and Weather Forecast

Introduced by JOHN LADE
Recent releases reviewed by ROBERT HENDERSON
Building a Library: Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, in A minor, by STEPHEN WALSH

and Weather Forecast

0 Opera in two acts
Music by Mozart
Libretto by EMANUEL SCHIKANEDER gramophone records
Sung In German
PHILHARMONIA
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA
Conducted by OTTO KLEMPERER
The scene Is laid In Egypt. in the neighbourhood of a temple of Isis and Osiris.
ACT 1

WALTER GIESEKING (piano)
Pavane pour une infante defunte
10.15* Menuet sur le nom d'Haydn
10.18* Miroirs gramophone records

ⓢ ACT 2
Seventh in a series of weekly programmes devoted to Mozart's last eight lull-length operas

Introduced by Steve Race.

Directed by John Fenton
Timings may be altered by events
12.10 Your Afternoon Forecast from the London Weather Centre
SPORTS PARADE
1.0 PLAIN SAILING
Featuring hints on hiring; mooring; ' harbour of the week'; ladies under power
Introduced by PETER WHEELER
Produced by Tony Preston from the North First broadcast July 17
CYCLING
1.25; 2.35; 3.0; 3.45
International 6-Day Cycle Race JOHN BURNS reports on the last day
From Earls Court
ATHLETICS
1.30 Great Britain and Northern Ireland v. West Germany
An illustrated report on Friday's events
2.25; 2.40; 3.35 Commentaries by NORMAN CUDDEFORD
Reports by PETER HILDRETH
From the White City Stadium
RACING
2.10 The Craigmore Selling Handicap
For ihrpe-year-olds only. run over six furlongs
2.45 The Bogside Cup
A handicap for three-year-olds and upwards, run over one mile and five furlongs
3.20 The Long John
Scotch Whisky Handicap
For three-year-olds only, run over one mile and a quarter
Commentary by MICHAEL SETH-SMITH
From Ayr
4.54* Racing Results
3.50 ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
Commentary by ALAN CLARKE and Simon SMITH on the second half of an English League match
4.40 In a Flash
Latest news from our commentators and the Sports Room, including football results as they come in 5.0 SPORTS REPORT
Produced by Angus Mackay
Classified Football Results at 5.0 and 5.50

String quartets composed in the first few years of the present century, during their composers' twenties LA SALLE STRING QUARTET
Walter Levin (violin) Henry Meyer (violin)
Peter Kamnitzer (viola) Jack Kerstein (cello)

An account of the events leading up to the production of Bernard Shaw 's play at His Majesty's Theatre on April 11, 1914
Compiled and written by RICHARD HUGGETT
Other parts played by David Brierley , Betty Hardy Denys Hawthorne Anthony Jackson
Haydn Jones , Victor Lucas Preston Lockwood and Denis McCarthy
Produced by CHARLES LEFEAUX Second broadcast followed by an interlude at 7.40

Heather Harper soprano
Helen Watts contralto
Alexander Young tenor
Donald McIntyre bass
London Symphony
Chorus and Orchestra
Leader. John Georgiadis
Conducted by Leopold Stokowski
From the Fairfield Hall, Croydon
0 Part 1
Wagner
Prelude, Act 1: Prelude, Act 3;
Dance of the apprentices; Entry of the Mastersingers (The Mastersingers)

Some thoughts on the role of the new universities by DONALD DAVIE
Professor of Literature, University of Essex
Professor Davie suggests that the swing from science which has been increasingly noted in sixth forms is less alarming than It might at tirst appear. He argues that the English as a race may have a unique talent as custodians of the past. and that it would be no ignoble pursuit for our universities to aim at preparing young people to exploit this talent as writers and historians, both here and abroad.

0 Part 2
Beethoven
Symphony No. 9, in D minor
(Choral)

A programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared Eric Sams discusses Schumann's Liederkreis, Op. 39 as sung by Dietrich Fischer -Dieskau, Gerard Souzay , Bern-hard Kruysen, Ernst Haefliger , Rita Streich , Kirsten Flagstad , and others

Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue in C major
LIONEL ROGG
Organ of the Grossmtinster, Zurich gramophone record