by Schiller
Translated by S. T. Coleridge
Adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood
Cast in order of speaking:
Produced by Donald McWhinnie and Michael Barkewell
The action begins in General Wallenstein's camp at Pilsen in the year 1634, at the height of the Thirty Years War. The opening sequences of this adaptation incorporate material from Schiller's Piccolomini, the preceding play in the Wallenstein trilogy.
During the interval (4.0-4.15 app.):
Smetana
Symphonic Poem: Wallenstein's Camp played by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Henry Swoboda on gramophone records

Talk by Robert Silvey
Head of Audience Research, BBC
Last November the BBC invited the co-operation of listeners in the formation of a Third Programme Listening Panel. More than seven thousand offers of help were received. The panel has now been organised and starts work at the end of the month. Mr. Silvey explains the purpose of the panel and how it will work, and describes some of the problems involved in its creation as a body representing the views of the Third Programme listener.

An opera in three acts
Libretto by Arturo Colautti
(after Sardou)
Music by Giordano
(sung in Italian)
(Continued in next column)
Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Milan
(Chorus-Master, Roberto Benaglio )
CONDUCTED by OLIVIERO DE FABRITIIS
Time: the late nineteenth century
Act 1: St. Petersburg
An elegant apartment in the house of Count Vladimir Andreyevich
Act 2: Paris
A reception at the house of Princess
Fedora Romazov
Act 3: Switzerland
The garden of Fedora's villa in the Bernese Oberland

by Sir Ivor Jennings Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ceylon
I-A Great Experiment
This is the first of two talks by Sir Ivor Jennings on what he calls ' the greatest political experiment of all time.' The two talks together form an introduction to a series of lectures which he will give, on his return to England, on constitution-building in the nations of the British Commonwealth.

Das musikalische Opfer
(Regis Jussu Cantio et Reliqua
Canonica Arte Resoluta) played by the London Harpsichord Ensemble

compared with an actor's
As an experiment in comparative interpretation, Michael Hordern and C. Day Lewis have recorded independent readings of the latter's poem The Album. In this programme they meet to hear them and discuss them with James Reeves.

Pierre- Bernac (baritone) Francis Poulenc (piano)

Gertrude Levy talks about some aspects of his life and work

An interview by Henry Mayhew
Adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from Mayhew's
'London Labour and the London Poor' with Harry Locke and Carleton Hobbs

Julius Isserlis (piano)
Notturno No. 3: 0 lieb, so lang du lieben kannst
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Annees de
Pelerinage: deuxieme annfe, Italie)
Two Concert- Studies:
Waldesrauschen ; Gnomenreigen
Au Lac de Wallenstadt (Annies de
Pèlerinage: premiere annie, Suisse)
RhapsodieEspag:nole(Foliesd'Espagne et Jota aragonesa)

' A Visit to the Gypsies '
First of two talks by Count Benkendorff