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Conducted by WILLIAM STEINBERG
RUDOLF FIRKUSNY (piano)
The Ride of the Valkyries; Magic
Fire Music (Die Walkure) (Wagner)
8.18* Piano Concerto No. 5, in E flat major (Emperor) (Beethoven) on gramophone records

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Cantata No. 57: Selig ist der Mann - Ursula Buckel (soprano), Jakob Stampfli (bass), Choir of Saarbrucken Conservatoire, Saar Chamber Orchestra, Conducted by Karl Ristenpart

9.31* Cantata No. 110: Unser Mund sei voll Lachens - Herrad Wehrung (soprano), Emmy Lisken (contralto), Georg Jelden (tenor), Jakob Stampfli (bass), Windsbach Boys' Choir, South West German Chamber Orchestra, Conducted by Hans Thamm

(on gramophone records)

(Cantatas Nos. 68 and 104: Tuesday at 8.30 p.m. (Third Programme); Next Saturday: Cantatas Nos. 202 and 203)

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 53 (Waldstein) by EDWARD GREENFIELD
Recent Choral Records: a review by TREVOR HARVEY

Leader, Arthur Leavins it Conducted by GILBERT VINTER

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
1.0 SPORTING CHANCE
The Resident Team: ALUN WILLIAMS MAURICE EDELSTON, CORBET WOODALL v. Northampton Grammar School, Northampton
Question-Master, JOHN ARLOTT
Produced by Geoff Dobson
From Northampton Grammar School, Northampton
First broadcast on February 15 in the Light Programme
SAILING
1.30 Plain Sailing
The seventh 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
1.3S Fisherman's Inn
The fourth in a series of reconstructed fishing trips with HAL MOUNT
Previously broadcast tn the North of England Home Service
RACING
2.15 The Newbury Spring Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards over two miles and 160 yards
2.55 The Schweppes Gold Trophy
A handicap hurdle race for four-year-olds and upwards over two miles
Commentary by MICHAEL SETH-SMITH with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER
From Newbury
3.35 The Leopardstown Chase
A handicap race for five-year-olds and upwards over about three miles
Commentary by TONY PRESTON
From Leopardstown, Eire
Broadcast by arrangement with Radio Eireann
4.55 Racing Results
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RUGBY UNION
2.30: 3.10 Wasps v. Leicester
Commentary by PETER CRANMER and Eric YORK
From Sudbury. Middlesex
4.0 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary during the second half of one of today's English League matches by ALAN CLARKE 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

Sextet in B flat major, Op. 18 YEHUDI MENUHIN (violin) ROBERT MASTERS (violin)
CECIL ARONOWITZ (viola) ERNST WALLFISCH (viola)
MAURICE GENDRON (cello)
DEREK SIMPSON (cello) on gramophone records

2: The Debacle of 1917 ISAAC DEUTSCHEH speaks on the causes of the Menshevik party's virtual disintegration on the eve of the October Revolution. He refers to the published memoirs of Tseretelli.
Second broadcast
3-Exile and Effacement: February 26

Translated by BRIAN FENTON from a twelfth-century Irish poem with and Produced by DOROTHY BAKER fecond broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.25

La gazza ladra
Opera semiseria in two acts
Libretto by GIOVANNI GHERARDINI
Music by Gioacchino Rossini
English version by TOM HAMMOND
From Sadler's Wells Theatr * London first broadcast performance in this country
Cast in order of singing:
Soldiers, peasants, members of Fabrizio's household, members of the court
SADLER'S WELLS CHORUS
Chorus-Master, John Barker
SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA Leader, John Sealey
Conducted by BRYAN BALKWILL Produced by Anthony Besch
The action takes place in a small town near Florence, c. 1810
ACT 1
Sc. 1 The courtyard of Fabrizio'i farmhouse
Sc. 2 Inside the house

Dr. David Thomson
Master of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge broadcasts another commentary on current affairs in this fortnightly series
Next talk: March 5

ACT 2
Sc. 1 The prison
Sc. 2 The tribunal
Sc. 3 The piazza

ANTON WALLICH-CLIFFORD founder of The Simon Communities talks about the days when he was a Probation Officer in central London
The programme is introduced by PHILIP O'CONNOR
Produced by David Thomson
Third broadcast