Gareth Morris (flute)
Evelyn Rothwell (oboe)
Denis Brain (horn)
Leonard Hirsch (violin)
Max Gilbert (viola)
Harvey Phillips (cello)
J. Edward Merrett (double-bass)
Joan Davies (piano)

Discussion between
Alex Comfort and Giles Romilly
The dramas that Aeschylus and Shelley based on the Prometheus myth have recently been performed in the Third Programme. The speakers discuss the significance of the myth. and the differing interpretations of Aeschylus, Shelley. and other poets

Opera by Gluck
Libretto by Calzabigi adapted by du Rollet
Chorus and Orchestra
Radio Lyrique
Conductor. Albert Wolff
From Paris.
The action takes place in Pherae and in Hades, in legendary times
Part 1
8.30 Interlude

Part 2

Last of a series of Friday-evening commentaries on current affairs by the Editor of The Economist

Margaret Hodsdon (virginal)
Consort of Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis:
August Wenzinger (treble viol)
Marianne Majer (tenor viol) Maya Wenzinger (tenor viol)
Gertrud Fliigel (bass viol) (Fifth of six programmes)

by Conor O'Brien
A talk about the pleasures of messing about in boats, written by the master of the Saoirse, author of ' Across Three Oceans ' and other books.
Arthur Ransome is the author of the ' Swallows and Amazons ' books and also of ' Racundra's First Cruise,' which has just been re-published

Symphony No. 5, Op. 100 played by the Concertgebouw Orchestra
Conducted by Eduard van Beinum

John Hayward talks about T. S. Eliot 's first book of poems