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Professor Leslie Hotson
The speaker describes his discovery of the authorship of what he calls the most venomous personal libel in England's s history ' — the Elizabethan Leicester's Commonwealth.

Kreisleriana, Op. 16 played by Ilona Kabos (piano)

First of two programmes arranged and introduced by John Bryson
Readers- Ysanne Churchman
Robin Holmes , Gerik Schjelderup

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Bailli du Rollet
Music by Gluck
(Continued in next column)
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville
BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader. John Sharpe
Conducted by Roger Desormiere
Repetiteur, Leo Wurmser
Second of two performances
(Mildred Watson broadcasts by permission of the English Opera Group)
The action takes place at Aulis in ancient times
Act 1
The Greek camp

Talk by Geoffrey Hudson
One of the first foreigners to visit Britain was Pytheas, the Greek explorer, who probably sailed round Britain about 330 B.C. and afterwards sailed north to ' Thule.' Geoffrey Hudson reconstructs the story of the journey and gives his theories about Pytheas' voyage to Thule.

Act 2
The portico of Agamemnon's palace
Act 3
Scene 1: Interior of a large tent
Scene 2: An altar on the sea shore followed by an interlude at 10.20

Extracts from ' In a Japanese Garden ' and ' Insect Studies '
Read by Freda Gray
Heam, who was born in 1850, lived in Japan for the last fifteen years of his life. These extracts show his love and careful observation of the country and its natural life.

Octet in E flat, Op. 20 played by, the Whitehead String Ensemble:
Leonard Hirsch (violin) Kathleen Sturdy (violin)
Colin Sauer (violin) June Hardy (violin)
Stephen Shingles (viola)
Molly Panter (viola) Peter Beavan (cello)
James Whitehead (cello)

Last of three talks by Marcus Dick ,
Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford
(The recorded broadcast of May 27)

Sheherazade sung by Maggie Teyte (soprano) with the Royal Opera House Orchestra.
Covent Garden
Conducted by Hugo Rignold on gramophone records