and Weather Forecast

Symphony No. 5, in B flat major
(Schubert)
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
8.31' Fantasia after Dante: Francesca da Rimini (Tchaikovsky)
Conducted by CARLO MARIA GIULINI on gramophone records

and Weather Forecast

Sheila Armstrong (soprano) Gerard Suzay (baritone) Winifred Roberts (violin) Edward Selwyn (oboe)
Geraint Jones (harpsichord) Alan Harverson (harpsichord continuo) Ambrose Gauntlett (cello continuo)
Geraint Jones Orchestra
Leader, Winifred Roberts
Conductor, Geraint Jones

Cantata No. 202: Welchet nur, betrubte Schatten, for soprano and string orchestra

9.28* Concerto in D minor, for violin, oboe, and string orchestra

9.44* Cantata No. 203: Amore traditore, for baritone and harpsichord

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Verdi's Don Carlos by CEDRIC WALLIS ,
Recent Instrumental Records: reviewed by JEREMY BARLOW
Schoenberg: Volume Three of the complete works reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON

Leader, Arthur Leavins
Conducted by MAURICE HANDFORD
The programme includes
Overture: The Beautiful Galatea
Suppé́ and music by Tchaikovsky, Khachaturyan, and Eric Coates

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

1.0 SPORTING CHANCE
The Resident Team: ALUN WILLIAMS MAURICE EDELSTON , CORBET WOODALL v. Glossop School
Question-Master, JOHN ARLOTT
Produced by Geoff Dobson
From Glossop School, North Derbyshire
First broadcast in the Light Programme on January 22

SAILING
1.30 Plain Sailing
The last of a series of programmes in which BARRY BUCKNELL gives advice to do-it-yourself yachtsmen, in conversation with PETER WHEELER
Previously broadcast in the North of England Home Service

FISHING
1.35 Fisherman's Inn
The fifth in a series of reconstructed fishing trips with HAL MOUNT
Previously broadcast in the North of England Home Service

RUGBY UNION
1.50: 3.15 France v. England
Commentary by ALAN GIBSON and PETER YARRANTON
From Stade Colombes, Paris
Broadcast by arrangement with the French Broadcasting Service
Ireland v. Scotland
Score flashes throughout the game and commentary on part of it by SAMMY WALKER and JOHN DOWNIE
From Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Broadcast by arrangement with Radio Eireann

RACING
3.0 The Stones Ginger Wine Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards over two miles, four furlongs, and 68 jards
Commentary by MICHAEL SETH-SMITH with a summary by ROGER MORTIMER
From Sandown Park
4.55* Racing Results

3.55 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary during the second half of one of today's English League names 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

(cello)

3: Exile and Effacement
In the light of two books by the Menshevik leaders Dan and Abramovich, ISAAC DEUTSCHER speaks of the impasse into which Menshevism was driven and of its final tragedy.
Third broadcast

A play for radio by Tom Stoppard
with Patsy Rowlands as Gladys and Timothy West as Frank
'TIM', the talking telephone clock, can think as well as speak and pip the seconds. She becomes disillusioned by the tyranny of time. Frank recognises in her voice the wife he loves.
Produced by JOHN TYDEMAN
(Timothy West is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company)
(Second broadcast)
(Followed by an interlude at 7.25)

Henryk Szeryng (violin)
Scottish National Orchestra
Leader, Sam Bor *
Conductor, Alexander Gibson
From the Concert Hall, Glasgow ;
Part 1

A reply by EDWARD GREENWOOD to George Steiner 's two talks To Civilise Our Gentlemen
Mr. Greenwood argues asainst Dr. Steiner's case for a radical rethinkinu of English teaching in Universities to avoid the dangers of classicism, idealist moral fervour, and nationalism He believes that Dr. Steiner's arguments are confused, inconsistent, self-contradictory, unfair to many of his colleagues, and tainted with a fashionable and fundamentally " safe" academic existentialism.'

Part 2: Schumann
Symphony No. 4, in D minor

Honore de Balzac by A. G. LEHMANN
Professor of French in the University of Reading.
Third of six talks on the relationship between artistic achievement and technical innovation in the main tradition of the French novel.
Roger Shattuck on Stendhal:
March 6
This series of talks is being printed. in ' The Listener '

Philomel, for voice and tape first broadcast performance in this country sung by BETHANY BEARDSLEE (soprano)

† ERIC SALZMAN considers Ives's achievement in relation to the musical and literary background of his times