A play by Robert Nichols
Adapted for radio' and produced by Raymond Raikes
Characters in order of speaking:
Scene: The living-room of a house, formerly a Buddhist temple, on an eminence immediately above a Treaty Port of Southern Japan. Period: The year 1922.

Opera in three acts by Bellini Libretto
by Carlo Pepoli
(sung in Italian) on gramophone records
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
(Chorus-Master, Vittore Veneziani )
CONDUCTED BY TULLIO SERAFIN
The action takes place in England, near Plymouth, during the Civil War.
Act 1

Richard Irvine Best
'To talk well about Irian would take all the lifetimes of all the men who've ever studied this language and literature.' Such is the view of Dr. Richard Irvine Best, late Librarian of the National Library of Ireland, who has himself spent a lifetime in this study. He speaks therefore not so much about Irish as its devotees, re-. calling some of the famous and diverting personalities he has encountered during his life's work.

Acts 2 and 3

Unpublished poetry chosen and introduced by Anthony Hartley

French Overture in B minor played by George Malcolm (harpsichord)
Last of six programmes of harpsichord music from Bach's Clavieriibung