('The Seraglio')
An opera in three acts
Words by Bretzner
Music by Mozart
(sung in the original Gertnan)
Cast in order of singing:
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, David McCallum )
CONDUCTED BY ALFRED WALLENSTEIN
Produced by Carl Ebert
The action of the opera takes place on the coast of Turkey.
Act 1
Outside the Pasha Selim's palace
Ernest Bradbury writes on page 19

Readings from contemporary West Indian poetry, arranged and introduced by Henry Swanzy

Concerto d'Eté (Jonquin Rodrigo ): played bv Chrisitian Ferras (violin) and the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, conducted by Georges Enesco
Trittico Botticelliano: La Primavera.
L'Adorazione dei Magi. La Nascita di Venere (Respighi): played by the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Franz Litschauer on gramophone records

Talk by Robert McKenzie
The study of British politics, Mr. McKenzie suggests, has been too little concerned with what happens outside Parliament, so that a whole area of political activity is left virtually unexplored. The speaker, who is a Lecturer at the London School of Economics, points to the value in this connection of such empirical studies as The Party System in Great Britain by Ivor Bulmer-Thomas and David Butler's The Electoral System in Great Britain, both published recently.

Followed by an interlude at 7.45

Act 2
The garden of the palace harem
9.0 Interval
9.10 Act 3
A terrace outside the harem, overlooking the sea

by Herman Melville
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Leslie Stokes with Preston Lockwood as Bartleby and other parts played by Harry Hutchinson , Eric Jones
Alan Keith. Charles Richardson and Norman Shelley
(The recorded broadcast of March 20)

Ida Presti (guitar)
The Wigmore Ensemble