Music drama in a prelude and three acts by Richard Wagner
Gibichung men and women
Orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival
Conducted by Joseph Kellberth
The action takes place in legendary times
Prelude
The Valkyries' Rock
Act 1
The Hall of the Gibichungs on the Rhine; The Valkyries' Rock
Two talks on the history of art, its development on the Continent. and its present status in England
I-Reflections on not Teaching Art History by Nikolaus Pevsner ,
Slade Professor of Fine Art,
Cambridge University
A sequence of poems in praise of the Fool by James Kirkup
Read by Siobhan McKenna and Julia Lang
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
The twelve lyrics that form this sequence come from James Kirkup's book, The Submerged Village.' They were inspired by a series of mural designs and are dedicated to the artist, Cecil Collins. They are closely linked in subject and style, but are of varying length.
Act 2
In front of the Hall of the Gibichungs
Contract Law
Talk by Glanville L. Williams Quain Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of London
Professor Glanville Williams discusses certain aspects of the present law of Contract and of Insurance under which there is still a serious possibility of injustice and lack of remedy.
Sixth of a series of seven talks
Act 3
A wooded place on the Rhine; The Hall of the Gibichungs
Talk by Daniel George
Some time ago the speaker was asked to identify a phoenix quotation. He describes a hunt made the more arduous by certain self-imposed rules-that it be conducted alone and that no use be made of a dictionary of quotations.