Octet in F, Op. 166 played by the Vienna Octet:
Willi Boskovsky (violin) Philipp Matheis (viol,in) Gunther Breitenbach (viola)
Emanuel Brabeg (cello)
Johan Krump (double-bass) Alfred Boskovsky (clarinet)
Rudolf Hanzl (bassoon)
Josef Veleiba (horn)
This programme was recorded during the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra's visit to this country to Cake pant in the 1953 Edinburgh Festival. A recording of Mozart's Divertimento in D (K.334), played by the Octet, will be broadcast in the Third Programme on December 31.

reads ' The Riddle,' a story he wrote many years ago
He prefaces the reading with his poem ' England ' and concludes with ' The Little Salamander '

Isaac Stern (violin) Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Manoug Parikian)
Conducted by Igor Markevitch
Part 1

Talk by Gordon Craig

Part 2

A musical entertainment for solo Dong, chorus, and orchestra
Verses by Edward Lear
Music by Max Saunders with an orchestra and chorus conducted by the composer
Production by Douglas Cleiverdon

by Herman Melville
Adapted for broadcasting by Preston Lockwood with Catherine Fleming
Harry Hutchinson , Sulwen Morgan
Mary O'Farrell , Hilda Schroder
Produced by Leslie Stokes

The Wigmore Ensemble:
Geoffrey Gilbert (tiute)
Terence MacDonagh (oboe)
Jack Brymer (clarinet)
Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)
Dennis Brain (horn)
Jean Pougnet (violin) Thomas Carter (violin)
Frederick Riddle (viola)
William Pleeth (cello)
Marie Korchinska (harp)