(Leader. Reginald Stead)
Conductor, John Hopkins

by T. C. Worsley
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
The date is 1880. Turgenev hasreturned to Russia for the first product on of A Month in the Country. Behind hitn in France he leaves the woman who has dominated his life for more than thirty years—Madame Viardot, otherwise known as Pauline Garcia, an opera singer.

('Nebuchadnezzar')
Opera in four acts by Temistocle Solera
Music by Verdi
(sung in Italian)
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Rome
(Chorus-Master, Gaetano Riccitelli)
Conducted by Fernando Previtali
(on gramophone records)

Act 1: Jerusalem
Inside the Temple of Solomon
Act 2: The Blasphemy
In the palace

Dona Salmon talks about beasts, insects, and reptiles of a New Mexican summer

Act 3: The Prophecy
Sc 1: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon Sc. 2: The banks of the Euphrates
Act 4: The Broken Idol
Sc. 1: In the palace
Sc. 2: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

4—Tolerance in Contemporary America
Talk by Robert E. Cushman
Goldwin Smith Professor of Government in Cornell University, U.S.A. (The recorded broadcast of Aug. 1)
A series of seven talks

The Pasquier String Trio :
Jean Pasquier (vioBin) Pierre Pasquier (viola) Etienne Pasquier (cello) Ernest Lush (piano)