and Weather Forecast
THE PHILADELPHIA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
Overture: The Bartered Bride
(Smetana)
8.11* Piano Concerto No. In sharp minor (Rachmaninov) with PHILIPPE ENTREMONT (piano)
8.17* Suite: The Firebird (Slravinsky) on gramophone records
and Weather Forecast
BARBARA ELSY (Ioprano)
PRUDENCE LLOYD (soprano) SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto)
ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
CHRISTOPHER KEYTE (baritone)
MARTINDALE SIDWELL CHOIR
Roy Jesson (organ continuo)
Barbara Hill
(harpsichord continuo)
Joy Hall (cello continuo)
PHILOMUSICA OF LONDON Leader, Carl Pini
Conducted by MARTINDALE SIDWELL
Christmas Oratorio
Parts I and † A public concert promoted by the St. Clement Danes Music Society and given in the Church of St. Clement Danes. Strand. London. on December 17. 1964
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a LIbrary: Ravel's La Valse, by FELIX APRA-HAMIAN
Recent Instrumental Records: JOAN CHISSELL
Recent Choral Records: by STEPHEN DODGSON
conducts the London Light Orchestra
(Broadcast on December 12, 1964)
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton
With Michael De Morgan
Weather Forecast at 12.55
CRICKET
12.30; 1.40; 2.25; 3.5; 4.0; 5.50 Gillette Cup
Middlesex v. Derbyshire at Lord's
Hampshire v. Kent at Portsmouth
Warwickshire v. Lancashire at Edgbaston
Leicestershire v. Yorkshire at Leicester
Gloucestershire v. Northants. at Bristol
Surrey v. Glamorgan at the Oval
Worcestershire v. Sussex at Worcester
Somerset v. Nottinghamshire at Taunton
BRIAN JOHNSTON introduces reports from the Studio
Reporters: Michael Marshall, John Arlott, Peter Cranmer, Rex Alston, Alan Gibson, Corbet Woodall, Neil Durden-Smith, and Norman Cuddeford
CYCLING
1.5; 2.10; 3.40; 4.45
Corona London-Holyhead Cycle Race
Latest reports as they come In during the afternoon from John Burns, who is following the 37 top cyclists as they race along the roads for 278 miles. between London and Holyhead. The race began from London at five o'clock this morning and the result will come direct from Holyhead at about 4.45 p.m.
GOLF
1.15; 3.55; S.45
Martini International Club Tournament
Reports by Tom Scott
From Little Aston Golf Club
1.20 BOXING
Preview of the World Heavyweight Championship contest between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston which takes place this week in Lewiston, Maine
RACING
1.35 Down the Card
Summary by Peter Bromley of the afternoon's racing
3.25 Carreras Piccadilly Oaks Trial Stakes
A race for three-year-old fillies only. run over one mile and a half
Commentary by Peter Bromley with a summary by Roger Mortimer
From Lingfield Park
4.55 Racing Results
5.5 Racing Review
MOTOR CYCLING
2.5; 2.40; 3.45; 5.0; 5.25
The North West '200'
Commentary by Murray Walker at the Grandstand and Billy Clark at Shell Hill
From the Portrush, Portstewart.
Coleraine circuit, Northern ireland
LAWN TENNIS
2.15; 2.50; 4.0; 5.10
French Championships
Commentary by Maurice Edelston
Summaries by Fred Perry
From Paris
5.30 SWIMMING
Great Britain v. Holland
Commentary by Alun Williams and Pat Besford
From Blackpool
Gloria given by CORRY BIJSTER (soprano) AAFJE HEYNIS (contralto) LODE DEVOS (tenor)
LEO KETELAARS (bass)
NETHERLANDS RADIO CHOIR
NETHERLANDS RADIO CHAMBER
ORCHESTRA
Conducted by LEONCE GRAS
Recording made available by courtesy of Netherlands Radio Union
Two talks by W. M. S. RUSSELL
2: The Affluent Crowd
It is becoming clear from recent field observations that societies of monkeys and apes, in the wild, are surprisingly peaceful. But this is not true when the society is under the stress of overcrowding, as was the case. until recently, in most zoos. What goes wrong under these conditions? Dr. Russell discusses the origins of primate warfare.
Second broadcast
Sextet in B flat major, Op. 18 played by YEHUDI MENUHIN (Violin) ROBERT MASTERS (Vio]lin) CECIL ARONOWITZ (Viola) ERNST WALLFISCH (viola) MAURICE GENDRON (cello) DEREK SIMPSON (cello) on a gramophone record
A performance in French of Acts 3 and 4 of Racine's tragedy which was broadcast In English last Thursday
CharacteTs in order of speaking:
Produced by GEORGES HACQUARD on gramophone records in the series L'Encyclopédie Sonore
Second broadcast
Symphony No. 1, In D major played by the BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conducted by RUDOLF KEMPE
Given before an invited audience in BBC Studio 1, Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope.
The Rev. Bruce Kenrick gives another commentary on current affairs in this fortnightly series Next talk: June 5
Thirty-three VariatIons on a waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120
Played by DANIEL BARENBOIU (piano) fonowed by an interlude at 10.55
