by Professor J. Hromadka
Dean of the Faculty of Theology at Prague University

by Herman Melville

Regina d'Inghilterra'
(' Elizabeth, Queen of England ')
An opera in two acts
Libretto by Giovanni Schmidt based on Sophia Lee 's novel
' The Recess'
Music by Rossini
(sung in Italian)
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Milan
(Chorus-Master, Roberto Benaglio )
CONDUCTOR, ALFREDO SlMONETTO
Act 1
In the Palace of Whitehall, about 1565

Talk by Honor Tracy
A new selection of Edward Lear 's
Nonsense Verse, Teapots and Quails, was published recently. In this talk Honor Tracy considers the possibilities of Edward Lear as ' a wonderfully runcible husband.'

Regina d'lnghilterra
Act 2
Scene 1: A room in the Palace
Scene 2: In (the Duke of Norfolk's house
Scene 3: A dungeon in the Tower
(This performance was specially recorded in Italy for the Third Programme by Radio Italiana : originally broadcast on June 1)

Six programmes devised by Professor Eduardo M. Torner
Scripts translated and read by John Gavall
The illustrations selected from recordings made by Alan Lomax
6-Andalucia

Illustrated talk by Sir Charles Tennyson
The voice of Alfred Lord Tennyson reading his own poetry was recorded on wax cylinders in 1890. In this programme the poet's grandson introduces fragments of the surviving recordings. Listeners will be able to follow the voice belter if they have in front of them the text of the following verse: sections 1, 2, and 3 of ' The Charge of the Heavy Brigade'; Stanzas 5 and 6 of 'The Northern Farmer (New Style) '; the dosing stanza of ' Come into the garden, Maud '; and ' The Charge of the Light Brigade.'

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Clemens Krauss on gramophone records

Three talks by Count Benckendorff
- about the 1920s in Soviet Russia
. 3-The Famine Committee
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 2) t