Thomas -Carlyle, after a visit to the Haymarket, laments upon the state of opera in this country
Reader, John Laurie

Margaret Rawlings reads passages from the poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Use Wolf (soprano)
Frederick Stone (accompanist)
The New London Quartet:
Erich Gruenberg (violin)
Lionel Bentlev (violin) Keith Cummings (viola) Douglas Cameron (cello)

of the year
The sixth of seven nightly broadcasts in the course of which the news of 1851 is reviewed

2 — 'Street-Sellers, Street-Finders and Street-Performers
Compiled by Douglas Cleverdon and Laurence Kitchin from the conversations recorded by Henry Mayhew

Excerpts from
Mendelssohn's
' Son and Stranger '
(first London performance at the Little Haymarket Theatre on July 7, 1851)
Gounod's ' Sapho '
(first London performance at Covent Garden on August 9. 1851)
Verdi's ' Ernani'
(first London performance in English at the Surrey Theatre on November 1, 1851)
SON AND STRANGER (MENDELSSOHN)
Overture
Air: I am a roamer
SAPHO(GOUNOD)
Closing Scene of Act 2:
Adieu, patrie
Chanson du pâtre
O ma lyre immortelle
(Continued in next column)
ERNANI (VERDI) from Act 1:
Prelude and Introduction
Recit. and Cavatina: Ernani Recit. and Cavatina: Eivira from Act 3:
The Conspiracy Scene
Singers:
Victoria Sladen (soprano)
Janet Howe (mezzo-soprano)
Ronald Hill (tenor)
Alexander Young (tenor) Roderick Jones (baritone)
George James (bass)
BBC Opera Chorus
(Trained by Alan G. Melville ) with the BBC Opera Orchestra (Leader. John Sharpe )
Conductor, Stanford Robinson

Ten minutes of songs and stories for little people under five, designed to entertain and instruct the infant mind followed by WOMAN'S HOUR
A pot-pourri for the edification and instruction of ladies at home
Including notices of the new Bloomer costume, replies to correspondents, comment on newly published works, and the latest instalment of a serial story by Mrs. Trollope

A Romance of Real Life by John Maddison Morton

Summary of a debate in the House of Commons in April 1851 upon the motion for reducing Colonial expenditure and for giving to the Colonies ample powers for their local self-government. Of this debate the Prime Minister. Lord John Russell , said that the question was in fact 'whether the tendency of our policy shall be towards the maintenance or the dissolution of the Empire '
Reader, Alvar Lidell

played by Tomford Harris