by Benjamin Britten
Libretto by Eric Crozier
Produced by Frederick Ashton
The English Opera Group
Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Jack Kessler )
Conducted by Benjamin Britten
The action 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's house
Scene 2: Mrs. Herring's shop

The last of four illustrated talks by William Glock on his recent visit to Munich, Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Hamburg, and Copenhagen

* The Homeric Question Today'
W. F. Jackson Knight reviews some new books from the United
States and Switzerland by Rhys Carpenter , Heinrich Pestalozzi , and Ernst Howald

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

Mrs. Herring's shop

Comment and Action
A series of programmes designed to introduce great English and foreign plays seldom performed in this country
5-Calderon's ' LIFE'S A DREAM '
Selections from the play translated by J. B. Trend and Frank Birch , with a commentary written and spoken by Frank Birch. Produced by Mary Hope Allen. With Robert Speaight as Sigismund, Angela Baddeley as Rosaura Dignam , and Mark Dignam as King Basilio
Spanish extract spoken by Rafael Terry
Music selected and conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough

Hans Hotter (baritone)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Der Wanderer (Schmidt von Lubeck) Der Wanderer an den Mond (Seidl) Greisengesang (Ruckert)
Sei mir gegrtisst (Ruckert)
Am Bach im Friihling (Schober) Auf der Donau (Mayrhofer) Wie Ulfru fischt (Mayrhofer)
Gruppe aus dem Tartarus (Schiller) Grenzen der Menschheit (Goethe) An Schwager Kronos (Goethe)