Willem de Mont (cello)
The Francis Chagrin Ensemble
Director,Francis Chagrin

Talk by Francis Watson

of the 17th and 18th centuries
Peter Pears (tenor)
George Malcolm (piano)
Ftawia
First of four programmes of 17th- and 18thcentury songs, devised by Basil Douglas

Part 1

William Primrose (viola)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1

Talk by Arthur Hazlewood
Tutor in Economics at the Oxford University Institute of Colonial Studies
The speaker examines some current preconceptions about the ' backward ' countries and some of tihe economic aspects of the ' encounter ' between these countries and the West. He believes that it is the effects of this encounter which lie at the root of the economic problems in under-developed countries.

Part 2

Illustrated talk by Dennis Arundell
Dennis Arundell 's English version of Prokofiev's opera is to be broadcast tomorrow evening in the Third Programme

by Moliere
(performed in French)
Cast in order of speaking:
Adaptation for radio and production by J. Weltman
(The play was recorded in the UNESCO studio in Paris: previously broadcast on March 9)
Les Précieuses Ridicules was Molière's first Paris success. lit is still one of his funniest plays, a social satire which retains much of its topicality after nearly three hundred yeans.

Novelletten, Op. 21
Nos. 1. 2, 3, and 4 played by Edith Vogel (piano)