Sonata in A minor, Op. 143 played by Lili Kraus (piano) on gramophone records

by August Strindberg
English version and radio adaptation by Max Faber
Produced by Wilfrid Grantham
Cast in order of speaking:

The action passes throughout in the living room of Mrs. Heyst's house in a Swedish provincial town during the three days immediately before Easter Sunday, 1901.

devised by Nadia Boulanger
BBC Singers
The Virtuoso Chamber Ensemble:
Sidney Fel l (clarinet)
Ronald Waller (bassoon)
John Burden (horn)
Lionel Bentley (violin)
Gwynne Edwards (viola)
Willem de Mont (cello) Denis Matthews (piano)
Charles Spinks (organ)
A section of the London Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Thomas Matthews )
Conducted by Nadia Boulanger
(who also plays the harpsichord)
Part 1

Talk by J. B. Ward Perkins
Director of the British School at Rome
The groat megalithic buildimgs of Malta and her sister-island Gozo have for many years both excited and fruatra'cd speculation about the prehistory settlement of rthe island jn the second and third millennia B.C. In this talk Mr. Ward Perkins speaks about those monuments and The problems they present; in July, John D. Evans and Professor Stuart PiggoM, who are currently work;ng on rhe discoveries from past and recent . excavations, will give further reports.

Part 2

Talk by Aaron Copland
Mr. Copland received an Oscar ' for his most recent film music, written for The Heiress.
This talk was recorded during his recent visit to Britain.

(' Heimkehr aus der Fremde *)
Liederspiel In one act
Text by C . Klingemann
Music byMendelssohn
English version by Geoffrey Dunn
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodg &te)
The Boyd Neel Orchestra (Leader. Granville Jones )
CONDUCTED BY STANFORD ROBINSON
Producer, Geoffrey Dunn
Repetiteur, Gwen Williams

J. Isaacs speaks about the American poet who celebrated his eightieth birthday recently

Quartet In D. Op. 64 No. 5 (The Lack) played by the Loewenguth String Quartet