Toccata in C minor, for harpsichord
Sonata in E, No. 3, for violin and harpsichord played by Max Rostal (violin) and Aimée van de Wiele (harpsichord)

A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent

Michael Tippett talks about the composition of his new opera, ' The Midsummer Marriage '
Singers:
Victoria Sladen (soprano)
Richard Lewis (tenor) and the Morley College Choir with Antony Hopkins (piano)

Joan Hammond (soprano) Gladys Ripley (contralto)
Frank Titterton (tenor) Norman Walker (bass)
London Philharmonic Choir
(Chorus-Master,
Frederic Jackson )
London Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David Wise )
Conducted by Victor de Sabata
Part 1

Bernard Wall talks about the author of ' I Promessi Sposi ,' in whose honour Verdi composed his Requiem
'It is,' said Verdi, 'a heart-felt impulse, or rather necessity, which prompts me to do honour as best I can to that Great One whom I so much admired as a writer and venerated as a man.'

Part 2
From the Royal Albert Hall. London

Philip Hope-Wallace, radio and theatre critic, comments on recent dramatic productions in the Third Programme. He deals in particular with ' The Great Divorce ' and ' The Origin of Spectes '

Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 28 played by Cortot (piano)

The development of a persecution complex from a childhood fantasy to a fixed idea in manhood
Written by Nesta Pain , from material supplied by Alexander Kennedy , Professor of Psychological Medicine in the University of Durham, who speaks at the end of the programme
Music composed by John Buckland
Conducted by Edward Clark
Production by Nesta Pain

Poems by Alexander Blok , Boris Pasternak , and Vladimir Maya kovsky

String Quartet No. 4 played by the Guilet Quartet on gramophone records