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Solomon an oratorio (1748)
Elizabkth HARWOOD (soprano) EI.I7.ABt:TH Vaughan (soprano) PATRICIA Clark (soprano) MARY THOMAS (soprano)
YVONNt: MINTON (contralto) ROBERT Tkar (tenor) JOHN HOLMES (bass)
Covknt Garden OPERA Chorus
Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson BBC CHORUS
Ctmlinuo:
Maurits Sillem (harpsichord) Alan Harverson (organ) Anthony Pini (cello)
Frederick Wigston (double-bass)
Orchestra OF THE
Royai. OPERA House, COVENT GARDEN Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by Charles Mackerras
Part 1: Act 1

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Solomon
Part 2: Acts 2 and 3 Second broadcast
Fifth of an extended series of programmes devoted to a wide range of Handel's music and in particular his operas and oratorios May 14: Orlando

piano Chopin
Scherzo No. 4, in E major
Fantaisie-Impromptu in C sharp minor
Nocturne in E major
10.35* Mussorgsky
Pictures from an Exhibition gramophone records

Introduced by JOHN Lace
Building a Library: Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, by ROBERT HENDERSON
Recent records of pre-classical music: reviewed by CHARLES CUDWORTH

Introduced by Steve Race.

Introduced by Michael De Morgan
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
BADMINTON HORSE TRIALS
1.0; 2.15; 2.40; 3.45
RAYMOND BROOKS-WARD reports, from Badminton, on the Speed and Endurance Phase
See Page 4
1.5 SPORTING CHANCE
The Resident Team MAURICE EDELSTON
NORMAN CUDDEFORD, LIAM NOLAN v.
Dollar Academy
Question-Master, ALUN WILLIAMS
Produced by Geoff Dobson
From Dollar Academy, Dollar. Clackmannanshire. Scotland
Last Tuesday's broadcast (Light)
1.35 CRICKET
Round the Counties
The last in a series of four programmes looking at the prospects for the coming season
This week: The North
DON MOSEY talks to the captains of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derby-shire, and Nottinghamshire
BOWLS
1.50; 3.50
CEDRIC SMITH reports from the Crystal Palace Indoor Bowling Court on the British Isles Indoor Championships
RACING
1.55 The St. Anne's Stakes
2.25 The Greenham Stakes
2.55 The Newbury Spring Cup
Commentary by PETER BROMLEY with summaries by ROGER MORTIMER
From Newbury
4.54* Racing Results
RUGBY UNION
3.10; 4.40
County Championship Final replay
Durham v. Surrey
Commentary and reports by ROBERT HUDSON
From Hartlepool
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
3.40; 3.55
F.A. Amateur Cup Final
Enfield v.
Skelmersdale United
Commentary by BRIAN MOORE and SIMON SMITH
From the Empire Stadium. Wembley
4.45. Football Results as they come in direct from the BBC Sports Room
5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Produced by Angus Mackay
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50 I

SCUOLA DI CHIESA
Conductor, JOHN HOBAN
Recorded at a public concert In the Church of Notre Dame de France, Leicester Square. London. on November 17. 1966

by Jasper Ridley
A personal portrait of Thomas Cromwell compiled from the anecdotes and reminiscences of the men who knew him, among them John Foxe. Cardinal Pole, the Emperor's Ambassador Chapuvs. George Cavendish , and the Italian writer Bandello
Produced by Nesta Pain
Second broadcast

From the Ulster Hall, Belfast
In association with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Peter Katin (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra Leader, Trevor Williams Conducted by Walter Susskind
Part 1

Two talks on theology and iconography in the Middle Ages by GEOFFREY Webb
2: Christ of the Trades
Julian of Norwich saw endless humanised heavens literally inside the feudal figure of God the Father. The psychology of this iconography reconciles the elements in conflict between the exclusive de luxe quality of the Wilton Diptych and the crudely vigorous Christ of the trades in the popular murals.

Part 2

A series of five programmes 2: D. G. Rostetti
1828-1882
Sonnets from The House of Life
Chosen and introduced by DAVID DAVIS
Reader. Gabriel WOOLF
Produced by David Davis
The Defence of Guinevere, by William Morris : May 11

Sonata No. 2
EMIL Gilels (piano) gramophone record