Song-cycle by Faure
Poems by Verlaine
Une Sainte en son aureole Puisque I'aube grandit
La lune blanche luit dans les bois J'allais par des chemins perfides J'ai presque peur, en vérité Avant que tu ne t'en ailles
Done, ce sera par un clair jour d'été N'est-ce pas?
L'hiver a cesse sung by Joan Alexander (soprano) with Robert Irving (piano)

by Desmond MacCarthy
This is one of a series of programmes broadcast in the BBC's Far Eastern Service in which well-known critics and writers choose one of their favourite passages of English writing and say why they like it-why, in fact. they think it good English Desmond MacCarthy has selected a passage from Vanity Fair.

Sixteenth-Century Music played by the London Harpsichord Ensemble
Introduced by Denis Stevens
To be repeated on May 23

by Lord Byron
Produced by Patric Dickinson

A lyric drama in three acts by Antonin Dvorak
Libretto by Jaroslav Kvapil
Cast, in order of singing
Chorus and Orchestra of the Czechoslovak
Broadcasting Corporation
(Chorus Master, Jiri Pinkan )
Conducted by Alois Klima
(This recording from Prague has been made available to the BBC by courtesy of the Czechoslovak Broadcasting Corporation)
Act 1
A wooded glade by a lake

A talk by R. C. K. Ensor who wrote ' England, 1870-1914 '
He deals with the period of schisms and defeats through which British Liberalism passed between its mid-Victorian and its Edwardian triumphs

Act 2: The garden surrounding the Prince's palace

and the Study of Civilisation
Talk by Herbert Butterfield , Professor of Modem History at Cambridge
Many of our assumptions about the genesis of the modern world and such concepts as the Renaissance and the Age of Reason have been displaced by the new study of the history of science. Can it also provide the link that has long been needed between the sciences and the humanities?

Act 3: A wooded glade by a lake

Pro Musica Antiqua Ensemble
Director, Safford Cape Programme edited by J. A. Westrup
Introduced by Alec Robertson