by Jules Supervielle
Adaptation by Dorothy Baker based on the translation by Alan Pryce-Jones
Production by Louis MacNeice

sung by Norman Foster (bass)
Clifton Helliwell (piano)

A talk by Martin Wight , suggested by Sir Keith Hancock 's book Country and Calling.

Quartet in E flat, Op. 127 played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin (violin) Siegmund Nissel (violin)
Peter Schidlof (viola) Martin Lovett (cello)

Three talks by Wilfrid Mellers
3-purcell
Illustrations by April Cantelo (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Desmond Dupre (viola da gamba)
Charles Spinks (harpsichord)

of Dante Alighieri
The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Produced by Peter Duval Smith
PART I (Cantos 1-5): Emerging from Hell, Dante and his guide, the spirit of Virgil, find themselves on the shores of Mount Purgatory; they are met by Cato, the guardian of Purgatory; a boat arrives carrying the souls of the newly dead, among them Dante's friend Casella; the poets meet Manfred; three spirits who died by violence and repented only just in time tell their story-they are detained in Ante-Purgatory.
For cast see Saturday at 10.30
Part 2: February 13

Opera buffa In one act by Gian-Carlo Menotti sung in Italian: on records
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan
Conducted BY NINO Sanzocno
Amelia Goes to the Ball, written when Menotti was twenty-three, was produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in 1937. The story (set in a large European city during the early years of this century) concerns Amelia's unflagging intention to go to the ball, even when her husband discovers her lover and threatens to shoot him. The police are eventually called in. and the climax to the comedy is reached when the police inspector himself partners Amelia to the ball.

A series of four talks
2-Is there a Church Militant? by Christopher Morris
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
One principal function of the Church is to refuse to compromise. It is essentially a nonconformist institution, and the question is whether in fact Churches do live up to this prophetic vocation. ' If the Churches cannot be Utopian, who eise can? *

Statsradiofonien Orchestra
Conductors:
Mogens Woldike , Thomas Jensen and Erik Tuxen
Part 1

A new short story by James Hanley read by Hugh Griffith

Part 2

by Marshal of the Royal Air Force
Sir John Slessor
C.C.B., D.S.O., M.C.
Jn this talk Sir John Slessor gives a critical assessment of defence problems in Asia, with special reference to Formosa and to the South-East Asia Defence Treaty. This is the second of two talks based on the Pollak Lecture which Sir John delivered at Harvard University at the end of last year.

Sonata in A (K.3311 played by Nina Milkina (piano)