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Introduced by JOHN LADE
Recent Opera Records reviewed by CEDRIC WALLIS
Building a Library: Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat major, by STANLEY SADIE

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0 Opera in two acts
Music by Mozart
Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE
Sung in Italian gramophone records
PHILHARMONIA
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by KARL BÖHM
The action takes place in Naples
ACT 1
10.34* ACT 2

Introduced by Steve Race.

Introduced by STEVE RACE 12.30 -6.0 SPORTS service
Introduced by MICHAEL DE MORGAN
Directed by Geoff Dobson
Timings may be altered by events
12.30 Your Afternoon Forecast from the London Weather Centre followed by 1.0 SPORTS PARADE
PLAIN SAILING
Featuring the ' club of the week,' buying a yacht, and housekeeping afloat
Introduced by PETER WHEELER
Produced by Tony Preston
From the North of England
First broadcast July 10
1.25 -2.10 : 2.45: 3.10: 3.40
MOTOR RACING
International Gold Cup Meeting
Commentaries by ROBIN RICHARDS and GEORGE HUMBLE
From Oulton Park
1.35 ATHLETICS
HAROLD ABRAHAMS looks back at Britain's performances this season and tries to assess our chances in next Friday and Saturday's International against Germany
1.50 BOXING
SIMON SMITH considers the prospects for Tuesday's World Flyweight Championship contest between Chartchai Chionoi and Walter McGowan. recalls some past performances by both boxers, and talks to some personalities concerned with the match
1.45 : 2.40: 3.20: 3.45
GOLF
The Dunlop Masters Tournament
Reports on the last two rounds of this 72-hole stroke-play event by TOM Scott
From the Royal St. George's Golf Club, Sandwich, Kent
This is the last of the four qualifying tournaments for the Alcan Championship to be played in October
2.25 RACING
The Crookham Stakes
For two-year-olds only run over seven furlongs and 60 yards
2.55 The J. & B. Whisky Trophy
For three-year-olds and upwards to be ridden by Amateur Riders, run over one mile and a half
3.25 The Peter Hastings Stakes For three-year-olds and upwards run over one mile and a quarter
Commentary by Peter BROMLEY with a summary by ROGER MORTIMER
From Newbury
4.54 Racing Results
3.50 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary by BRIAN Moore and MAURICE EDELSTON on the second half of one of today's English League matches
4.40 * In a Flash including 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

ALEC ROBERTSON discusses the art of plainsong and examines its aesthetic appeal for the general listener
Wednesday at 7.30 p.m.: Sacred Monody, first of two programmes o] early Christian chant

by APRIL
FITZLYON Mrs. FitzLyon feels that some works of art have an importance in the history of ideas quite out of proportion to their artistic merit. Victor Hugo 's Hernani was one of them; so was Verdi's Ernani
Second broadcast
Verdi's 'Ernani': Sunday at 2.0 p.m. in the Music Programme

0 Piano Quartet in E flat major,
Op. 87 played by SUZANNE ROZSA (violin)
WALTER GERHARDT (viola)
VIVIAN JOSEPH (cello)
LIZA FUCHSOVA (piano)
gramophone record

1909-1957
A study of a chaotic personality whose novel Under the Volcano has been recognised as one of the greatest works to be published since the war
Compiled and narrated by ARTHUR CALDER-MARSHALL
Speakers include
CONRAD AIKEN. EARLE BIRNEY ANTHONY BURGESS
ARA CALDER-MARSHALL
ERIC ESTERICK, T. R. HENN
STUART LOWRY , TOM MASCHLER IAN PARSONS , ROBERT POCOCK
John SOMMERFIELD , JAMES STERN Reader, HUGH BURDEN
Produced by Robert Pocock

A romantic opera
Libretto by JAMES GRUN
Music by Hans Pfitzner
Sung in German
First broadcast in this country
THE RUDOLF LAMY CHORUS
MUNICH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ROBERT HEGER
Recording made available by courtesy of Bavarian Radio

PROLOGUE
Scene 1 The Garden of Love
Scene 2 The Temple of the Sun

ACT 1
Outside the Garden: the Spring Gate

John Maddox formerly a theoretical physicist, then Science Correspondent of The Guardian, Co-ordinator of the Nuffield Science Teaching Project, and now Editor of Nature broadcasts the second of his four commentaries in this fortnightly current affairs series Next talk: September 30

ACT 2
The cave of the Lord of NtgM EFtLOGUE
Scene 1 Outside the Garden: the Winter Gate
Scene 2 The Temple of the Sun followed by an interlude at 10.50