Dresden State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Karl Bohm : Overture, Egmont (Beethoven)
Charles Brill Orchestra , conducted by Charles Brill : Die Welt auf dem Monde (The World on the Moon) (Haydn)
Paris Philharmonic .Orchestra, conducted by Cloez : La Troyenne (Les Erinnyes) (The Furies) (Massenet)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bart. : Der Eichbaum (The Oak Tree). Humoresque (The Tempest) (Sibelius)
Royal Opera House Orchestra. conducted by JSrnefelt : Ballad (King Christian) (Sibelius)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Clemens Krauss : Entry and Dance of the Tailors, Entry of Cleonte (after Lully) (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) (Richard Strauss )
London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Muir Matheson : Epilogue (Things to Come) (Bliss)

by A Hilversum Orchestra
Vocalist, Jetty Cantor from Hilversum

A short story by Anton Chekhov , read by Micheline Patton
While Anton Chekhov is probably best known as a dramatist, he was also a short-story writer of undoubted genius. His stories indeed have a sensitiveness and insight into human psychology that is scarcely surpassed in a country whose literature is renowned for these qualities. Chekhov has been called the play-wright of farewells, and in ' The Kiss ' he writes of that saddest of all farewells, the good-bye of a man to something that he has never really had.
The story is simple enough, and the heart of the reader or listener must go out to the timid little officer, Ryabovitch, who, with his ' spectacles, sloping shoulders, and * whiskers like a lynx's ' reaps his few-seconds of unexpected heaven, and finds that they lead him to a disillusionment that he can bravely defy.

on gramophone records

(by permission of the Air Council)
Conducted by Squadron-Leader,
R. P. O'Donnell , M.V.O., Director of Music, Royal Air Force from the Royal Air Force Head-quarters, Uxbridge

with Tommy Kinsman and his Dance Orchestra