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NORTHERN SINFONIA
Led by Joseph Segal
Conducted by MICHAEL HALL
DAVID HASLAM (flute)

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Excerpts from the Stabat Mater sung by MARIA STADER , MARIANNA RADEV ERNST HAEFLIGER and KIM BORG with the CHOIR OF
ST. HEDWIG'S CATHEDRAL and the BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA and CHAMBER CHORUS
Conducted by FERENC FRICSAY on a gramophone record

String Quintet in B fiat major.
English String QUARTET
Nona Liddell , Eleanor St. George Marjorie Lempfert , Helen Just with JOHN YEWE DYER (viola)

Recordings from the Munich Festival, October 1963 including contributions from:
DANISH STATE RADIO
SWEDISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
FINNISH BROADCASTING COMPANY
Recordings made available by courtesy of the Bavarian Broadcasting Service

Michael Roll (piano)
Each month a well-known artist is invited to introduce and perform a wide range of his repertoire in weekly recitals
In his first programme
† MICHAEL ROLL plays

Sonata No. 4, in D major Sonata No. 5, in A major ALFREDO CAMPOLI (violin)
GEORGE MALCOLM (harpsichord) on a gramophone record

TESSA ROBBINS (violin)
BBC WELSH Orchestra
Leader, Philip Whiteway
Conducted by ARWEL HUGHES
Part 1

† STEPHEN DODGSON looks at some of the outstanding musical events that are taking place in Scotland, Wales, and the West during the next seven days and are not being broadcast

Part 2 Given before an Invited audience at the Cory Hall, Cardiff

The British Political System
6: Pressure Groups by John P. Mackintosh

Forty lessons designed for listeners with no previous knowledge of the language
Lesson 22
Introduced by JACINTA CASTILLEJO with the help of PABLO SOTO
EDUARDO PUNSET as Pedro Rodriguez
FERNANDO NOLLA as Jos6 Vallejo
Script by Anthony Watson and George Walton Scott
Produced by GEORGE WALTON SCOTT
Broadcast on February 24. 1964
Repeated on Saturday at 11.35 a.m. in the Home Service
A booklet and records are available

Elizabethan Culture and Ideas
Nine programmes about the attitudes and beliefs of the Elizabethans
8: Ideas about Music
Quite a lot is known both about Elizabethan ideas of music, and about their relation to the Elizabethan view of the world, but little attempt has been made to listen to Elizabethan music in this context. JOHN STEVENS. Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in English, shows how the ideas of the Elizabethans are reflected in their music.
Illustrated by recordings of Elizabethan music
Produced by HOWARD SMITH

Debussy
CORRIE BIJSTER (soprano) ELISABETH LUGT (soprano) AAFJE HEYNIS (contralto)
WILHELMINA MATTAS (contralto) HUBERT NOEL (narrator) with the CHOIR AND
PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF THE NETHERLANDS RADIO
Conducted by JEAN FOURNET
Recording made available by courtesy of the Netherlands Radio Union

4: Mrs. Gaskcllby JOHN GROSS
Fellow of King's College Cambridge
The fourth of a series of six talks on the relationship between artistic achievement and technical innovation in the main tradition of the English novel.

A comedy by Donald Cotton with music composed and conducted by ALAN OWEN
In this version of the classical myth, Phaethon, as he drives the Chariot of the Sun across the upper air, discovers that there is no basis for the traditional description of the universe, it is not supported by an elephant standing upon a tortoise. The whole basis of Olympian orthodoxy is threatened, and Helios is obliged to take immediate action.
Continued in next column
Produced by DOUGLAS CLEVERDON
Second broadcast
Alan Dudley is in Robert and Elizabeth ' at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London

Fourth of five programmes to include music by Gerhard
PARRENIN STRING QUARTET Jacques Parrenin (violin) Jacques Ghethem (violin) Michel Wales (viola)
Pierre Panassou (cello)
Second broadcast

by M. I. FINLEY
Reader in Ancient Social and Economic History, University of Cambridge
It is still commonly believed that Plato made two trips to Sicily in an attempt to convert the young tyrant Dionysius II into a philosopher-King. Mr. Finley re-examines the source of this belief-two public letters supposed to have been written by Plato himself-and questions its soundness in the light of Sicilian history and Plato's political theories.
Second broadcast