An opera in three acts aung in the original French of M. Bailli du Roullet
Music by Gluck
Leaders of the Chorus:
Rita McKerrow. Barbara Delano Laing Alkins and James Alkins
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leo Quayle )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
CONDUCTED BY VITTORIO Gui
Producer, Carl Ebert.
Chief coach, Jani Strasser
Aot 1
Sc. 1: A courtyard before the palace at Pherae Sc. 2: The temple of Apollo

Four talks by George Rylands
3-Simplicity

Musica da Camera:
Harold Clarke (flute) Wilfred Smith (flute)
Robert Cattermole (oboe)
Sidney Fell (clarinet)
Charles Gregory (horn)
Archie Camden
Vera Kantrovitch (violin)
Hubert Dawkes (piano)

Talk by Ronald Robinson, Ph.D.
Fellow of St. John's College. Cambridge Dr. Robinson suggests that our understanding of the nature of national expansion has for too long been anchored to John Seeley's thesis in The Expansion of England — in its own day ' a great leap of historical imagination.' By drawing a distinction between formal and informal expansion, however, new light is thrown on the subject, and the speaker develops the idea of informal empire recently explored by Professor Vincent Harlow in his book The Founding of the Second British Empire.

Act 2
A hall in the palace
8.55 Interval
9.5 Act 3
Sc. 1: A courtyard in rhe palace Sc. 2: The entrance to Hades

A jig-saw portrait made up of recollections and reflections
Taken from the recorded conversations of playwrights, players, playgoers, and directors, including:
Ernest Blythe , St. John Ervine
St. John Gogarty, Lennox Robinson
Robert Farren. Frank O'Connor
Brinsley MacNamara , Denis Johnston
Cyril Cusack. Seumas O'Sullivan
Brian Nolan , Michael MacLiammoir
Peter Kavanagh. Donagh MacDonegh
George Roberts , Sean O'Faolain
Austin Clarke. Val Iremonger Roger McHugh. Mervyn Wall
Sean O'Conchubhair , Dr. John Larchet Shetah Richards. Cathal O'Shannon
Pearse Beasley , Gabriel Fallon
Tommy Lennon,. Seumas Kavanagh
Tony Quinn. Harry Hutchinson
Sean MacReamoinn , Thomas Studeley
Harry Brogan , William O'Gorman
Put together and narrated by W. R. Rodgers
Produced by Maurice Brown
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 11)

Sonata in B minor played by Cyril Preedy (piano)