General editor, Gerald Abraham
3-The Beginnings of Polyphony
Editor,
Dom Anselm Hughes , O.S.B.
The Bqdley Singers
Conducted by Philip J. Taylor
Diana Poulton (lute)
Programme introduced by Alec Robertson
(Music recorded from the Holywell Music Rooms, Oxford)
Fourth programme in this series: January 24

E. L Grant Watson , talks about the author of ' Seven Gothic Tales ' and ' Out of Africa'
Reader, Mary O'Farrell

' La Muiron,' by Anatole France
Adapted and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Bernard Miles as Napoleon
Anthony Jacobs as Lavallette
In this little-known fragment by a nineteenth-century French master, Bonaparte discusses supernatural happenings with the scientists Monge and Berthollet, his aide-de-camp Lavallette, and Admiral Gantheaume. The action takes place on board the frigate that brought Napoleon from Egypt for the coup d'etdt of 1799

Full performance in Czech of the opera by Bedrich Smetana
Libretto by Karl Sabina
Characters:
Krusina, a peasant Ludmila, his wife
Marenka, their daughter Micha, a peasant
Hata, his second wife Vasek. her son
Jenik, son of Micha's first wife
Kecal, the village marriage broker
Act 1

Act 2

Act 3

A new weekly programme made up of letters from listeners to the Third Programme
Tonight, Frank Birch , the editor of the programme, presents his flrat selection from your comments and rejoinders

Piano Sonata in C sharp minor
Op. 27 No. 2
Piano Sonata in A, Op. 101 played by Solomon