A. comedy for music in three acts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
(sung in German) on gramophone records
Footmen of the Princess
Alois Buchbauer , Ludwig Fleck , Fritz Maier , and Otto Vajda
Waiters Wolfgang Daucher , Rudolf Stumper , Fritz Erber. Ferdinand Settmacher
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY ERICH KLEIBER
The action takes place in Vienna in. the early years of the reign of Maria Theresa.
Act 1: The Princess's bedroom

Richard Murphy speaks about W. B. Yeats in the light of his recently published letters and the study by Richard Ellman called The Identity of Yeats.

Act 2: Faninal's reception room

Talk by Sheila Patterson
Mrs. Patterson speaks about the many Canadians-twenty per cent of the population-who are of neither British nor French origin, of their effect on Canadian society, and of Canada's post-war attempts to integrate the new immigrants as distinct from the old policy of assimilation.'
To be repeated on January 11

Act 3: A private room at an inn
See also Thursday at 9.25

by Sir Max Beerbohm
Many years ago Sir Max Beerbohm wrote, but did not publish, a few essays about some of his contemporaries. This is the second of two recordings which Sir Max recently made in Rapallo for the BBC.
followed by an interlude at 9.10

Andre Jaunet (flute)
Ursula Burkhard (flute)
Hans Andreae (harpsichord)
Collegium Musicum , Zurich
Conductor, Paul Sacher

Spike Hughes talks about Sir William Walton 's opera, another performance of which is to be broadcast from Covent Garden on Tuesday evening at 7.0
Illustrations recorded by: Magda Laszlo (soprano)
Richard Lewis (tenor)
Otakar Kraus (baritone)
James Gibson (piano)

PIANO MUSIC played by Dyna August

Talk by Terence Prittie Manchester Guardian correspondent in Germany
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 23)