An opera specially commissioned for television.
(See panel and page 3)

At 9.40 the World Premiere of "Tobias and the Angel"
An opera specially commissioned for television
Libretto by Christopher Hassall
After the Apocryphal Book of Tobit
Music by Arthur Bliss
London Symphony Orchestra
Leader Hugh Maguire
Conductor Norman Del Mar

Scenes: 1. Nineveh: Market Place 2. Outside Tobit's hovel 3. The banks of the River Tigris 4. Ecbatane, Capital of Media: Raguel's garden 5. The Wedding Feast 6. A Burial Ground outside the Palace 7. Ante-room and Bridal Chamber 8. Garden and Terrace, the next morning 9. Nineveh: Market Place

The time is a great while ago, the age of the Old Testament. Christ will not be born for another 722 years. The chariots of the Assyrians have overrun the land of Israel, whose vanquished peoples have been carried off into exile. Among them was the tribe of Nepthali, and to it belonged a man called Tobit. He was a just and upright man in the sight of God, and his great possessions had stretched from the inmost borders of his country even unto the shores of the sea. Now he and his family are exiles living in poverty in Nineveh, the proud capital of the Assyrians, who sell their prisoners into slavery.