Libretto by Eric Crozier
Produced by Frederick Ashton
The English Opera Group
Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Kessler )
Conducted by Benjamin Britten
The action of the comedy takes place during April and May of the year 1900 at Loxford, a small market town in East Suffolk
Act 1
Scene 1: The morning room in Lady
Billows' house
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop

'Le Rosier de Madame Husson' by Guy de Maupassant, is the story on which Benjamin Britten's opera 'Albert Herring' is based. James McKechnie reads a passage from the translation by Ernest Boyd and Storm Jameson

Campoli (violin)
Denise Lassimonne (piano)
Piano:
Three-part Inventions
Violin:
Chaconne

Act 2
Scene 1: A marquee in the Rectory garden
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop

Act 3
Mrs. Herring's shop

Comment and Action
A series of programmes designed to introduce great English and foreign plays that are seldom performed in this country
' TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT' by Christopher Marlowe
(The birth of English poetic drama)
Selections from the play, with a commentary written by M. R. Ridley
Produced by Mary Hope Allen

A selective appreciation by Laurence Whistler. Reader, George Rose. Produced by Patric Dickinson