Music drama in three acts by Wagner
Cast in order of singing:
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
(Leader. Joseph Shadwick )
Conductor. Karl Rankl
From the Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
Act 1
A cave in a forest

Talk by E. H. Linfoot, sc.D., John Couch Adams Astronomer in the University of Cambridge Interest has been aroused among astronomers by the construction of a new type of telescope at the St. Andrews University Observatory under the direction of Dr. Finlay-Freundlich. In this talk Dr. Linfoot, who has been responsible for the designs, describes the telescope and explains some of the difficulties that must be overcome in the design and construction of such an instrument. The new telescope, the first of its kind to be put into use, is now installed in the Mills Observatory, Dundee.

Act 2
The depths of the forest

Talk by Roy Fuller
Tennyson referred to Maud as his little Hamlet.' Roy Fuller speaks about the historical background to the poem.
First of two talks

Act 3
Scene 1: A wild region at the foot of a mountain
Scene 2: The summit of the Valkyries' Rock

The best benefits that Sariel could shower upon the bare stones of Aran would be a few showers of clay
The story of a journey made to the Aran Islands
Written and produced by W. R. Rodgers
Narrator, Duncan McIntyre with Sean Concannon , John Horan and Margaret O'Flynn of the Galway Gaelic Theatre

Quartet in E flat
Op. 125 played by the Barylli String Quartet:
Walter Barylli (violin)
Wolfgang Poduschka (violin)
Alfons Gruenberg (viola)
Hans Czegka (cello)