A play by Lillian Hellman from the French of Emmanuel Robles
Adapted for radio by Peter Watts with Arthur Lawrence , Wyndham Milligan and Michael O'Halloran
Produced by Peter Watts
In Monlserrat the young Algerian dramatist Emmanuel Roblès forces his hero to choose between betraying Simon Bolivar (whom he idolises, and who is the last hope of liberation for all Spanish America) and causing the deaths of six innocent townsmen.
The scene is set in an ante-room in the palace of the Military Governor in the town of Valencia, Venezuela, in July 1812.

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader,Paul Beard )
Conducted by Fernando Previtali
Part 1

Talk by Terence Prittie
Manchester Guardian correspondent in Germany

Part 2

Six talks by William Empson
2-Macbeth and his Wife
In these talks Mr. Empson discusses some problems of character and action in Macbeth, Hamlet, and Falstaff.

Manoug Parikian (violin)
George Malcolm (piano)
Nancy Evans (mezzo-soprano)
Max Gilbert (viola)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)

(died January 14, 1753) Talk by G. J. Warnock
Fellow of Magdalen College. Oxford

Prelude and Fugue in F minor (Book
2)
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D minor played by Valda Aveling (clavichord)