General editor, Gerald Abraham
35-Early Opera Buffa
Editor, Edward J. Dent
Gwen Catley (soprano)
Gladys Ripley (contralto)
John Wynton (tenor)
Martin Lawrence (bass)
Frederick Stone (harpsichord)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Conducted by Eric Warr
Introduced by Christopher Pemberton

by Geoffrey Chaucer
Arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill
4-The Man of Law's Tale
The Shipman, the Prioress, and Sir Thopaz: August 1

Opera in four acts by Bizet
Libretto by Meilhac and Halevy founded on the novel by Prosper Merimee
Cigarette girls, soldiers, street boys men and women of Seville
Chorus and Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera
Conducted by Pierre Monteux
The action takes place in and around Seville. Time: 1820
Act 1
A square in Seville

Talk by Geoffrey Hudson , Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
What pressure or kink of nature made Columbus insist-in the face of clear geographical evidence-that the lands he discovered were the Spice Islands of the Pacific, and why did he not claim the discovery of a new continent?

Act 2: Lilas Pastia's tavern

2-The Prospects of a Growth in Our Population by David Glass of the London School of Economics, who was a member of the Commission on Population
Mr. Glass explains some of the technical and demographic problems Involved in a consideration of the future of our population.

Act 3
The smugglers' mountain camp

Raymond Mortimer speaks about the author of ' Causeries de Lundi,' a series of weekly articles of which the first appeared a hundred years ago

Act 4
The square outside the bull ring