Miroirs, Nos. 1, 4, 5
Noctuelles: Jacques Fevrier (piano) Alborado del gracioso: La vallée des cloches: Walter Gieseking (piano)
* on gramophone records

Denis Mack Smith analyses some of the underlying factors affecting the political and economic position of Italy.

General editor. Gerald Abraham
28-Early Italian Oratorio
Editor, J. A. Westrup
Ena Mitchell (soprano) Mary Jarred (contralto) William Herbert (tenor) Harold Child (baritone) Trevor Anthony (bass)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Michael Howard (organ) The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Conducted by Walter Goehr
Introduced by Alec Robertson

by W. B. Yeats
. Music for Aleel's songs composed by Herbert Murrill
Sidonie Goossens (harp) Production by Noel Iliff

Opera by Beethoven
Libretto by Sohnleithner and Treitschke
Cast, in order of singing:
Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (Chorus-Master, Max Thurn)
Conducted by Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Producer, Gunther Rennert
Scene: A Spanish State Prison outside Seville in the Middle Ages
Act 1
The inner court of the prison

The Origins of the Sceptical
Philosophy of the Present Day
Last of three talks by Stuart Hampshire , Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford

Scene 1: An underground vault in the prison
Scene 2: The castle square

An appreciation of his writings by R. H. Ward
Originally broadcast on March 13 at the time of Mr. Blackwood's eightieth birthday.

Sonata played by Winifred Copperwheat (viola)
Margaret Kitchin (piano)