Short story by Guy de Maupassant
Reader, Wilfred Babbage

Jean Pougnet (violin)
Anthony Pini (cello) James Gibb (piano)
(first broadcast performance)
(The duo by Kodaly is recorded)

John Steegman speaks about the work of Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake and Lord Lindsay, and of English taste in Italian art during the first part of Queen Victoria's reign
First of a series of talks on English and French writings on the fine arts of the nineteenth century
See also tonight at 10.5

Quintet in A, Op. 114
(The Trout) played by the Robert Masters Piano Quartet:
Robert Masters (violin) Nannie Jamieson (viola)
Muriel Taylor (cello)
Kinloch Anderson (piano)
J. Edward Merrett (double-bass) followed by an interlude at 8.15

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill
1-The Prologue
Read by Cecil Trouncer
Production by Stephen Potter

'Prince of Poets' (1524-1585)
Music and the Pleaide
Settings of Poems by Ronsard and his Circle
Speaker, Merlin Thomas
Camilla Castelli (soprano)
Betty Bannerman
(mezzo-soprano)
Rene Soames (tenor)
Desmond Duprei (guitar)
Geraint Jones (harpsichord)
London Chamber Singers London Chamber Players Devised .and conducted by Anthony Bernard
First of three programmes

.A selection of passages from their writings
Read by Lockwood West and Mary O'Farrell
Introduced by John Steegman
followed by an interlude at 10.25

Quartet No. 6
(L'arca di Noe) played by the Marjorie Hayward String Quartet

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Read by Rachel Gurney
Production by Frank Hauser

Piano Sonata in B flat
(K.570) played by Artur Schnabel on gramophone records