Robin Richmond introduces your request records

and his Samba Orchestra

5-The Music Director
Robert MacDermot meets Muir Mathieson to talk about some of the music in recent British films

Conducted by Kneale Kelley

'The Bard' by Rhys Davies
Read by John Glyn-Jones

Conducted by Major A. Lemoine
Director of Music
Frank Titterton (tenor)

Conductor, Gilbert Vinter

A programme for children under five
Nursery rhymes. stories. and music

Louis Stevens and his Quintet with Scott Joynt (bass)

Sid Phillips and his Band

Mrs. Dale, the doctor's wife, records the daily happenings in the life of her family
Script by Lesley Wilson
(BBC .recording)

A message of comfort and cheer for all who are ' in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity'
Today's speaker, who is introduced by Stuart Hibberd , is the Rev. Ronald Selby Wright , Minister of the Kirk of the Canongate. Edinburgh

played by Leonard Hayes and his Orchestra
Dancing lesson by Cecil Ruault

Conductor, Kemlo Stephen

with the Mermaids and the Aloha Brass Choir

The Regent Orchestra
Conducted by John Thorpe

Tunes you have asked us to play

Tonight: excerpts from "The Marriage of Figaro" by Mozart.

Cast in order of singing:
BBC Opera Chorus
BBC Opera Orchestra
Conducted by Leo Wurmser
Introduced by Stephen Williams
Produced by Harold Neden

The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart's Figaro has more than one affinity with Rossini's Barber. In the first place it is, of course, a setting of Beaumarchais' sequel to The Barber -of Seville. In the second place, just as the first performance of Rossini's opera was wrecked by supporters of Paisiello, so the success of the early performances of Mozart's opera was jeopardised by the activities of his rival Salieri whose forty operas are now completely forgotten by the world at large. It is ironical that his very name is remembered only because he intrigued against Mozart and for many years was believed to have poisoned him in a passion of jealousy. It was largely due to Salieri's machinations that The Marriage of Figaro had only a few performances when it was first produced in Vienna in 1786. So it would seem that if one cannot be a great man oneself one can at least achieve immortality by injuring a great man! Salieri and Ringhini both had operas ready for performance at the time, but the Emperor Joseph II of Austria decided in favour of Figaro. Time has shown that the Emperor was right. Many people consider this Mozart's most felicitous and satisfying work. A comedy opera? Yes; but it is comedy that has its roots in the vagaries of the human heart, and our laughter is never far removed from tears. Stephen Williams

Tano Ferendinos , Dan Donovan
Ossie Morris , Ann Walters
Frank James , Marjorie Davies
Frank Davison , Dilys Lloyd
The Girls in Harmony
The Lyrian Singers
* The Adventures of Tommy Trouble' *
Script by E. Eynon Evans
Welsh Variety Orchestra
(Leader, Morgan Lloyd)
Produced by Mai Jones

Each week Victor Silvester gives you a ten-minute dancing lesson, followed by thirty minutes of dance music, played by his Ballroom Orchestra to enable you to practise the steps you have just learned
Produced by David Miller

by Raymond Chandler
Read by Howard Marion-Crawford

Jack Byfield and his Players
Frederic Curzon at the organ