General editor. Gerald Abraham
27-Monteverdi and his Contemporaries
Editor, J. A. Westrup
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Ceinwen Rowlands (soprano)
René Soames (tenor)
Norman Walker (bass)
BBC Singers
Diana Poulton (lute)
Ambrose Gauntlett (viola da gamba)
Dolmetsch Recorder Consort
John Wills (harpsichord)
Ralph Downes (organ)
Jacques String Orchestra
(Leader, Ruth Pearl )
Conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
Introduced by Alec Robertson

by Thomas Holcroft
Adapted for broadcasting by Ronald Simpson
Introduced by Compton Mackenzie
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham

Solomon (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1

Mary Scrutton reviews A. C. Ewing 's book ' The Definition of Good'

Part 2

Leonard Sachs reads passages from 'A Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron with the Countess of Blessington,' in which she recorded her impressions of the poet formed during a visit to Italy in 1823. Today is the centenary of Lady Blessington's death

Illustrated talk by Peter Stadlen

Tel jour, telle nuit (9 melodies sur des poemes de Paul Eluard ) Bonne journee; Une ruine coquille vide; Le front comme un drapeau perdu; Une roulotte couverte en tuiles; A toutes brides; Une herbe pauvre; Je n'ai envie que de t'aimer; Figure de force brulante et farouche: Nous avons fait la nuit sung by Pierre Bernac (baritone) accompanied by the composer on gramophone records