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This morning's three Beethoven works all in the tonality of C. have been traditionally-and wrongly-described as ' weak Beethoven
Part 1
BEETHOVEN
Overture: The Consecration of the House
PHILIIARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER on a gramophone record

Sonata in A major (Haydn
Society No. 30)
.f played by ALASDAIR GRAHAM (piano)

String Quartets played by THE AMADEUS Quartet
Quartet In D minor (K.421)
Second broadcast
Second of ten weekly programmes

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Part 2
BACH
SHEILA ARMSTRONG (soprano) HELEN WATTS (contralto) ROBERT TEAR (tenor)
JOHN NOBLE (baritone)
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
Christopher Taylor (flute obbligato)
Charles Spinks
(organ and harpsichord continuo) Jospph Castaldini (bassoon continuo)
Charles Tunnell (cello continuo) Francis Baines
(double-bass continuo)
PHJLOMUSICA OF LONDON
Leader, Carl Pini '
Conducted by BERNARD KEEFFE
Cantata No. 173a: Durchlaucht'ster
Leopold
9.25* Cantata No. 26: Ach WIE flüchtig, ach wie nichtiz

Fantasia In C minor, for piano, chorus, and orchestra
ANDOR FOLDES (piano)
RIAS CHAMBER CHOIR
BERLIN MOTET Choir
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by FRITZ LEHMANN on a gramophone record

Octet for wind instruments
AN INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE
Conducted by THE COMPOSER en a gramophone record

Concerto In C major, for violin, cello, piano, and orchestra
ISAAC STERN (violin) LEONARD ROSE (cello)
EUGENE ISTOMIN (piano)
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY on a gramophone record

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Building a Library: Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1, in D minor, by JOSEPH COOPER
Recent Opera reviewed by MARK LUBBOCK

Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.

Introduced by NEIL DURDEN-SMITH
Directed by Geoff Dobson
Timings may be altered by events

12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast from the London Weather Centre

SPORTS PARADE
Introduced by Liam Nolan

CRICKET
1.0: 2.10: 3.25: 3.55: 4.42
Glamorgan v. Worcestershire
Commentary by ALUN Williams
From Pontypridd
Middlesex v. Kent
Commentary by BRIAN JOHNSTON
From Lord's
Warwickshire v. Leicestershire
Commentary by PETER CRANMER
From Nuneaton

GOLF
1.45: 3.0: 4.5: 4.52
The Penfold and Swallow Tournament
Reports by BEN WRIGHT
From Little Aston Golf Club
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HOCKEY
1.50 Hockey Today
NEIL DURDEN-SMITH investigates British hockey with the help of S.D. DICKINS, Great Britain team coach, R.L. HOLLANDS of the Daily Telegraph, L.S.E. JONES, Great Britain team manager, and JOHN NEILL, Captain of Great Britain

ATHLETICS
3.5: 4.10: 4.50
Oxford v. Cambridge
Reports by PETER HILDRETH
From the White City

3.10 RACING
The Scottish and Newcastle Breweries Handicap Stakes
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY
From Newcastle
4.55 Racing Results

3.45 CYCLING
Senior Service Tour of the West
BENNY FOSTER reports at the end of the 8th and final stage, Paignton to Weston-super-Mare
From Weston-super-Mare.

4.15 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary during the second half of an English League game by ALAN CLARKE and SIMON SMITH

5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Introduced by LIAM NOLAN
Produced by ANGUS MACKAY

DIE KAMMERMUSIKER, ZÜRICH
Brenton Langbein (violin) Luise Schlatter (violin) Carlos Villa (violin)
Angelo Maccabiani (violin) Ottavio Corti (viola)
Raffaele Altwegg (cello) Willi Gohl (harpsichord) Part 1

A short story by Anton Chekhov
Translated from the Russian by S. S. KOTELIANSKY
Reader, DENYS HAWTHORNE
Second broadcast

Part 2

A selection of excerpts from the weekly interviews and discussions broadcast during the last three months
Including
PAUL DEHN and Julian Mitchell
BRIAN MOORE and Philip French
ARTHUR MLLER and T. G. Rosenthal
BRYAN KNEALE and Bernard Palmer
PETER EVERETT and Eric Rhode
Joseph LOSEY with Paul Mayersberg and Tom Milne
MICHAEL FRAYN and Edward Lucie-Smith
Produced by Philip French

An opera in three acts after Dostoevsky by Leos Janacek
Translated and adapted for radio by DENNIS ARUNDELL Cast in order of singing:
MALE Voices of the BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Chorus-Master,
Stephen Wilkinson
BBC NORTHERN ORCHESTRA Leader, Reginald Stead Conducted bv
CHARLES MACKERRAS
Répétiteurs, Vida Harford and Leo Wurmser
Produced by DENNIS ARUNDELL and LIONEL SALTER
ACT 1 A Siberian prison camp

by GORDON ZAHN
Professor of Sociology at the Loyola University, Chicago
Buddhists in the Far East may Immolate themselves in a gesture of fanatical protest; but when a Christian in New York or Washington does likewise, the Church —and society in general-stands aghast. Gordon Zahn , who is a Roman Catholic layman, talks about two recent cases of Christian martyrdom (or suicide perhaps) and the problem posed here for ' respectable Christianity.'

ACT 2 By the banks of the river Irtysh. Easter

SEAN O'FAOLAIN , whose own first volume of autobiography Vine Mot appeared recently, talks about some of the problems of the form, with the confessions of Rousseau and St. Augustine as examples.

ACT 3
Scene 1 The prison hospital
Scene 2 The prison courtyard
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 10.54