(piano) on gramophone records

Talk by Honor Croome

A new version with English words by Edward Dent prepared and directed by John Lowe
BBC Midland Singers withnarration, written and spoken by Alvar Lidell

by Basil Taylor
A talk on Painting in Britain—1530 to 1790, by Professor Ellis Waterhouse, one of the first two volumes to be published in a new History of Art The speaker comments on the publication of a history of art such as this in England and examines the contribution of this particular book to the development of the study of English art during the last fifteen to twenty years, a study made possible by the new interest in art history in this country.

A tragic opera in one act
Words and music by Ernst Krenek
(sung In German)
Orchestra of Nord westdeutscher Rundtfunk,
Hamburg
Conducted by Hermanm Spitz
The action takes place in Montreux in the 1920s
Scene 1: A high terrace with a view over the lake of Geneva
Scene 2: The Dictator's study in the hotel

Talk by T. S. Eliot, O.M.
This talk was first given in September 1951 in connection with the broadcasts of Vergil's Aeneid in the translation by C. Day Lewis. These programmes arc now being repeated.

A comedy by Ivan Turgenev
Translatedand adapted for broadcasting by Vera Larina with Michael Gough and Banbara Jefford
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham
Scene: The morning-room of Mme. Libanova's country house in Russia in the middle of the 19th century The sweetest wine makes the sharpest vinegar (original title, Where it is thin-there it tears) was written in 1847.... It is not, of course, major Turgenev, but it is certainly a most charming play, slight and delicate as a lace handkerchief, scented with the fragrance of a morning-gathered ros—a rose with the dew still on it, like the one picked by the heroine in the play. In. plot, characters, and atmosphere it is typical Turgenev, with a wonderful lyrical quality, subtle humour, and aU the other many attributes which make him both so difficult and so interesting to his interpreters. Vera Larina

Suite No. 2, in D minor for unaccompanied cello
Prelude: Allemande; Courante;
Saraband; Minuet 1 and 2; Jig played by Andr6 Navarra

Behaviour and language in a single species: by Eric Simms
During the spring and summer of 1952 Eric Simms, with the help of a BBC mobile recording unit, made what he believes to be the first complete recording of (he life-cycle of a single species of bird. In this talk Mr. Simms uses these recordings to describe and illustrate the language and behaviour of the stone-curlew.