A sacred festival drama in three acts by Wagner and Chorus and Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival
Conducted by Haras Knappertsbusch
From Bayreuth.
William Mann writes in this issue
Act 1
In the Grail's domain
The hall of the Grail castle.

by John Hooper
Although an extensive study has been made of birds, little is known in Britain about the ecology of bats. Since the autumn of 1948 members of the Devon Spelaeological Society have ringed more than a thousand .ats. John Hooper , who has been playing a prominent part in this work, describes some of the results.

Written for broadcasting by Herbert Read
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall with Oliver Burt. J. Hubert Leslie and Dorothy Smith
The author recently moved his home to a part of the North Riding of Yorkshire near where he had spent his childhood. This programme presents something of the imaginative side of that return.

Act 2
Klingsor's enchanted castle and garden

A talk by A. S. B. Olver , who has recently visited Siam

(piano)
(Gramophone records of a reproduction on a mechanical piano from rolls made by Busoni)

An account of the actor's retirement from the stage in 1851 Compiled from his Diaries and other contemporary sources by Leslie Stokes

Act 3
In the Grall's domain
The hall of the Grail castle
' Die Meistersinger ' from Bayreuth: next Sunday at 4.0 p.m.

Talk by Patrick Kavanagh
The speaker, himself an Irishman, claims that the only Irish writers who show any authentic quality are those who are true to themselves and do not regard ' Irishness as a commodity to be exported to England. Amongst these he rates highly William Carleton , the nineteenth-century Irish novelist, author of ' Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry.'

Solomon (piano)
Fantasy in F minor, Op. 49
Waltz in A flat, Op 42
Nocturne in F sharp, Op. 15 No. 2
Scherzo in B flat minor, Op 31
Impromptu in F sharp, Op 36
Polonaise in A flat, Op. 53

Talk by Steven Runciman