Comment and Action
A series of programmes about great classical dramas that are seldom performed in England
1—' PHEDRE ' by Racine
Edited by P. E. Charvet , with contributions by Jean-Louis Barrault May Agate , and Michel St. Denis . Produced by Mary Hope Allen with recordings in French by Sarah Bernhardt and Marie Bell

Piano Sonata in C (K.330) played by Nina Milkina
Second of a series of recitals in which Nina Milkina will play all the Mozart piano sonatas

' Battles by Letter '
1 — ' Benjamin Robert Haydon v. The Duke of Wellington.' Arranged by Viola Meynell . Edited and produced by Stephen Potter

Griller String Quartet:
Sidney Griller (violin), Jack O'Brien (violin), Philip Burton (viola), Colin Hampton (cello)
Eric Greene (tenor)
John Wills (piano)
Part 1

A sequence of poems combined by Terence Tiller. Readers, Loma Davis , Julian Somers , and Reginald Beckwith

Part 2
From the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London

A description of the battle fought on this day in 1805 and of Nelson's leadership, by David Mathew.

Extracts from Chaucer's poem arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill. Produced by Stephen Potter
1 — ' The Prologue and the Nun's Priest's Tale '
In this first selection are presented: the beginning of Chaucer's ' Prologue '-Chaucer's own preface to the whole group of stories: his description of the Parson, the Monk, the Friar, the Pardoner, and the Prioress; the words of the Nun's Priest and his story of Chanticleer the cock, Dame Pertelote the hen, and the fox. Introduced by Nevill Coghill , who has made this special version with the language partially modernised.
To quote Mr. Coghill: 'The language has changed since the 1390's. Some words have been dropped, some changed their meanings, some will neither rhyme nor scan if we pronounce them in the modern way.' He has made a version ' as faithful as I could with no wanton changes,' yet comprehensible to our ears.

Week by week the Third Programme will let listeners hear again the best talks of past years. This evening, a recording of Christopher Burney on ' Eighteen Months in Sotitary Confinement '
First broadcast on January 8, 1946
Christopher Burney was in solitary confinement in France from 1942 until his captors, the Germans, moved him elsewhere in 1944

played by the Grand Orchestre Phil harmonique of Paris, with M. Villa bella (tenor), and the Alexis Vlassov Russian Choir, conducted by Selmar Meyrowitz on gramophone records