An opera in three acts by Richard Wagner
Covent Garden Opera Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Douglas Robinson)
Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
(Leader, Charles Taylor)
CONDUCTED BY CLEMENS KRAUSS
From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
(by arrangement with the Covent Garden Opera Trust)
Act 1
The interior of St. Katherine's church

Talk by Christopher Hill
Follow of Balliol College. Oxford
The Barebones Parliament, one of the many constitutional experiments of the Cromwellian period, sat for only five months from July 4 to December 12, 1653. Clarendon denounced its members as * pack of weak, senseless follows, fit only to bring the name and reputation of parliaments lower than it was,' and many historians since have regarded it with little more respect. Mr Hill challenges this general attitude. He regards the Barebones Parliament as ' the high point of a revolutionary movement ' and sees in the radical reforms proposed in the course of its session an attempt to stabilise the achievements of that ' revolution.'

Act 2
A street with the houses of Pogner and Sachs

Readings from contemporary West Indian poetry, arranged and introduced by Henry Swanzy
Readers:
Gloria Vaz , E, McG. Keane and George Lamming
(A revised version of the programme broadcast in the General Overseas Service on March 24)

Act 3
Scene 1: Sachs' workshop
Scene 2: An open meadow on the river
Pegnitz Ernest Bradbury writes on page 19

A New Fantasia of the Unconscious
Talk by Alan McGlashan
A suggested explanation in terms of mythology of the mysterious and world-wide appeal made by comic-strip characters such as Garth and Jane.
(The recorded broadcast of June 10)

String Quintet in C minor (K.406) played by the Budapest String Quartet with Milton Katims (viola) on gramophone records