Hungarian String Quartet
Z. Szekely (violin) *
A. Moskowsky (violin)
D. Koromzay (viola)
V. Palotai (cello)
Part 1

'Where does Great Britain Stand? '
J. L. Hammond , Hon. Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, gives the second of two talks summing-up the series to which Professor E. H. Carr , Arnold Toynbee , Lionel Curtis , A. J. P. Taylor , and R. C. K. Ensor have contributed

Part 2

A visit to the cliffs and eaves of Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, with recordings of the grey seal made by Ludwig Koch. Description of Skomer by John Buxton. Produced by David Thomson

Forty-eight Preludes and Fugues played by Rcnata Borgatti (piano)
B flat (Book 2); G minor (Book 1); D minor (Book 2); G (Book 2); D (Book 2); G minor (Book 2)

Opera in four acts with a prologue by Modeste Mussorgsky
Text founded on Pushkin's drama
Original version, edition Paul Lamm
Narration and production by Humphrey Procter-Gregg
(For full cast see page 18)
Period, 1598-1605
Prologue
Scene 1: The monastery courtyard,
Novodevichy, near Moscow. (The crowd is incited to clamour for Boris to quit the cloister and become Tsar)
Scene 2: A square In the Kremlin.
(The pageantry of Boris's coronation)
Act 1
Scene 1: A cell in the Chudov monastery. (The old monk Pimen writes Russian history, concluding with the buried crime of Boris; while the novice Grigory dreams of a throne)
Scene 2: An inn near the Lithuanian border. (Such dreams are dangerous: Grigory escapes with his life)

GARNETT
1861-1946
An appreciation by Edward Crankshaw , introduced by some reflections made by Constance Garnett herself on her experience as a translator

Act 2
The Tsar's private apartments in the Kremlin, (Even in his children's nursery Boris finds little respite from conspiracy without and a guilty conscience within) Act 3
The castle of Sandomir in Poland
Scene 1: The dressing-room of Marina Mnishek. (Upon the ambition and superstition of Marina the Jesuit Rangoni plays to some purpose)
Scene 2: The fountain terrace. (Grigory, now the pretender imitry, adores Marina; and in his plot to claim the throne of Boris, becomes the Jesuit's tool for the conversion of Russia)

James Stephens discusses the death of the epic in poetry and its replacement by the epic in prose

Act 4
Scene 1: Reception hall in the Kremlin. (Boris, stricken in mind and body, enters the Duma for the last time)
Scene 2: A clearing in the forest near
Kromy. (.Cruel sports of the rebellious Russian populace: Orthodox and Jesuit propaganda in conflict: Dimitry heads the rebels towards Moscow: left in the snow, the Simpleton mourns for misguided Russia)