Sonata in A minor, Op. 42 played by Celia Arieli (piano)

A play in five acts by Gabriele d'Annunzio
Translation by Arthur Symons
Adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood
Production by Raymond Raikes
Frederick Allen introduces each act
Scene: In ' thirsty' Argos, near the ruins of Mycenae, ' rich in gold.'
This play is something more than a period-piece. D'Annunzio, that coudoltiere born some centuries too late for the Renaissance, has crammed his story with gold and blood (both words recur constantly throughout the play); birds die symbolically-though they are larks and falcons, not wild ducks; and the great evocative names of Mycenae, Agamemnon, and Cassandra are woven into a tapestry of thirst and dust and brooding heat, with a pulsating vigour that should be refreshing in these utility days. P.W.

Hans Heinz Schneefoerger (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1
This concerto was written two years ago, at the request of the Fondation ' Pro

Talk by Dr. Otto Dibelius ,
Bishop of Berlin
The Church in the Eastern Zone of Germany, which is predominantly Protestant, has in recent years had to face the challenge of a new religion, the religion of Communism. Dr. Dibelius (whose diocese includes Brandenburg, in the Eastern Zone) explains why he regards Communism as a religion and describes the way in which the Church in Eastern Germany is facing this challenge. He recorded the talk during a recent visit to this country.

Part 2

Talk by M. M. Mahood

The form Blake chose for his first, and perhaps his finest, attack on the rational morality of the Enlightenment was that of a children's book (Songs of Innocence and of Experience). He did this deliberately because books for children expose the adult outlook of their time so clearly, and because the Age of Reason was unbendingly rational in its attitude towards them. This programme places these poems of Blake in the context of contemporary writings for children by setting some of his Songs against passages from Newbery's Juvenile Library, the books of Lady Fenn, and the Divine Songs for Children of Isaac Watts (from one of which the title of this programme is taken).

Miss Mahood is a Fellow of St. Hugh's College, Oxford.
Readers: Mary O'Farrell and William Devlin

A New England fable: an opera piccola for two singers and four instrumentalists
Words and music by Gail Kubik with members of the London Symphony Orchestra Conducted by the composer Produced by Maurice Brown
(A second performance of the programme broadcast on Wednesday.) See Both Sides of the Microphone'

A discussion between
Austen Albu and Harold Wincott

Charles Panzera (baritone) with Magdeleine Panzera-Baillot (piano)
Automne, Op. 18 No. 3
Au cimetiere, Op. 51 No. 2 En sourdine. Op 58 No 2
L'horizon chimenique. Op. 118:
La mer est infinie; Je me suis embarque; Diane, Selene; Vaisseaux, nous vous aurons aimé on gramophone records