('Un Homme de Dieu ') by Gabriel Marcel
English version by Marjorie Gabain
Adaptation and production by E. J. King Bull

by Vivaldi
(sung In Latin)
(Continued in next column)
Continuo:
Clifton Helllwell (harpsichord)
Charles Spinks (organ)
James Whitehead (cello)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Conducted by Trevor Harvey Music transcribed and revised by Vito Frazzi
Part 1
Extracts from Vivaldi's oratorio 7uditha Triumphans were broadcast under the direction of Trevor Harvey on two occasions a year ago. Tonight and again on Tuesday the whole work is to be given for the first time in this country. The oratorio was written for performance in Venice in 1716 As edited by Vito Frazzi it was revived in Italy in 1941 and the score was published by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana.
The story (from the Apocrypha) tells how Judith, a beautiful widow of Bethulia, saves her city from the besieging Assyrian army by going over to the hostile camp and exercising her fascinations on Holofernes, the general. He gives a feast in her honour and afterwards invites her to remain within his tent. When he is asleep Judith seizes his sword and severs his head from his body. At the beginning of the oratorio the Assyrian army is lying outside the walls of Bethulia preparing to take the city. Harold Rutland

Conversation in the Twenties by V. S. Pritchett
Fifth of seven talks
This series is designed to recall the achievements of the 1920s which have been obscured to some extent by a reputation for frivolity. The .talks illustrate selected examples as they appear a quarter of a century later.

Part 2

Anthony Blunt talks about the contribution to contemporary painting of the ' Ecole de Paris, 1900-1950,
An exhibition with this title is now to be seen in London at Burlington House

Norman Walker (bass)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)
Seventh of a series of programmes of quartets by Haydn and songs bv Schubert.

A monthly review in which recent cultural and political trends in the U.S.S.R. are examined
Soviet Agriculture
Talk by Margaret Miller
Dr. Miller travelled in Russia and studied its economic system at the time of the first and second Five Ytar Plans.

Piano Sonata in G minor. Op. 23 played by Moiseiwitsch on gramophone records