Founder of Czech National Opera. Music from ' Dalibor' and ' The Kiss', with Mara Mensikova (soprano), Parry Jones (tenor), Otokar Kraus (baritone), Julius Gutt man (bass). BBC Theatre Chorus. BBC Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Vilem Tausky. Narrator, Carleton Hobbs .
Jan Masaryk , Foreign Secretary of the Czechoslovak Republic, introduces the programme in a specially recorded message