The Virtuoso Wind Quintet:
Edward Walker (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
Paul Draper (bassoon)
John Burden (horn)

Talk by G. F. Mitchell Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin At the bottom of many of the bogs of the British Isles a layer of clay can be found containing fossit remains of plants suited to colder climates. The speaker, who has studied these plant fossils and has visited the tundra of Lapland where many of the plants are growing today, describes what the British Isles must have looked like when they were covered by tundra. followed by an interlude at 6.50

Opera in three acts
Text by Pushkin
French translation by R. and M. d'Harcourt
Music by Dargomizhsky
Characters in the opera:
(The names of the singers will be announced at the microphone)
Don Juan
Leporello. his servant Donna Anna Don Carlos
Laura, an actress A monk
Two guests
The statue of the Commendatore
Chorus and Symphony Orchestra of Radiodiffusion Française
Conducted by Roger Desormiere
Act 1
Scene 1: The courtyard of a monastery near Madrid
Scene 2: Laura's dining-room
Act 2
A graveyard, with the statue of the Commendatore
Act 3
A room in Donna Anna 's house
From Paris . See Music Diary
There will be a ten-minute interval during the broadcast of the opera followed by an interlude at 8.40

Party Politics and Foreign Policy by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber

Alvar Lidell (baritone)
Josephine Lee (accompanist)
Macgibbon String Quartet:
Margot Macgibbon (violin)
Ruth Fourmy (violin) Muriel Tookey (viola)
Lilly Phillips (cello)
Eleventh of a series of programmes of quartets by Haydn and songs by Schubert.

Selected poems
Arranged and produced by Terence Tiller
Readers: Oliver Burt , Olive Gregg
Derek Hart. Joan Painter

An illustrated talk by Max Rostal on the little-known history of music for unaccompanied violin from Hemrich von Biber to Bela Bartok (excluding that of Bach)

Ballade Le petit negre
Images (Book 2):
Cloches a travers les feuillee Et la lune descend ... Poissons d'or played by Frank Laffitte (piano)

Twenty-eighth of a series of reports on the Soviet point of view as expressed in the Soviet Press and broadcasts directed to the U.S.S.R.