' IL BARBIERE
DI SIVIGLIA'
('The Barber of Seville ')
A comic opera in two acts
Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Music by Rossini
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY VITTORIO Gui
Continuo, Raymond Leppard
Producer, Carl Ebert
Chief coach, Jani Strasser
Act 1
Scone 1: Outside Dr Bartolo's house in Seville. Dawn
Scene 2: Inside Dr. Bartolo's house. Later ohe same morning

Talk by Louis Kraft
General Secretary of the South African Institute of International Affairs
Louis Kraft contrasts the native policies of the various European peoples administering territories in Africa south of the Sahara. He sees in this contrast a reflection of national heritages as persistent and as hard to transplant in Africa as in Europe.

A drama translated by Gerard Hopkins from the French of Michel de Ghelderode
Cast in order of speaking:
(Continued in next column)
Music composed by Elisabeth Lutyens conducted by Edward Clark
The play adapted and produced by R. D. Smith

Act 2
The music room. Late afternoon

Illustrated talk by Walter Emery
Fifty years ago Albert Schweitzer elaborated and popularised the theory that much of Bach's music is symbolic. Since then, critics have tended to divide into two groups, one going even further than Schweitzer and attributing to Bach an interest in numerology, and the other feeling that the symbolism in Bach's music has been much exaggerated.

or ' The Consequences of Filial Piety *
A moral legend by Jules Laforgue
Translated and adapted for radio by Henry Reed
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon For details see Thursday at 7.55

Nina Milkina (piano)
Sonata in G (K.283)
Sonata in B flat (K.570)

H. G. Nicholas talks about Sir Winston Churchill's war memoirs Sir Winston Churchill once wrote of Lord Rosebery: ' the Past stood over at his elbow and was the counsellor upon whom he most relied.' The final volume of Sir Winston's war memoirs, Triumph and Tragedy, was published recently. H. G. Nicholas , Fellow of New College, Oxford, analyses in his talk the elements that compose Sir Winston's view of history.