General editor, Gerald Abraham
65-Rococo Church Music
Editor, Anthony Lewis
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano)
Rene Soames (tenor)
Scott Joynt (bass)
BBC Chorus
Charles Spinks (organ)
The Goldsbrough Orchestra (Leader. Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate
Introduced by Alec Robertson
Including music by Arne. C. P. E. Bach, Haydn, and Mozart

by Franz Kafka
(Abridged from the translation by Wllla and Edwin Muir )
Read by Leonard Sachs
Though Kafka later used this study in the imperfections of human action as the first chapter in the novel he called America, it made its first appearance as a story in 1913, some fourteen or fifteen years before the longer work was published.

Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 played by the Barylll String Quartet:
Walter Barylli (violin)
Wolfgang Poduschka (violin)
Alfons Gruenberg (viola)
Hans Czegka (cello)

H. R. Trevor-Roper reviews the recent book ' Recollections of Logan Pearsall Smith ' by Robert Gathome-Hardy

A play
Adapted for broadcasting by John Keir Cross with Robert Harris as Richard Rowan , a writer
Produced by Donald McWhinnie
Scene: At Merrion and Ranelagh, suburbs of Dublin. Summer 1912

Paul Tortelier (cello)
New London Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Hirsch)
Conducted by Walter Goehr
During the years 1924-30 Hindemith wrote six concertos for chamber orchestra, with solo parts for piano, cello. violin, viola, viola d'amore, and organ respectively. Opus
'36 No. 2, for cello and ten instruments, belongs to the year 1925. It consists of four movements, and the orchestra is made up of one each of the following instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone. violin, cello, and double-bass.
Ravel's Mother Goose Suite opens with an ethereal Pavane of the Sleeping Beauty.1 Then come 'Hop o' try Thumb' and 'Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas' (the Pagodas being strange little creatures who sing and play upon instruments made of nutshells and almond husks). In 'The Conversation between Beauty and the Beast,' Beauty consents to marry the Beast (many men are worse monsters, she says) and he is suddenly transformed into a handsome prince who thanks her for breaking the spell of his enchantment. In 'The Fairy Garden,' which ends the Suite, Prince Charming finds the Princess asleep; as the sun rises, she awakens; a fanfare is played as the other characters reappear, and a fairy enters and blesses them all.
(Harold Rutland)

Talk by J. E. Neale
The reign of Queen Elizabeth was a crucial period in parliamentary history.
J...E. Neale , Professor of History at London University, describes some aspects of the Elizabethan House of Commons and shows how much we owe to the developments of those days.

Martin Boddey (tenor) Hervey Alan (baritone) with Clifton Helliwell (piano)
The Countryman The Fox
Autumn Twilight
Chopcherry; Along the Stream
The Jolly Shepherd; My Own Country Consider; Spring
Late Summer: The Toper's Song