(' Les Monstres Sacres')
A comedy by Jean Cocteau
Translated and adapted for radio by Peter Watts
The action takes place in Esther's dressing-room and in the famous ' Red Room ' of her and Florent's country house at Chatou
Produced by Peter Watts

Sonata in G, Op. 49 No. 2
Sonata in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 played by Claudio Arrau (piano)
Thirteenth of sixteen recitals during which Claudio Arrau is playing all Beethoven's piano sonatas and the Diabelli Variations

Graham Hough considers the author of ' The Way of All Flesh ' against the background of his time
Second of four talks

Archie Camden (bassoon)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra
(Leader, Maurice Clare )
Conductor, Boyd Neel

NORMAN CAMERON
Introduced by the author and read by Anthony Jacobs

Crucifixum in carne laudate
The Ambrosian Singers
Programme introduced by Dom Anselm Hughes , O.S.B.
Third of a series of four programmes
This programme traces the way in which one particular plainsong melody served over a period of four centuries as a basis for harmonised music. The melody chosen is Crucifixum in carne laudate, an antiphonal verse sung at Mass on Easter Sunday. The first setting comes from Chartres, where some of the earliest two-part organa are preserved; the second, from a manuscript in Karlsruhe, where florid descants seem to have been much in favour. The Parisian school provides a three-part version for voices and instruments, and this is followed by a motet setting of English provenance (only treble and bass survive, the middle part having been devoured by rats). The last setting is a three-part one taken from a recently discovered MS of the Chapel Royal. D. S.

A monthly review of cultural and political trends in the U.S.S.R.
A Visit to Moscow, April 1952 by A. K. Cairncross
The speaker, who is Professor of Applied Economics in the University of Glasgow, attended the economic conference held in Moscow in April.
(The recorded broadcast of May 21)
Next talk: June 26

Serenade in C, Op. 10: played by Jascha Heifetz (violin), William Primrose (viola), Emanuel Feuer mann (cello)
Quartet in D flat, Op. 15: played by the Flonzaley Quartet on gramophone records