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Part 1
CESUALDO
Six Madrigals
GRACE-LYNNE MARTIN (soprano) MARILYN HORNE (soprano) CORA LANRIDSEN (contralto)
RICHARD LEVITT(counter-tenor) RICHARD ROBINSON (tenor) CHARLES SCHARBACH (bass) Directed by ROBERT CRAFT on a gramophone record

Piano Concerto No. 4. in G major
RUDOLF SERKIN PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by EUGENE ORMANDY on a gramophone record
ⓢA stereophonic broadcast

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Overture: Leonora No. 3
PHILHARMONIA Orchestra
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER on a gramophone record
ⓢ A stereophonic broadcast

Sonata in E flat major
Haydn Society No. 52 played by HANS LEYGRAF (piano)
Second broadcast

String Quartet in C major, Op. 59
No. 3 played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
Second broadcast

Motet: Ave verum corpus (K.618)
BERLIN HANDEL CHOIR
BERLIN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conducted by GÜNTHER ARNDT on a gramophone record
ⓢ A stereophonic broadcast

Symphony No. 4. in B flat major
PHILHARMONIAORCHESTRA
Conducted by Otto KLEMPERER on a gramophone record
ⓢ A stereophonic broadcast

Concerto in the Italian Style (Bach)
WANDA LANDOWSKA (harpsichord)
11.14* Two madrigals (Monteverdi)
Zeffiro torna: Ardo
VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL Ensemble Directed by NADIA BOULANGER
11.27* String Quintet in G minor
(K.51B) (Mozurt)
GRiLLER STRING QUARTET
Sidney Griller , Jack O'Brien Philip Burton , Colin Hampton with MAX GILBERT (Viola)
Fourth of five programmes
Final programme: August 13

Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.

Introduced by JOHN DUNN
Directed by John Fenton
Timings may be altered by events
12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast direct from the London Weather Centre
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CRICKET
12.33: 2.20: 5.35
Warwickshire v. Worcestershire
Commentary by PETER CRANMER
From Edgbaston
Sussex v. Gloucestershire
Commentary by JOHN ARLOTT
From Hove
Lancashire v. Yorkshire
Commentary by MICHAELMARSHALL From Old Trafford
Surrey v. Essex
Commentary by ROBERT HUDSON From The Oval
1.55 Lunchtime Scoreboard
RUGBY UNION
1.45 Auckland v. British Isles
An illustrated report by BOB IRVINE From Auckland
Broadcasting by arrangement with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL World Cup
2.0 Preview
2.50 The Final See above
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2.5 VIII BRITISH EMPIRE
AND COMMONWEALTH GAMES
The BBC's team of commentators report on the preparations and the prospects of the British teams
From Kingston. Jamaica
SAILING
5.30 Cowes Week
DAVID MUDDreports on the opening day
From Cowes
4.55 Racing Results

ALFONZ BARTHA (tenor)
BUDAPEST CHOIR
HUNGARIAN RADIO
SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by PAUL KLETZKI
Recording made available by courtesy of Hungarian Radio

by MARGARET BODEN
Lecturer in Philosophy University of Sussex
Optimism is not nowadays regarded as being intellectually respectable. But Miss Boden argues that it cannot be so easily dismissed. and discusses some examples of the genuine article.

Conducted by Leonard Bernstein
Alborada del gracioso (Ravel)
The Three-cornered Hat: Suites
1 and 2 (Falla) on a gramophone record
A stereophonic broadcast

A biographical portrait drawn from three programmes broadcast in February and March
Einstein: the Man and his Achievement
Among the speakers are
PROFESSOR HANS EINSTEIN
PROFESSOR OTTO FRISCH , F.R.S. PROFESSOR HYMAN LEVY
PROFESSOR HERBERT DINGLE L. L. WHYTE
MARGARET DENEKE Sir Roy HARROD
PROFESSOR BANESH HOFFMANN
PROFESSOR HERMANN BONDI , F.R.S. PROFESSOR BERNARD COHEN DR. MEYER WEISGAL
BERTRAND RUSSELL , O.M., F.R.S.
Compiled by DR. G. J. WHITROW of the Imperial College of Science and Technology
Produced by CHRISTOPHER SYKES

by Aimee van de Wiele
Part 1

by DR. PETER MURRAY
Piero della Francesca is usually admired for his calm classicism. the spacing and proportions of his figures and his pale, cool colours. The strong symbolic meaning which his pictures had for his contemporaries is often overlooked. Dr. Murray, Lecturer in Art History at the Courtauld Institute, London, suggests a new interpretation of his Frescoes in Arezzo. depicting the Legend of the Cross, and the Flagellation in the Ducal Palace at Urbino.

Part 2

MICHAEL HOWARD talks in particular about
Stravinsky's relationship to the musical practices of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance followed by an interlude at 10.55