by Anton Chekhov
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe from the translation by Constance Garnett
Characters in order of speaking:
(Conttnued in next column)
Cicely Hoye (piano)
Eleanor Warren (cello)
Alexis Chesnakov (guitar)
Produced by Mary Hope Allen

Martha Lipton (mezzo-soprano)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)

Margaret Lane speaks about a newly discovered essay by Emily Bronte

Robert Collet introduces a programme of music on gramophone records
Items include the Violin Concerto No. 1 and the Sinfonia Concertante for piano and orchestra

A talk illustrating judicial elegance, by S. D. Temkin

of Dante Alighieri
The first cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading In six parts
Part 2 (Cantos 6-11): The Third Circle of the gluttonous; the Fourth Circle of the misers and spendthrifts; the Fifth Circle of the wrathful; the poets cross the marsh of Styx; they are turned away from the City of Hell; the Heavenly Messenger intervenes: the Sixth Circle of the heretics; the prophecy of Farinata; Virgil explains the arrangement of Hell.
Produced by Peter Duval Smith

Sonata in E minor, Op. 38 played by Antonio Janigro (cello)
Ernest Lush (piano)

3—Limits of Philanthropy
Talk by W. L. Burn Professor of History in the University of Durham
' The example of a nation in which every class of society accepts with cheerfulness the lot which Providence has assigned to it, while at the same time each individual of each class is constantly trying to raise himself ' — Palmerston natters the Commons of England.

Elsie Morison (soprano)
Marjorie Thomas (contralto)
Richard Lewis (tenor) Richard Standen (bass)
Lionel Salter (fortepiano)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)
(and organ continuo)
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master. Leslie Woodgate )
New London Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Hirsch )
Conducted by Walter Goehr
(Continued in next column) Third of a series of programmes

A study of ' The Spiritual Espousals' by the Blessed
Jan van Ruysbroek
(1293-1381)
The Rev. Charles Smith, Vicsr of Heatherycleugh-in-Weardale, talks about the mysticism of Ruysbroek, whose deep sense of the inter-penetration of the natural and supernatural worlds characterises all his work. Selections made by Mr. Smith from The Spiritual Espousals are read by Robert Speaight.

String Quartet in F played by the Martin String Quartet:
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin)
Eileen Grainger (viola)
Bernard Richards (cello)