and Weather Forecast

Conducted by Paul Paray

Overture: Le roi d'Ys (Lalo)

8.16* Symphony in D minor (Franck)

8.52* Espana (Chabrier)

(on gramophone records)

and Weather Forecast

ELAINE BLIGHTON (soprano) SYBIL MICHELOW (contralto) IAN PARTRIDGE (tenor)
JOHN BARROW (baritone)
MARY RYAN (flute)
TILFORD BACH FESTIVAL CHOIR
DEREK STEVENS
(harpsichord and organ continuo)
TILFORD BACH Festival ENSEMBLE
Conductor, DENYS DARLOW
Cantata No. 106: Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit
9.28* Sonata No. 6, in E major, for flute and continuo
9.39* Cantata No. 18: Gleich wie der Regen und Schnee vom Himmel fallt

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro by WILLIAM MANN
Recent Chamber and Instrumental Music reviewed by John Amis

Symphony No. 4
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Hugh Maguire
Conductor, ANTAL DORATI
Recorded before an invited audience Studio 1. Maida Vale

Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.

Introduced by Michael de Morgan
Directed by Geoff Dobson
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: Final
Hardye's School, Dorchester v. Keighley School in Yorkshire
Question-Master, John Arlott
Produced by Geoff Dobson
From the Corn Exchange, Dorchester
First broadcast on April 19 in the Light Programme

1.30 Cricket
Round the Counties
The third of a series of four programmes on the prospects for the coming season. This week: The South. Brian Johnston talks to the County Captains of Middlesex, Essex, Sussex, Kent, and Surrey

1.45 A Lifetime of Boxing
Simon Smith talks to W. Barrington Dalby about his associations with boxing, both as a referee and broadcaster, during the last thirty years

Lawn Tennis
2.0; 4.45* British Hard Court Championships at Bournemouth
Commentary on the final day by Max Robertson with summaries by Fred Perry
From the West Hants Lawn Tennis Club, Bournemouth

Horse Trials
2.0; 3.40 Badminton Horse Trials
Reports by Raymond Brooks-Ward on the last day
From Badminton

Racing
3.5 The Whitbread Gold Cup
A handicap chase for five-year-olds and upwards over three miles, five furlongs, and 18 yards
Commentary by Peter Bromley; with a summary by Roger Mortimer
From Sandown
3.25 The Ronald Fell Handicap Stakes
For three-year-olds and upwards over one mile
Commentary by Michael Seth-Smith
From Redcar

4.55* Racing Results

3.45 Association Football
The F.A. Cup: Semi-Finals
Commentary by Brian Moore and Simon Smith on one of today's ties, with summaries by Alan Clarke from the other match

5.0 Sports Report
Introduced by Liam Nolan
Produced by ANGUS MACKAY

Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50

Franco Gulli (violin)
Bruno Giuranna (viola) Giacinto Caramia (cello)
Second broadcast

by P. T. LANDSBERG
Professor of Theoretical Physics, University College of South Wales
The intrusion of unobservables ' into scientific thinking can hold up progress, as for example when the aether was postulated. Professor LandsberK questions whether the inclusion of all unobservables is always wise, and illustrates his thesis by reference to the late nineteenth-century dispute about the existence of atoms.

by George Ewart Evans
From 1900 onwards mechanical transport altered town life rapidly and drastically. A community that had lived compactly became large and diffuse. Townspeople of Ipswich talk about the changes which have happened in their lifetime.
Introduced by GEORCF. EWART EVANS
Produced by David Thomson
Second broadcast

Opera in three acts
Music by Paul Hindemith
See foot of page
ACT 1

by J. CLYDE MITCHELL
Professor of Sociology In the University of Manchester
Can the white Rhodesians' beliefs about race be seen as myths which justify their position in the social order? And. if so, are these beliefs likely to be changed by discussion or persuasion? J. Clyde Mitchell has just arrived from Rhodesia, where he spent ten years at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland as Professor of African Studies and Sociology He describes and illustrates the characteristics of the Rhodesian race myth ' and discusses its implications for the present situation there

ACT 2

by Sir STEVEN RUNCIMAN , Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Sir Steven Runciman considers the architecture and iconography of Constantinople as they symbolise the religion of the sacred city and express the genius of its Greet civilisation.
Second broadcast

ACT 3
Elizabeth Robson and Kenneth Mac donald broadcast by permission of the General Administrator. Royal Opera House. Covent Garden: Harold Blackburn by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company