' The Eve of St. Agnes
Reader, Alee Clunes
Production by Donald McWhinnie

General editor. Gerald Abraham
56-The Symphony. 1770-1790
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
John Wills (harpsichord)
Conducted by Trevor Harvey
Introduced by Alec Robertson
The programme includes music by Cannabich, Karl Stamitz. J. C Bach. C. P. E Bach. Dittersdorf. and Michael Haydn

The Celtic West by Nora Chadwick , of Cambridge Mrs. Chadwick was co-author of ' The Growth of Literature ' with her husband, the late Professor Chadwick. She has written extensively on the early history of these islands.

in three character pictures
(after Goethe) for tenor, men's chorus, orchestra
Faust;
Gretchen Mephistopheles and final chorus
Trefor Jones (tenor)
BBC Men's Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Constant Lambert

Adapted and produced by Douglas Cleverdon
Music transcribed by Archie Harradine from contemporary sources

In Nightmare Abbey, one of the gayest of nineteenth-century conversation pieces, several of Peacock's friends were portrayed - Shelley in the guise of the romantic young idealist Scythrop, Coleridge as the metaphysical Dr. Flosky. Shelley, in Italy, was delighted with the novel, and give the name of Scythrop's Tower to the tower in which he was working at Valsovano.
Part 1

Variations Serieuses, Op. 54 played by Alfred Cortot (piano) on gramophone records

Part 2

Sonata for flute, viola, and harp Sorata for cello and piano
Harp Trio of the Wigmore Ensemble: Geoffrey Gilbert (flute) Frederick Riddle (viola) Marie Korchinska (harp) William Pleeth (cello) Margaret Good (piano)