A satirical story by Angus Wilson

Sonata, Op. 59 played by Henriette Canter (violin)
Frank Laffitte (piano)
Vincent d'Indy, the centenary of whose birth falls on March 27, was the chief disciple of Cesar Franck. He was a man of the highest ideals, and he had great gifts as composer, teacher, and scholar. 'Clearness,' said Romain Rolland, is the distinguishing quality of d'lndy's mind: There are no shadows about him ... No one is more French in spirit.' His Violin Sonata, written in 1903-4, is largely designed on Franckian principles and based on three motives that recur in various guises in each of the four movements. H.R.

Talk by Sir Ronald Fraser, K.B.E., C.M.G.
Sir Ronald Fraser was engaged for some years as an official in Anglo-South Amencan affairs and took part in the negotiations at the first Roca-Runciman Agreement with Aigeniina in 1933. His most recent visit to Latin America was made in order to prepare a survey for the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

('Nabucodonosor')
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Temistocle Solera
Music by Verdi
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Rome
(Chorus-Master, Gaetana Riccitelli )
Conductor. Fernando Previtali
(Recording made available by courtesy of Radio Italiana, Rome)
The action takes place in Jerusalem and Babylonia in biblical times
Act 1
Inside the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem
Act 2
Scene 1: An apartment in the Palace
Scene 2: A hall in the Palace

The Legacy of the Twentiesby Noel Annan , Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
Last of a series of seven talks illustrating the achievements of the 1920s

Act 3
Scene 1: The Hanging Gardens
Scene 2: The banks of the Euphrates
Act 4
Scene 1: An apartment in the Palace Scene 2: The Hanging Gardens

A relation of the circumstances attending the publication of the letters of Alexander Pope

Quartet in F, Op. 59 No. 1 played by the Hungarian String Quartet

Martin Cooper introduces a few gramophone records of lighter music