Quartet in C (K.465) played by the Amadeus String Quartet

Talk by Alan Pryce-Jones
Some reflections on unpaid debts owed by modern literary criticism to the Victorians.

of La Mancha' by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The translation by Charles Jarvis adapted for broadcasting in six parts by Paul Ferris
Part 5: Wherein are related the adventures of the puppet show and the enchanted bark; together widi an account of Don Quixote 's meeting with the Duke and Duchess, and of the remarkable method prescribed to Don Quixote for the disenchanting of the lady Dulcinea.
The Storyteller, Norman Shelley
Music composed by Manuel Lazareno and conducted by Maurice Miles flautist, Gareth Morris
Production by Peter Duval Smith and Douglas Cleverdon

('The Town Across the Water')
Opera-oratorio
Words by Hermann Kasack
Music by Hans Vogt
Other parts taken by Charlotte Betcke, Margot Fehling
Dorothea Georgi , Elisabeth Gobber
Joshard Daus , Giinter Gennersch
Theodor Henn , Horst Sellentin
Chorus and Orchestra of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk.
Hamburg
(Chorus-Master. Otto Franze)
Conducted BY WILHELM SCHÜCHTER
Producer, Otto Kurth
Hans Vogt was born at Danzig in 1911. His opera-oratorio Die Stadt hinter dem Strom is based on Hermann Kasack 's novel of the same name, which has been published in an English translation by Peter de Mendelssohn under the title Th. City beyond the River. It it a version of the Orpheus legend; ' Orpheus ' being Robert Lindhoff , who receives a summons to record events in a strange city which proves to be an intermediate realm between life and death. There he meets Anna, the girl with whom he had been in love; she has committed suicide and represents Eurydice H.R,

The Narrator - Richard Lauffen
Robert (baritone) - Hans-Herbert Fiedler
Anna (soprano) - Margot Guilleaume
The Great ' Don ' (bass) - Hermann Rieth
Perkdng (lyric tenor) - Helmuth Kretschmar
Leonhard (mezzo-soprano) - Ursula Zollenkopf
A Novelist (buffo tenor) - Kurt Marschner
An Agent (bass) - Sigmund Roth
The Forewoman (contralto) - Adelheid Berger

Discussion between
John Brough
Professor of Sanskrit in the University of London
A. J. Ayer
Professor of Philosophy in the University of London
J. R. Firth
Professor of General Linguistic* in the University of London
Professor Brough presents some of the leading doctrines of the ' Treatise upon Word and Sentence' (Vakyapadiya) of the fourth-century philosopher Bhartrihari, and provides material for discussion of the central question of philosophy and linguistics.

Sonata in D, Op. 53 played by Artur Schnabel (piano) on gramophone records

Two shorter poems and part of Le Ricordanze
Read in Italian by Anna Proelemer and in English by Robert Eddison Translations by Margaret BottraM and John Heath-Stubbs