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Part 1
SCHUBERT
Overture; Shepherd's Melody and Chorus of Shepherds; Huntsmen's Chorus (Ballet Music: Rosamunde)
NETHERLANDS RADIO CHORUS
AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA
Conducted by BERNARD HAITINK
on a gramophone record
(Stereophonic broadcast)

Quartet No. 2, played by the AMADEUS STRING QUARTET
Third broadcast

Gesang der Geister uber den
Wassern
BBC MEN'S CHORUS
Conductor, PETER GELLHORN
Second broadcast

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Symphony for cello and orchestra,
Op. 68
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conducted by THE COMPOSER on a gramophone record
ⓢ Stereophonic broadcast

Octet in F major (D.803)
MELOS ENSEMBLE
Second broadcast

Sinfonia da Requiem
PHILHARMONIA ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER on a gramophone record
ⓢ Stereophonic broadcast

Violin Concerto in D major
(Brahms)
Fritz KREISLER LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conducted by SIR JOHN BARBIROLLI
11.39* Grosse Fuge , Op. 133
(Beethoven)
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILHELM FURTWANGLER

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

Cricket
12.33; 2.20; 3.20; 3.55; 5.5
Worcestershire v. Derby
Commentary by JOHN ARLOTT
From Kidderminster
Yorkshire v. Surrey
Commentary by ROBERT HUDSON
From Bradford
Kent v. Hampshire
Commentary by BRIAN JOHNSTON
From Gillingham
Northamptonshire v. Leicestershire
Commentary by NEIL DURDEN-SMITH
From Northampton

1.50 Lunchtime Scoreboard

Racing
1.45 Down the Card by Michael Seth-Smith
3.5 The Kenneth Robertson Stakes
3.35 The Oxfordshire Stakes
Commentary by Michael Seth-Smith with summaries by Roger Mortimer
From Newbury
4.55 Racing Results
5.0 Racing Review by Michael Seth-Smith

Rugby Union
1.55 New Zealand Maoris v. British Isles
Illustrated report by Bob Irvine
From Auckland
Broadcast by arrangement with New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation

Bowls
2.5; 4.45; 5.57
International Bowls Championships
Reports by Cedric Smith
From the Watneys Sports Club, Mortlake

Cycling
2.10; 3.50; 4.50
Mackeson Premier Road Races
John Burns reports on this afternoon's amateur and professional cycle races
From the Crystal Palace Circuit

4.15 VIII British Empire and Commonwealth Games
Recorded commentaries and reports from the BBC team of commentators on the eighth day's events
From Kingston, Jamaica

Ballet: Fancy Free
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by THE COMPOSER on a gramophone record
ⓢ Stereophonic broadcast

SUSAN BRADSHAW , who was a pupil of Pierre Boulez , offers some guide-lines to the thinking of this influential figure on the current musical scene

GERALD ENGLISH (tenor)
† JAYE CONSORT
Francis Baines (hurdy-gurdy, cornemuse, and shawm)
Elizabeth Baines
(fiddle and portative organ)
Jennifer Ryan (medieval harp) John Isaacs (recorder) Peter Vel (percussion) Desmond Dupre (lute)

A symposium
Ten years after the death of Michael Ventris , Leonard Cottrell has interviewed internationally known archaeologists, philologists. and historians, and invited them to comment not only on Linear B but on the progress made in our overall understanding of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations.
Contributors include
DR. EMMETT L. BENNETT , JNR.
DR. JOHN BOARDMAN
DR. JOHN CHADWICK
VINCENT DESBOROUGH
SINCLAIR HOOD
PROFESSOR SPYRIDON MARINATOS
PROFESSOR DENYS PAGE
PROFESSOR LEONARD PALMER
DR. FRANK STURBINGS
Produced by Leonard Cottrell
Second broadcast

An unusual programme in three parts
Introduced by Robert Simpson
Ronald Smith
(piano)
Maurice Cole (piano)
Aeolian String Quartet Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Margaret Major (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
Part 1
Piano Sonata in E major. Op.
14 No. played by Ronald Smith
String Quartet in F major. Op.
14 No.

by J. 0. Wisdom
Reader in Logic and Scientific Method at the University of London
The second of two talks on Great Britain's social ills. In the first J. 0. Wisdom, who is at present Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California, listed the symptoms and attempted to find their source. He now develops his theme and discusses the question of prognosis.

Part 2
Variations and Fugue on a theme from Prometheus, Op. 35
Finale (Eroica Symphony) arranged for piano by Liszt
Both played by Ronald Smith

Every generation, APRIL FITZLYON suggests, must have its own victim. And if adulation is the hallmark of the victim then Vincenzo Bellini 's short career as the adored composer of the early nineteenth century made him the undisputed choice of the Romantic era.
Bellini's opera ' I Capuleti ed
Montecchi ': Sunday, 8.15 p.m.

Part 3
Grosse Fuge , Op. 134, for two pianos
Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, for string quartet