or Love in the Stocks '
A romantic ballad opera in two acts
Words by Harold Child
Music by Vaughan Williams
Villagers, pedlars, soldiers
BBC Opera Chorus
BBC Opera Orchestra (Led by John Sharpe )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson
Presented by Mark Lubbock Narrator. Patrick Troughton
Repetiteur: Leo Wurmser
Scene: A small town in the Cotswolds in the early nineteenth century *
Act 1
A fair in an open field near the town. Morning. April 30

Victor Cavendish-Bentinck , who has recently returned from a visit to Western Germany, talks about the significance of the activities of the German Right-wing parties

Act 2
The market place in the town. Early Tuesday morning, May 1
Another performance: March 13

A study of the last years of the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi
Written for broadcasting by Henry Reed
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
(Continued in next column)
The voices of childhood:
Ysanne Churchman , Joan Hart. Carleton Hobbs , David Markham. Marjorie Westbury , and Gladys Young
Actors, intellectuals, residents of Florence and of Naples: Roger Delgado , Alastair Duncan. Hamilton Dyce , Stanley Groome , Molly Lawson , Joan Matheson , John Turnbuil , Margaret Vines , and Richard Williams
Band music composed and directed by John Hotchkis
Children's song by Antony Hopkins
Time: 1832-37
Scene: Florence and Naples

Quintet in C minor (K.516) played by the Griller String Quartet:
Sidney Griller (violin) Jack O'Brien (violin) Philip Burton (viola) Colin Hampton (cello) Max Gilbert (viola)

Lecture by Jacques Maritain