John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
The Renaissance Singers
Conductor, Michael Howard
Ralph Downes (organ)

by Edward Gibbon
A programme of readings from the sixty-eighth chapter of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, to commemorate the quincentenary of the fall of Byzantium, May 29. 1453
(The recorded broadcast of May 28)

The Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble:
Edward Walker (flute)
Roger Lord (oboe)
Lionel Bentley (violin)
Gwynne Edwards (viola) Willem de Mont (cello)

Edward Sackvllle-West talks about the correspondence between Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal , recently published in Switzerland

Irmgard Seefried (soprano)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
(baritone)
Edinburgh Royal Choral Union
(Chorus-Master, Herrick Bunney )
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Bruno Walter
From the Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Part 1
Tragic Overture
S.18 app. Variations on the St.
Anthony Chorale

Talk by Philip Hope-Wallace

Part 2
A GERMAN REQUIEM
Also being broadcast in the Scottish Home Service from 9.15 approximately

by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Constance Garnett
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Adaptation and production by Mary Hope Allen

Sonata No. 5 in E minor Sonata No. 6 In E played by Julius Baker (flute)
Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord) on gramophone records

Talk by Charles Fisher
Lecturer in Geography at University College. Leicester, and lately Senior Research Officer a.t the Institute of Colonial Studies. Oxford
The speaker was a prisoner-of-war in the Far East for three and a half years after the fall of Singapore, in the company of a number of British and Dutch colonial administrators. As a result, his interest was around in Indonesia and in this talk he comments on contemporary problems in that country in the light of his further study of the Dutch colonial tradit:on. (The recorded broadcast of July 11)

Twelve Mazurkas
A flat. Op. 50 No. 2: F sharp minor. Op. 6 No. 1; B minor. Op. 30 No. 2; G, Op. 50 No. 1; A minor, Op. 67 No. 4: C. Op. 56 No. 2; F minor, Op. 63 No. 2; B fiat minor. Op. 24; G sharp minor. Op. 33 No. 1; C sharp minor. Op. 41 No. 1: F sharp minor. Op. 59 No. 3; C sharp minor. Op. 63 No. 3 played by Julius Isserlis (piano)