National Food by Alan Pryce-Jones
Second of three talks
Harold Nicolson on The Importance of Being Greedy: September 17

Quartet in G, Op. 161 played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin)
Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

Herbert Read talks about
Michael Roberts , whose posthumous book ' The Estate of Man' has been published recently

A mystery without a solution by R. H. Ward
Isn't this desire for change an unresting anxiety which will pursue me wherever I go? ' '— ' Werther ' (Goethe)
Produced by Owen Reed in the BBC's West of England studios

Opera in three acts and an epilogue
A fable by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman
Music by Stravinsky
Servants, whores, roaring boys, citizens, madmen
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
(Chorus-Master, Vittorio Veneziano )
Conducted by Igor Stravinsky
Producer. Carl Ebert
Deryck Cooke writes on page 11
Act 1
Sc. 1: The garden of Trulove's country cottage. Spring afternoon
Sc.2: Mother Goose 's, a London brothel. Summer
Sc. 3: The garden of Trulove's cottage. Autumn night
Interval
Act 2
Sc. 1: Morning-room of Rakewell's house irr London. Autumn morning
Sc. 2: The street before Rakewell's house. Autumn dusk
Sc. 3: Morning-room of Rakewell's house. Winter morning
Interval
Act 3
Sc. 1: Morning room of Rakewell's house. Spring afternoon
Sc. 2: A churchyard. The same night Sc. 3: Bediam
Epilogue
From La Fenice Opera House, Venice
As we go to press the starting times and duration of the intervals are not known. If time allows, the following programmes will be broadcast:
During the first interval:
A Fire, a Flood and the Price of Meat
A talk by Henry Green about some not unusual experiences that set him wondering why people read novels
(The recorded broadcast of August 6)
During the second interval:
' On the Eve ': Venice
A reading by Natalie Moya of 4 chapter from the novel by TurgeneT. (Translation by Gilbert Gardiner )