From Melbourne
Second day
Test Match Special joins the Australian Broadcasting Commission's commentary team at the Ground in Melbourne during the tea interval
5.50-6.0 Summary of the day's play by BRIAN JOHNSTON
6.0-8.0 Ball-by-ball commentaries from the end of the tea interval until the close of play by ALAN McGILVRAY , DICK MASON , and BRIAN JOHNSTON
8.0-8.10 Summaries by LINDSAY HASSETT and E. W. SWANTON
Introduced from London by Neil Durden-Smith
Conducted by BRUNO WALTER
Overture: The Magic Flute (Mozart)
8.18* Symphony No. 6, in F major
(Pastoral) (Beethoven) on gramophone records
and Weather Forecast
JEANNETTE SINCLAIR (soprano) SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN BARROW (baritone) MARY MURDOCH (oboe and oboe d'amore obbligato) SARAH FRANCIS
(oboe d'amore obbligato)
MICHAEL LAIRD (clarino obbligato) DEREK STEVENS (organ continuo) GEOFFREY GAMBOLD (bassoon continuo)
OLGA HEGEDUS (cello continuo) FRANCIS BAINES
(double-bass continuo)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Leader, Kelly Isaacs
Conductor, DENYS DARLOW
Cantata No. 19: Es erhub sich ein Streit 9.27* Missa Brevis in G minor
Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Schubert's Symphony No. 5, in B flat major by STEPHEN DODGSON
Recent Songs: A review by ALAN BLYTH
the LONDON LIGHT ORCHESTRA
The programme includes music by Wolf-Ferrari, Peter Warlock , Eric Coates , Ernest Tomlinson , Wilfred Josephs , and Johann Strauss
First broadcast on October 6. 1965
Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.
Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Directed by Alec Turnbull
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
Highlights of the second day's play of the Fifth Test Match from Brian JOHNSTON in Melbourne
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1.30 SPORTING CHANCE
The Resident Team: ALUN Williams MAURICE EOELSTON , CORBET WOODALL v. Price's School, Fareham
Question-Master. John ARLOTT
Produced by Geoft Dobson
From Price's School. Fareham, Hampshire
First broadcast on Feb. 8 (Light
Programme)
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SAILING
2.0 Plain Sailing
The sixth 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
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FISHING
2.5 Fisherman's Inn
The third in a series of reconstructed fishing trips with HAL MOUNT
Previously broadcast in the North of England Home Service
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RACING
2.25 The Manifesto Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards over three miles
2.55 The Jerry M. Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards over two miles and a half
Commentary by MICHAEL SETH-SMITH with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER
From Lingfield Park
4.55 Racing Results
RUGBY UNION
2.45; 3.15
England v. Ireland
Commentary by REX ALSTON and SAMMY WALKER , with summaries by PETER YARRANTON
From Twickenham
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ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
4.20 F.A. Cup Fourth Round
Commentary during the second half of one of today's Ties by BRIAN MOORE and ALAN CLARKE , followed by results as they come in, direct from the BBC Sports Room
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5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
Produced by ANGUS MACKAY
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50
Amaryllis FLEMING plays
Suite No. 1, in G major
Suite No. 6, In D major (for five-stringed cello)
First broadcast performance In the original version
by ISAAC DEUTSCHER
Ceorgi Plekhanov philosopher and herald of the Russian Revolution
Isaac Deutscher speaks about the great exponent of Russian Marx ism and Menshevism, who exercised a decisive influence on Lenin. With this review of Plekhanov's biography by Samuel H. Baron. Mr. Deutscher begins a series of three talks on the Mensheviks.
Third broadcast
The Debacle of 1917: Feb. It
An imaginary conversation in which Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Richard Niebuhr discuss a crucial point in modern ethics
Written and narrated by THE REV. E. H. ROBERTSON
Produced by TERENCE TILLER
Third broadcast
An opera in three acts
Text by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Music by Paul Dukas
Sung in French
Cast in order of singing:
Crowd of peasants
BBC SCOTTISH CHORAL SOCIETY
Chorus-Master, Bernard Keeffe
BBC SCOTTISH ORCHESTRA Leader, Trevor Williams
Conductor, NORMAN DELMAR
Produced by BERNARD KEEFFE
ACT 1
A large hall in Bluebeard's castle
tests his own thinking against some of the arguments raised in Lord Chalfont's two recent talks in the Third Programme -Dimensions of Violence and Prospects of Peace (printed in The Listener of January 20 and 27) The RT. Hon. ENOCH POWELL , m.p. is the chief Tory spokesman on defence matters in the House of Commons.
ACT 2
A subterranean hall in the castle
A short story by MADGE HALES
Read by HUGH DICKSON
' I have never, in the four years I have known her, told her how frightened I was of girls; she thinks I am eccentric, which I prefer. As for what I think of Maureen, well, I haven'decided. But I do know, that when she has anKels pulling her hair. I feel sorry for her. Sometimes they don'leave her alone all the evening, and she gets depressed. She can'concentrate; so talk is out of the Question ....
ACT 3
A large hall In Bluebeard's castle
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.50