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Sacred Tnology (Berlioz)
Part 1
Herod's Dream
10.2* Part 2
The Flight into Egypt
10.20* Part 3
The Arrival at Sais
ELSIE MORISON (soprano) EDGAR FLEET (tenor) PETER PEARS (tenor)
JOHN CAMERON (baritone) JOHN FROST (bass)
JOSEPH Rouleau (bass)
ST. ANTHONY SINGERS
GOLDSBROUGH ORCHESTRA
Conducted by Colin DAVIS gramophone records

Contributors

Soprano:
Elsie Morison
Baritone:
John Cameron
Bass:
Joseph Rouleau
Conducted By:
Colin Davis

Introduced by BRIAN JOHNSTON
Directed by John Fenton
Timings may be altered by events
*
12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast direct from the London Weather Centre followed by SPORTS PARADE
Introduced by CLIVE MASON
RACING
1.10 The Sandown Handicap Chase
For five-year-olds and upwards run over three miles, five furlongs, and about 18 yards
1.40 The Milburn Hurdle Race
For four-year-olds and upwards run ever two miles
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER
From Sandown Park
4.54* Racing Results
RUGBY UNION
Scotland v. Australia
1.55 Preview
2.25 Commentary by JOHN DOWNIE and ROBERT HUDSON with summaries and comments from CYRIL TOWERS
From Murrayfield, Edinburgh
CRICKET
2.5 Test Match Preview
BRIAN JOHNSTON looks forward to the forthcoming series between South Africa and Australia (The first match begins in Johannesburg on December 23)
3.45 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary by ALAN CLARKE and BRIAN MOORE 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 CLIVE MASON
Produced by ANGUS MACKAY
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50

Contributors

Introduced By:
Brian Johnston
Directed By:
John Fenton
Introduced By:
Clive Mason
Commentary By:
Peter Bromley
Unknown:
Roger Mortimer
Commentary By:
John Downie
Commentary By:
Robert Hudson
Unknown:
Brian Johnston
Commentary By:
Alan Clarke
Commentary By:
Brian Moore
Introduced By:
Clive Mason
Produced By:
Angus MacKay

An investigation of the ideas of the Canadian communications theorist and philosopher of the mass media
ERIC MOTTRAM traces the development of McLuhan's ideas as they have been expounded in his three books The Mechanical Bride (1951). The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), and Understanding Media (1964)
DR. McLUHAN talks about his current thinking with Eric Mottram in Toronto
ANDREW FORGE, JONATHAN MILLER and GEORGE STEINER discuss the validity, implications, and significance of McLuhan's theories
Introduced by PHILIP FRENCH
Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.55

Contributors

Unknown:
Eric Mottram
Unknown:
Jonathan Miller
Unknown:
George Steiner
Introduced By:
Philip French

Cantatas 1, 2, and 3 Conducted by Benjamin Britten
HEATHER HARPER (soprano) HELEN WATTS i contralto) PETER PEARS (tenor)
JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK (baritone)
AMRROSIAN SINGERS
Continuo:
Alan Brown (organ)
Philip Ledger (harpsichord) Martin Gatt (bassoon)
Bernard Richards (cello)
Adrian Beers (double-bass) ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz
Christians be joyful
8.29* And there were shepherds in the same country
9.0* Hear, King of Angels, though falter our voices
Presented by the Third Programme before an invited audience in St. Andrew's Church. Holborn.
Applications for tickets, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed]

Contributors

Conducted By:
Benjamin Britten
Soprano:
Heather Harper
Baritone:
John Shirley-Quirk
Unknown:
Alan Brown
Harpsichord:
Philip Ledger
Cello:
Bernard Richards
Leader:
Emanuel Hurwitz

in conversation with CARL WILDMAN
The creator of ' poetic realism ' in the cinema-who began his career as a director and screen playwriKht in the 1920s with Paris Qui dort and the film Entr'acte ia the Picabia-Satie ballet Reláchetalks about him making in the silent days. cineasts' debts to the Lumiere brothers and especially Méliès, the sudden technical advances of the past. and what can be envisaged for the future.
René Clair's first great success in England Sous les toits de Paris is now showing in London, together with his latest film Les Fêtes galantes.

Contributors

Unknown:
Carl Wildman

Edward Hudson by PAMELA MAUDE
Edward Hudson was the founder and tirs! editor of Country Life, and all his friends were pressed into the service of his beloved paper. Pamela Maude remembers Monday luncheons at his house in Queen Anne's Gate, and the evening parties where Suggia played. and the gruff, plain little man. with his obsession for beauty.
Second broadcast

Contributors

Unknown:
Edward Hudson
Unknown:
Pamela Maude
Unknown:
Edward Hudson
Unknown:
Pamela Maude

Network Three

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