in a seventeenth-century English translation by J. Rutter established and completed by Merlin Thomas
Cast in order of speaking:
Incidental music from
Music for Brass Instruments by Giovanni Gabrieli
Production by E. A. Harding The action takes place in Seville
Recorded excerpts in French from the Theatre National Populaire production, directed by Jean Vilar , with Gerard Philipe as Don Rodrigue , will be broadcast on Wednesday at 7.30. Merlin Thomas writes about Le Cid in this issue.
During the interval (7.5-7.15 app.):
Lully
Orchestral music from his operas
- on gramophone, records

Violin Concerto in E
Cantata No. 21: Ich hatte viel
Bektimmernis
Frederick Grinke (violin)
Arda Mandikian (soprano)
Janet Fraser (contralto)
John Kentish (tenor)
Richard Standen (bass)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Continuo:
Charles Spinks (harpsichord) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
Conducted by Walter Goehr
Bach's Church Cantata No. 21 was written at Weimar in 1714, for use on the Third Sunday after Trinity. It is in two parts, the first of which contains the well-known soprano aria ' Seufzer, Thranen, Kummer, Noth.'
Another programme of Bach's music, including a cantata, will be broadcast on December 9.

for Advent Sunday
Conducted by Canon E. S. Abbott ,
Dean of King's College, London with a choir of students of King's College directed by the Rev. H. W. Last
When came in flesh the incarnate
Word (E.H. 13)
The Advent Collect
Reading: St. Luke 5. w. 1-11 Psalm 97
Reading: Revelation 22. w. 6-21
0 come, 0 come Immanuel (E.H. 8) Meditation
Motet: Hosanna to the Son of David
(Weelkes)
Chorale Prelude on Wachet auf
(Bach)
From the Chapel of / King's College, London

by Jack Loudan
The Rev. Patrick Bronte was born in County Down. In this talk Jack Loudan speaks of rhe Ulster background of the family and its influence on rhe writing of Patrick Bronte 's children.
(Revised version of the talk originally broadcast in the Northern Ireland Home Service)

String Quartet in E flat. Op. 127 played by the Busch Quartet:
Adolf Busch (violin)
Gbsta Andreasson (violin)
Karl Doktor (viola)
Hermann Busch (cello) on gramophone records
Quartet, Op. 131: Wednesday at 10.30

Some Consequences of Thermodynamics
Second of three talks by A. R. Ubbelohde, F.R.S.

in the 18th and 19th centuries
Pierre Bernac (baritone) Dorel Handman (piano)
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 29)