A novel by Ivy Compton -Burnett
Adapted for radio by Peter Mellors in collaboration with the author
Narration by Ivan Samson
The time is 1889; tlhe place, the neighbourhood of the Haslams' country house
Produotion by Christopher Sykes
3.45 aipp. Raman
Fernando Valenti (harpsichord)
Deux Rigaudons ; Musette en Rondeau; La Villageoise; Sarabande; Fanfarinette ; La Triomphante on gramophone records
4.0 app.-5.15 ' Men and Wives '
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by Ivy Compton-Burnett
(continued: see page U)

Opera semi-seria in a prologue and seven scenes
Libretto by Heinrich Strobel
Music by Rolf Liebermann
(sung in German and French)
Two elderly melody-lovers; an educated man; a young Massenet-fan; a soldier; a guest; the hostess; a waiter; a news-vendor; presidents of the tribunal: a judge; concert-goers; cafe proprietor and customers; prisoners: Parisian housewives; members of the tribunal: judges; ushers: voices from the loudspeaker
Chorus of the Basle State Theatre
Orchestra of Sudwestfunk, Baden-Baden Conducted BY HANS ROSBAUD Producer, Karl Keuerleber
Prologue
July 1939. On the Franco-German frontier
Act 1
Scene 1: Winner 1941-2. Paris, during the German occupation
Scene 2: Late autumn 1943. Paris: a small caff in the Place Pigalle
Scene 3: August 21, 1944. Paris: a square

Talk by the Rev. Victor White , O.P.
In the second of three talks to mark the centenary of the birth of the author of The Golden Bough, Father White considers in particular Sir Jamee Fnazer 's contribution to rhe Mudy of comparative religion.

Act 2
Scene 1: August 1945. A prison camp in France
Scene 2: Switzerland: a village by Lake
Wallenstadlt
Scene 3: September 1945. Offices of Lejeune Freres in Epernay
Scene 4: After 1945. The court of the civil tribunal

Talk by William Pickles
Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the London School of Economics On the occasion of the assumption of office by the second President of the Fourth Republic, Mr. Pickles discusses the intentions of the drafters of the constitution of 1946 in the matter of the French presidency and goes on to talk about the way in which the concept of the presidency has evolved during Monsieur Auriol 's seven-year tenure of the office.

A survey of Spanish music prepared by Roberto Gerhard and Lionel Salter
S-Songs of the Sephardim
Adviser, Leon Algazi
Illustrations recorded by Samuel Gaittegno , Jose Papo
Regine Angel , and Lazare Angel Introduced by Roberto Gerhard
(The assistance of the International Music Council and of UNESCO is gratefully acknowledged)

A new translation into English by W. S. Merwin of the medieval Spanish epic
Produced by Terence Tiller in six parts
Can tar t: Part
The Cid spends three more years in campaigns against fine Moors, and at last captures Valencia. King Alfonso allows the Cid's wife and daughters free passage to Valencia, where they are received in splendour.

The Loewenguth String Quartet:
Alfred Loewenguth (violin)
Maurice Fueri (violin)
Roger Roche (viola)
Pierre Basseux (cello)

A group of three talks to be broadcast during the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition
3-Anthony Van Dyck by David Piper
Assistant Keeper at the National Portrait Gallery
The speaker considers those qualifies that made Van Dyck the foremost portrait painter of his time 'and it was the time of Rubens); and made him, during a stay of less phan ten years in England, the greatest single influence on our portraiture,

The Island Spell April
Suite, Green Ways:
The cherry-tree; Cypress: The palm and the may
The Darkened Valley
Amberley Wild Brooks played by Joan Barker (piano)
The third of four recitals of John Ireland's piano music. (Postponed from January 7.)

Madame Jacomin and Monsieur Broc
Talk by Gordon Craig