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Early music
Part I PALESTRINA Missa Papae Marcelli
CHOIR OF ST. HEDWIG'S CATHEDRAL
BERLIN
Conducted by KARL FORSTER

Magnificat. fur six voices
CHOIR Of the CARMELITE PRIORY, LONDON
Conducted by GEORGE MALCOLM gramophone records

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Part 2 CAVALLI Messa Concertata
ANNA MARIA VALLIN (soprano) WANDA MADONNA (contralto) GIORGIO TADDEO (bass)
CORO POLIFONICO OF MILAN ANGELlCUM OHCHKSTHA
Conducted by UMBERTO CATTINI gramophone record

Corrente quattro
Capriccio sopra La Bergamasca played by AI.AN HARVERSON (organ)
Second bruadcast

Stabat Mater
JUDITH RASKIN (soprano)
MAUREEN LEHANE (contralto) ROSSINI ORCHESTRA OF NAPIES
Conducted by FRANCO CARACCIOLO gramophone record

Introduced by John Lade
Review of Recent Records by Joan Chissell, Edward Greenfield, and Paul Tilley
Book Review by Donald Aldous

Introduced by Humphrey Lyttelton.

Introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON
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
RACING
1.5 The Cheltenham Trial Hurdle
For four-year-olds and upwards, run over two miles and about 200 yards
1.45 The Tetbury Handicap Hurdle
For four-year-olds and upwards. run over three miles and a few yards
2.15 The Massey-Ferguson Gold Cup
A handicap chase for five-year-olds and upwards, run over two miles andahalf
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER
From Cheltenham
4.54* Racing Results
RUGBY UNION
Ulster v. Australian Tourists
2.0 Preview
2.30 Commentary by SAMMY WALKER and ROBERT HUDSON
From Ravenhill , Belfast
4.0 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary by BRIAN MOORE and SIMON SMITH on the second half of one of today's English League games
4.40* Football 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

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
After its Berlin premiere. The Zoo
Story was first produced in New
York off-Broadway in 1960. It scored an immediate success. launched one of the most significant of contemporary dramatists. and marked a turninx-point in the history of the post-war American theatre. The characters it portrays-archetypes of the Hipster and the Square in Norman Mailer 's detinition - typify the social change which came over
American life in the late 1950s.
Produced by D. G. BRIDSON
Second broadcast
Revolt on the Campus by Ralph Gleasvn : Monday at 10.0 p.m.

harpsichord
Toccata in D minor (Froberger)
Laments (Froberger)
Suite in C major (Buxtehude) gramophone records

Robert Conquest broadcasts the last current affairs commentary of the year in this fortnightly series.
Christopher Layton : January 7 followed by an Interlude at 7.25

An opera by Malcolm Williamson
Libretto by WILLIAM CHAPPELL after the novel by PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR from
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London
Cast in order of singing:
SADLER'S WELLS Chorus
Chorus-Master, John Barker
SADLER'S WELLS ORCHESTRA Leader. John Sealey
Conducted by VILEM TAUSKY
Produced by WILLIAM CHAPPELL
First broadcast performance
Prologue: The open sea
ACT 1
The liana jungle on the Island of Saint-Jacques

A basket man - BRIAN O'KEEFFE (tenor) HANDEL THOMAS (bass)
An old fisherman - DEREK HAMMOND-STROUD (baritone)
Two oarsmen - PAUL JANSSEN (tenor) HANDEL THOMAS (bass)
Two netmen - PETER TRACEY (baritone) DONALD SOLOMON (bass)
Berthe. niece of the Count de Serindan - .APRIL. CANTELO (soprano)
Sosthtne de Serindan, the Count's son - David HILLMAN (tenor)
Josephine de Serindan. the Count's dauKhter - PATRICIA KERN (mezzo-soprano)
Marcel Sciocca, son of the Gov ernor - DAVID BOWMAN (baritone)
Acenor, Count de Serindan - OWEN BRANNIGAN (bass)
GentiHen, the Count's butler - JAMES SINGLETON (baritone)
Mathilde. Countess de Serindan - JENNIFER VYVYAN (soprano)
Captain Henri Joubert - John FRYATT (tenor)
Madame Sciocca - WENDY BALDWIN (soprano)
Governor Sciocca - EMILE BELCOURT (tenor)
Twin brothers Francois de Chambines - TERENCE HALL (tenor)
Gontran de Chambines - BRIAN O'KEEFFE (tenor)
Maman Zelie - ANN ROBSON (mezzo-soprano)

A group of three talks by Mark GIROUARD architectural historian, who has studied relations between the arts during the period 1730-1760.
How did Rococo, which had started in France as a style of ornament, reach England? Once here. how was it adapted by English designers and architects?
1: The Slaughter
Coffee House Set
From the seventeen-thlrties. Slaughter's Coffee House in St. Martin's Lane. London, became the meeting place of a group of artists, writers, and actors fathered round Hogarth, who between them pioneered the Rococo style in England.
Vauxhall Gardens and the Anti-Palladians: December 18

ACT 2 ocene 1 The ballroom, Beauseiour
Scene 2 A street by the harbour

After forty years of continuous existence the Ballet Rambert reappears as a company of soloists trained in contemporary as well as classical styles.
Dame Marie RAMBERT and NORMAN MORRICE her artistic director see this re-formed company as an instrument for creative exploration. They discuss their organisation and aims with CARL WILDMAN

ACT 3
Scene 1 The ballroom, Beausejour
Scene 2 The open sea at dawn

An illustrated programme In which SIR ADRIAN BOULT gives some personal reminiscences of Vaughan Williams and talks to ROBERT LAYTON about the interpretative problems that arise in his music.
Second broadcast
See Monday at 8.55 p.m. followed by an interlude at 10.90