWN (tenor) JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar)
MUSICA DA CAMERA

Excerpts from
Emmerich Kalman 's operetta sung in German by a cast including: MARIKA NEMETH as Countess Maritza
PETER MINICH as Count Tassilo
HERBERT PRIKOPA as Baron Zsupan and MONIKA DAHLBERG as Lisa with the VIENNA VOLKSOPER
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA conducted by ANTON PAULIK on a gramophone record

JEANETTE SINCLAIR (soprano)
JOHN DOBSON (tenor)
HUGH MAGUIRE (Yiolin)
NORMAN NELSON (violin)
BBC CHORUS
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader. Hugh Maguire
Conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR and SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Part

Ϯ BEnNARD KEEFFE looks at some of the outstanding musical events that are taking place in London and the next weekend and are not being broadcast

Part
Conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent
This Promenade Concert was broadcast in the Third Programme on August 7. 1963 followed by an interlude

50-80 words a minute
Compiled by MARY DE LA MAHOTIERE
For those who want to keep up or improve their speeds in any system
Reporting speeds: Wednesdays 6.30
80 words a minute to verbatim: Saturdays. 11.20 a.m. (Home)

A series of forty lessons for beginners or near beginners
Lesson 15: Le cocktail
Introduced by KATIA ELLIS with the help of LOUIS BLONCOURT
Written and produced by ELSIE FERGUSON
Language consultant, PAUL COUSTER
Repeated on Friday at 7.4
A booklet and records are available

World population by L. DUDLEY STAMP
Professor Emeritus of Social Geography, University of London
Produced by ROSEMARY JELLIS
A booklet is available

2: Ancient Themes in Eastern Europe by A. L. LLOYD
Reader, Julian Glover
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON Myths of the sun and moon. legends of drawon-fighters, tales of Byzantine champions so huge that mares could stable in their nostrils, are among the subjects of epics still sung in the villages of south-eastern Europe. The programme includes recordings made as recently as February 1963.
Second broadcast

HEATHER HARPER (soprano)
JANET BAKER (contralto)
RONALD DOWD (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
Choir trained by JOHN ALLDIS
HAYDN ORCHESTRA
Leader, Joshua Glazier
Conductor, HARRY NEWSTONE
Part
Symphony No.8, in F major

1: Samuel Richardson by PROFESSOR IAN WATT of the Department of English, Stanford University
The first of a series of six talks on the relationship between artistic achievement and technical innovation in the main tradition of the English novel.
Recorded for the BBC at Stan. ford, California
Christopher Ricks on Laurence Sterne : Januaru 31

Part 2
Symphony No. 9, in D minor

by ERIC RHODE
Some reflections on the ideas of Adrian Stokes , writer on art and painter
Adrian Stokes 's newly published book The invitation in Art is. he claims, his final word on certain themes relating to form in art. What are these themes and how has he developed them over the last thirty years?
An exhibition of Adrian Stokes 's paintings Is on view at the Mariborough Fine Art Gallery. London

Today's overseas commodity and financial news. London Stock Market closing report

Elizabethan Government and Society
Eight lectures given by JOEL HURSTFIELD , Astor Professor of English History in the University of London, at the University of East Anglia
2: The Structure of Society
The middle years of the sixteenth century were years of galloping inflation in England. In his second lecture, Professor Hurstfield examines what effect this had not only on different sectors of the community but on the whole mental outlook of the Elizabethans.
Produced by HOWARD SMITH