and Weather Forecast

London Light
CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GILBERT VINTER with JOHN WILLIAMS (guitar)

and Weather Forecast

Overture in Di major
(Boccherini)
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by SIR THOMAS BEECHAM
9.12* Rondo in B flat major, for piano and orchestra (Beethoven)
SVIATOSLAV RlCHTER with the VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KURT SANDERLING
9.22' Ballet Music (Otello)
(Verdi)
BERLIN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FERENC FRICSAY on gramophone records

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Haydn's Symphony No. 104, in D major (London) by DAVID LLOYD-JONES Recent Opera: MARK LUBBOCK
Music by Alexander Goehr and Tinpett: ROBERT HENDERSON

on the operatic stage Gramophone records Introduced by John Amis
This week:
AU's Fair in Love and War

Nigel Coxe (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader, Erich Gruenberg Conducted by Trevor Harvey
From the Royal Festival Hall, London

and his Orchestra in excerpts from the record
Such Sweet Thunder

with ROBIN BOYLE
12.30* SPORTS PARADE
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
Weather Forecast at 12.55
CRICKET
1.0 : 2.5 : 3.45
Fifth Test Match
South Africa v. England
Commentary by CHARLES FORTUNE , BRIAN JOHNSTON , and SYD LEVEY with comments by JACKIE NEL
From Port Elizabeth
A relay of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's transmission
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ATHLETICS
1.45 Talking Sport
† NEIL DURDEN-SMITH talks to
MARY RAND
RUGBY UNION
2.50 : 3.15 : 4.5
Ireland v. England
Commentary on this afternoon's International by SAMMY WALKER and ALAN GIBSON with summaries by Peter YARRANTON
From Lansdowne Road. Dublin
RACING
3.0 Stone's Ginger Wine Steeplechase over two miles and a half
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY with a summary by ROGER MORTIMER
From Sandown Park
4.50* Racing Results
4.35 ASSOCIATION
FOOTBALL
Commentary by GERALD SINSTADT during the second half of one of today's English League matches followed by football results as they come in, direct from the BBC Sports Room
5.0* SPORTS REPORT
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
Produced by ANGUS MACKAY
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50

Prélude, Adagio et Chorale varié sur le Vent Creator, Op. 4 played by THE COMPOSER
Organ of Soissons Cathedral on a gramophone record

Until the First World War rural life in Great Britain had altered very little since the early Middle Ages. In this programme old countrymen from East Anglia-farm workers and their wives, farmers, tradesmen, and others-recall a way of living and working and an attitude to life which disappeared with the coming of the internal combustion engine.
Introduced by GEORGE EWART EVANS
Produced by DAVID THOMSON In the BBC's Norwich studios
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.2S

From the Town Hall, Leeds
In association with the City of Leeds
Music Committee
Alexander Young (tenor)
Douglas Moore (horn)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Led by Norman Nelson Conducted by Walter Susskind
Part I
Overture:

Daniel Boorstin gives the third of four commentaries on current affairs by American visitors in this fortnightly series
Professor Boorstin teaches history at the University of Chicago and is currently Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Trinity College, Cambridge.
February 27:
William E. Channing

Part 2

Turandot
An illustrated study In the origins of Puccini's opera by HANNS HAMMELMANN and MICHAEL ROSE with Cyril Cusack as Puccini
Readers,
ROLF LEFEBVRE JONATHAN SCOTT and FELIX FELTON
Narration by JOHN GLEN Piano illustrations by FREDERICK STONE
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
A performance of Turandot from Covent Garden: Friday at
7.30 p.m.