Sir George Sansom reviews a recent book by C. P. FitzGerald

played by Charles Spinks

Second of two talks by Frank Walker on letters from and to Verdi
Extracts from the letters read by Godfrey Kenton
Frank Walker draws on the correspondence between Verdi and Arrigo Boito , the composer's last librettist, published in 1942 in the biography of Boito by Piero Nardi.

A verse play for radio
Written and produced by Terence Tiller
The music composed by Anthony Smith-Masters The orchestra conducted by Patrick Savill
The Tower of Hunger (La Torre della. Fame) was the prison where Count Ugolino, former overlord of Pisa, died with his sons and grandsons in March 1289.

for soprano solo, chorus, and orchestra
Words selected from the poems of John Keats read by Fay Compton
Elsie Morison (soprano)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Prelude: Invocation to Pan Song and Bacchanal
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Scherzo: Fancy-Folly's Song Finale

Criminal Law
Talk by D. R. Seaborne Davies
Professor of Law in the University of Liverpool

by Edmund Spenser
Programme 4:
'The Bower of Bliss'
(Being Canto 8, stanzas 1-9 and Canto 12 of Book 2)
Produced by Louis MacNeice

String Quartet in F (K.590)
Allegro; Allegretto; Menuetto; Allegro played by the New Italian Quartet:
Paolo Borciani (violin) Elisa Pegrefn (violin) Piero Farulli (viola) Franco Rossi (cello)

Two talks on the history of nrt
I-Reflections on not Teaching Art History by Nikolaus Pevsner