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Symphonie espagnole (Lato) with HENRYK SZERYNG (violin) Conducted by WALTER HENDL
8.39* Suite No. 2: Daphnis and Chloe (Ravel)
Conducted by JEAN MARTINON on gramophone records

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APRIL CANTELO (soprano)
PAMELA BOWDEN (contralto)
KENNETH BOWEN (tenor)
NEIL HOWLETT (baritone)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
RICHARD POPPLEWELL (organ continuo)
PUILOMUSICA OF LONDON Leader, Carl Pinl
Conducted by DAVID LLOYD-JONES
Cantata No. 61: Nun komm' der
Heiden Heiland
9.23* Motet: Fürchte dich nicht
9.37* Cantata No. 91: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Handel's Messiah by TREVOR HARVEY
Recent Organ and Christmas Records reviewed by FELIX APRAHAMIAN

A panorama of the musical theatre in Paris, London, Vienna, and New York during the last hundred years
Written by BERNARD GRUN
10: From Old Ruritania to New England The story told by ALAN TILVERN
ROY WILLIAMSON and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
The music sung by PAMELA WOOLMORE
JUNE MARLOW
ANDY COLE
DENIS QUILLEY
THE AMBROSUN SINGERS
Directed by JOHN MCCARTHY
BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conductor, VILEM TAUSKY
Produced by Elizabeth Johnson

Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton

Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Directed by JOHN FENTON
Timings may be altered by events

12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast direct from the London Weather Centre followed by SPORTS PARADE
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN

RUGBY UNION
1.0 Round-up from Ireland
A survey of the Irish Season and Internationals by SAMMY WALKER
3.5 The Second English Trial
Commentary on part of the second half of the match by ALAN GIBSON followed by his survey of the International scene in England

RACING
1.10 The Cheltenham Trial Hurdle
For four-year-olds and upwards over two miles and about 200 yards
2.10 The Massey-Ferguson Gold Cup
A handicap chase for five-year-olds and upwards over two miles and a half
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER
From Cheltenham

1.2S TALKING SPORT
JACOB DE VRIES talks to some of the members of the British Olympic Association's team who have just recently returned from Mexico City where they have been investigating the problems of sport at altitudes in connection with the 1968 Olympic Games.

CRICKETERS' CHOICE
1.40; 2.30
The M.C.C. in Australia send Christmas greetings and choose some records for their friends and relatives at home

3.50 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
The second half of one of today's English League games with commentary by BRIAN MOORE and MAURICE EDELSTON, followed by 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

Piano Quartet in A major
Op. 26
THE FESTIVAL QUARTET
Szymon Goldberg (violin) William Primrose (viola) Nikolai Grauden (cello) Victor Babin (piano) on a gramophone record
Second of three programmes of Brahms Piano Quartets
Piano Quartet in C minor: December 26

talks about
The excavation at Masada
Introduced by HUBERT HOSKINS
On a visit to Israel earlier this year Hubert Hoskins visited Professor Yigael Yadin at his home in Jerusalem. Yadin, who until about twelve years ago was supreme commander of the Israel Armed Forces, was recorded talking about the dig at Masada on the Dead Sea, which has not only shed light on the character of Herod the Great but has revealed concrete evidence of the dramatic final stand made by the Zealots in the first Jewish revolt against the Romans between A.D. 66 and 73. Second broadcast

Three programmes by IAN GRIMBLE
3: Fish and Factories
The catching and processing of fish are key elements in the maintenance of rural communities on the Northern Atlantic coasts of Europe. In the last of his three programmes, Dr. Grimble, with the help of contributors from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland. and Scotland, examines the problems of access and conservation, marketing, and location of factories.
Produced by Christopher Holme
Third broadcast

A comic opera in two acts by Peter Cornelius
English translation by Arthur Jacobs
Cast in order of singing:

BBC Northern Singers
Chorus-Master, Stephen Wilkinson
BBC Northern Orchestra
Leader, Reginald Stead
Conducted by Leo Wurmser

Produced by LIONEL SALTER

Act 1
Nureddin's room

The Rt. Hon. Kenneth Younger gives his last commentary on current affairs in this fortnightly series
Next talk: Dr. David Thomson , January

A room in the house of the Cadi Mustapha

(Forbes Robinson broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden)

In the Convivio. Dante likens music to the planet Mars
JOHN STEVENS Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge taking this passage as his starting point, considers first the 'image' of music as it developed in the Divine Comedy, and secondly Dante's attitude to the practical art of song-writing.
The illustrations are sung by WILFRED BROWN (tenor)