and Weather Forecast
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY
Overture: A Midsummer Night's
Dream (Mendelssohn)
8.17* Concerto No. 4, for piano
(left hand) and orchestra (Prokoliev) with RUDOLF SERKIN (piano)
8.42* Rhapsody: Brigg Fair
(Delius) on gramophone records
and Weather Forecast
Cantata No. 201: Geschwinde. ihr wirbelnden Winde (The contest between Phoebus and Pan)
ADELE STOLTE (soprano)
EVA FLEISCHER (contralto)
HANS-JOACHlM ROTZSCH (tenor) ROLF APHECK (tenor)
GiiNTHER LEIB (baritone) THEO ADAM (bass) with the CHOIR OF ST. THOMAS'S CHURCH and the LEIPZIG GEWANDHAUS ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KURT THOMAS on a gramophone record
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Holst's The Planets by ANTHONY PAYNE
Recent Choral Records reviewed by Mosco CARNER
A panorama of the musical theatre in Paris, London, Vienna and New York during the last hundred years Written by BERNARD GRUN
4: A Crop of ' Girls The story told by IRENE FITADOR
Roy WILLIAMSON
The music sung by PATRICIA CLARK
CHERRY LIND
JOHN MITCHINSON
RAIMUND HERINCX
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader. Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY
Produced by Elizabeth Johnson
Raimund Herinex broadcasts by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton
Intruduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Directed by John Fenton
Timings may be altered by events
12.30*. SPORTS PARADE
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
Weather Forecast at 12.55
1.0 What Makes a Tennis Player?
MAX ROBERTSON investigates, with recordings of famous players, past and present
Produced by Harold Rogers
MOTOR RACING
1.30 The Year of the Lotus by ROBIN RICHARDS
A BBC World Service production
RUGBY UNION FOOTBALL
2.0 Rugby in the West A survey by ALAN GIBSON
3.0; 3.35
Penryn v. Camborne
Commentary by ALAN GIBSON with comments from JOHN KENDALL-CARPENTER
From Penryn. Cornwall
RACING
2.15 The Grand Sefton Chase
A handicap race for five-year-olds and upwards over two miles. seven
3.15 The Becher Chase
A race for five-year-olds and up-five furlongs.
Commentary by TONY PRESTON from the Grandstand. MICHAEL O'HEHIR at Becher's Brook. and MICHAEL SETH-SMITH at the Fourteenth Fence
From Aintree Racecourse. Liverpool
4.55 Racing Results
4.0 ASSOCIATION
FOOTBALL
Commentary by ALAN CLARKE and SIMON SMITH during the second half of one of today's English League matches, followed by results as they come in direct from the BBC Sports Room
5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Introduced by LlAM NOLAN
Produced by ANGUS MACKAY
Classilled Football Results at S.0 and 5.50 p.m.
played by the AEOLIAN STRING QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
by EDMUND COLLEDGE
In this talk the compiler of Mediaeval Netherlands Religious Literature compares The Marvellous History of Mary of Nimmegen with other medieval stories of despair and reconciliation.
† Second broadcast
The Marvellous History of Mary of Nimmegen: Sunday at 9.10
Readings and recollections
† Introduced by D. G. BRIDSON
In 1959 D. G. Bridson visited Ezra Pound in Italy and made a series of recordings with him. These included readings from his poetry, recollections of his friends, and many expressions of opinion on art and other matters.
The present selection is broadcast to mark the poet's eightieth birthday
An opera in four acts
Music by Haydn Libretto by CARLO FRANCESCO BADINI (sung in Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS OF THE
NORTH GERMAN RADIO
Chorus-Master, Max Thurn
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF THE NORTH GERMAN RADIO
Conducted by HANS SCHMIDT-ISSERSTEDT
Recording made available by cour-
Acr 1
Scene I A rocky beach by a forest
Scene 2 Creonte's throne room
ACT 2
A field near the palace
by ALBERT BAnERSBY
Senior Lecturer in Management Science,
Cranfield Work Study School
How is management to be taught to those who are already practising it? The question raises awkward issues that have so far been avoided.
ACT 3
Scene I At Euridice's grave
Scene 2 A rocky cleft
ACT 4
The bank of the River Lethe
Second broadcast
An Old Woman's Reflections
Translated from the Irish by SEAMUS ENNIS
Edited for broadcasting by W. R. Rodgers
Read by MARY O'FARRELL
The West Coast of Ireland is the last haven of the tradition of bardic storytelling that has run like an artery through European culture time out of mind. Peig Sayers (1873-1958) was the queen of these Irish storytellers. and her ' old woman's reflections' both gjve a wonderful insight into tile life of the Irish peasant on the Great Blasket Island and show the richnes., of her dramatic gift. First of four readings
† Previously broadcast on December
25. 1963
