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Test Match Special joins the Australian Broadcasting Commission's commentary team at the Ground in Sydney during the tea interval
5.50 to 6.0
Summary of the day's play by BRIAN JOHNSTON
6.0 to 8.0
Ball-by-ball commentaries from the end of the tea interval until the close of play by ALAN McGILVRAY , BRIAN JOHNSTON , and JIM BOURKE
8.0 to 8.10 Summaries by LINDSAY HASSETT and E. W. SWANTON Introduced from London by Michael De Morgan

Contributors

Play By:
Brian Johnston
Play By:
Alan McGilvray
Play By:
Brian Johnston
Play By:
Jim Bourke
Unknown:
Lindsay Hassett

Suite: Sigurd Jorsalfar (Grieg) Conducted by OIVIN FJELDSTAD
8.27* Havanaise for violin and orchestra (Saint-Saens)
RUGGIERO Ricci (violin)
Conducted by PIERINO Gamba
8.37* Symphony No. 25, in G minor
(K.183) (Mozart)
Conducted by COLIN DAVIS on gramophone records

Contributors

Unknown:
Sigurd Jorsalfar
Conducted By:
Oivin Fjeldstad
Violin:
Ruggiero Ricci
Conducted By:
Pierino Gamba
Conducted By:
Colin Davis

Cantata No. 35: Geist und Seele wird verwirret
MAUREEN FORRESTER (contralto)
VIENNA ACADEMY CHAMBER CHOIR
VIENNA RADIO ORCHESTRA
Conducted by HERMANN SCHERCHEN
9.33* Cantata No. 8:
Liebster Gott wann werd' ich sterben?
URSULA BUCKEL (soprano) HERTHA TÖPPER (contralto) ERNST HAEFLIGER (tenor) KIETH ENGEN (bass)
MUNICH BACH CHOIR
SOLOISTS' ENSEMBLE OF THE ANSBACH BACH WEEK
Conducted by KARL RICHTER on gramophone records

Contributors

Conducted By:
Hermann Scherchen
Unknown:
Liebster Gott
Bass:
Kieth Engen
Conducted By:
Karl Richter

Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Directed by JOHN FENTON
Timings may be altered by events
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12.30' Your Afternoon Forecast direct from the London Weather Centre followed by SPORTS PARADE
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
CRICKET
1.0 Australia v. England
BRIAN JOHNSTON introduces highlights of the second day's play in the Third Test Match at Sydney
SAILING
1.30 International Boat Show
(sponsored by the Daily Express)
RAYMOND BAXTER and KEN SYKORA take a look round the largest marine exhibition in the world, now open at Earls Court, London
Produced by Kenneth Pragnell
*
Plain Sailing
First of a series- of programmes in which BARRY BUCKNELL gives advice to do-it-yourself yachtsmen
Previously broadcast in the North of England Home Service
RACING
1.55 The Bass, Mitchells and Butlers Trophy
A handicap hurdle for four-year-olds and upwards over two miles
2.30 The Mildmay Memorial Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards over three miles, five furlongs, 18 yards
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY ; summaries by ROGER MORTIMER
From Sandown Park
4.55 Racing Results
2.10 SPORTING PRINT
TEDDY EDEN, Senior Vice-President of the F.A., looks back over eighty-six years mainly devoted to soccer, in a conversation with PETER CRANMER
*
RUGBY UNION
2.50 County Championship Quarter Final:
Oxfordshire v. Gloucestershire
Commentary by ROBERT HUDSON and ALAN GIBSON , with summaries and comments from LESLIE BOUNDY
From Ifflcy Road, Oxford
*
3.55 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
The second half of one of today's English League matches with commentary by BRIAN Moore and SIMON SMITH , 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 p.m.

Contributors

Introduced By:
Michael de Morgan
Directed By:
John Fenton
Introduced By:
Liam Nolan
Introduces:
Brian Johnston
Unknown:
Raymond Baxter
Unknown:
Ken Sykora
Produced By:
Kenneth Pragnell
Commentary By:
Peter Bromley
Unknown:
Roger Mortimer
Unknown:
Peter Cranmer
Commentary By:
Robert Hudson
Commentary By:
Alan Gibson
Commentary By:
Brian Moore
Commentary By:
Simon Smith
Produced By:
Angus MacKay

by F. W. Willetts with Michael Bryant as the Man and the Boy
' Do I (verdo it? Force too much upon him? Diminish his freedom too much by being so anxious? I try not to be, and then suddenly it happens. Fear or anger, or both.'
Special sound by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced by BENNETT MAXWELL
Third broadcast
Michael Bryant is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company followed by an interlude at 6.55

Contributors

Unknown:
F. W. Willetts
Unknown:
Michael Bryant
Produced By:
Bennett Maxwell
Unknown:
Michael Bryant

From Sadler's Wells Theatre. London
Cast in order of singing: (bass) (soprano) (bass) (soprano) (soprano) (baritone) (tenor) (soprano) (bass) (tenor) (soprano)
SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS
Chorus-Master, John Barker
SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA Leader, John Sealey
Conducted by CHARLES MACKERRAS
Produced by John Blatchley
ACTS 1 and 2

Contributors

Chorus-Master:
John Barker
Leader:
John Sealey
Conducted By:
Charles MacKerras
Produced By:
John Blatchley
Figaro, the Count's valet:
Donald McIntyre
Susanna, the Countess's maid:
Elizabeth Harwood
Doctor Bartolo:
Noel Mangin
Marcellina, his housekeeper:
Rita Hunter
Cherubino, a page:
Anne Pashley
Count Almaviva:
Raimund Herincx
Don Basilio, a priest and music teacher:
John Fryatt
Countess Almaviva:
Ava June
Antonio, a gardener, Susanna's uncle:
Eric Stannard
Don Cursio, a lawyer:
Stanley Bevan
Barbarina, Antonio's daughter:
Sheila Amit

Dr. David Thomson
Master of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge broadcasts the first of four talks that he will be giving in this fortnightly series of commentaries on current affairs
Dr. Thomson is the author of several books on modern history, including England in the Nineteenth Century, Democracy in France, Two Frenchmen: Pierre Laval and Charles de Gaulle , and England in the Twentieth Century. Next talk: January 22

Contributors

Unknown:
Dr. David Thomson
Unknown:
Pierre Laval
Unknown:
Charles de Gaulle

tThe second of two illustrated talks by EDWARD LOCKSPEISER
Wagner's theory of the total work of art, which he called the ! Gesamtkunstwerk, had a far- 1 reaching effect on later artistic developments. In these pro- < grammes Edward Lockspeiser in- vestigates the origin of this theory and shows how it is illustrated in the inter-related spheres by music, literature, and painting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Lockspeiser
Unknown:
Edward Lockspeiser

Network Three

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