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JAMES Tocco (U.S.A.)
Scarlatti
Scnata in F major <L. 479)
Sonata in A major (L. 345)
Sonata in E major (L. 470) Victoria POSTNIKOVA (U.S.S.RJ
The last of six programmes

A request programme of records

A weekly review edited by Anna Instone and Julian Herbage
Introduced by JULIAN HERBAGE
Honegger and the Symphony by COLIN MASON
The Queen Elizabeth Hall by NOËL GOODWIN, in conversation with HUBERT BENNETT , JOHN DENISON and RALPH DOWNES
The Art of Gerald Moore , by ALEC ROBERTSON

by Vaughan Williams
Libretto by J M. SYNGE
Women's voices of the BBC NORTHERN SINGERS
Chorus Master, Stephen Wilkinson
BBC NORTHERN
Symphony ORCHESTRA
Leader. Reginald Stead
Conducted by MEREDITH DAVIES
Produced and adapted for radio by DENNIS ARUNBELL

BBC Chorus
BBC CHORAL SOCIETY
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Associate Leader, Trevor Williams
Conducted by ANTAL DORATI
Part 1

ANTONY HOPKINS discusses a work or theme of current interest

Part 2 Given before an Invited audience in BBC Studio 1. Maida Vale, London. Requests for tickets for future concerts may be sent to [address removed], enclosing a stamped addressed envelope

0 String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76
No. 2 (Fifths)
QUARTETTO ITALIANO
Paolo Borciani (violin) Elisa Pegreffi (violin) Piero Farulli (viola) Franco Rossi (cello) gramophone record

A recital from the Royal Festival Hall, London
[Stereo]

Part 1
Chopin Four Mazurkas F sharp minor, Op. 6 No. 1; C major, Op. 24 No. 2; C sharp minor, Op 30 No. 4; B major, Op. 63 No. 1

3.12* Ballade in F minor

3.25* Beethoven Fifteen Variations, with fugue, on a theme from Prometheus, Op 35

ARTHUR HEDLEY talks to
ALAN WALKER about Chopin

0 Part 2
Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales
4.17* Chopin
Sonata in B flat minor

played by the GUARNERI STRING QUARTET Arnold Steinhardt (violin) John Dalley (violin) Michael Tree (viola) David Soyer (cello)

by W. M. Simon
Professor of History at the University of Keele
Auguste Comte, with his domestic eccentricities and his do-it-yourself ' religion of humanity.' is a ready target for those who find philosophers tigures of fun. Yet his rositivist philosophy was a remarkably interesting response to the unprecedented problems set by the Europe which followed the French Revolution.
Second broadcast

First in a series of eight programmes each containing a major choral work by Haydn John Shaw (baritone)
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Royal Opera House
Orchestra, Covent Garden Leader, Charles Taylor Conducted by Douglas Robinson
PART 1: Boito and Havergal Brian

A group of three talks
3: Greece and Paleolithic Man by E. S. HIGGS
Mr. Higgs, of the Department of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, talks about the origins of homo sapiens, about his hunting economy, and its relation to agriculture and urban civilisation. His talk is based on recent excavations at Aspro Chaliko and Kastritsa in Western Greece.

Part 2: Hat/dn
MASS No. 8, In B flat major
(Heiligmesse)
Second broadcast
Nelson Mass: March 19

5: William Dean Howells by KENNETH GRAHAM
Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Southampton
The fifth of a series of six talks on the relationship between artistic achievement and technical innovation in the main tradition of the American novel.

A play by Heddy E. Rossi with The great Danish philosopher Saren Kirkegaard (1813-1855) Is still exercising an important Influence on the thought of our time as the founder of existential philosophy. This play deals with a decisive episode in his life, his relationship with Regina Olsen. the girl he loved, wooed, and wanted to marry
Other characters in order of speaking:
Produced by MARTIN ESSLIN
Second broadcast
Alec McCowen is In After the bain ' at the Duchess Theatre. London; Glenda Jackson is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company

Ballade in G minor
10.40* Sonata in E minor
KJELL BAEKKELUNB (piano)
Second broadcast