BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader. Paul Beard )
Conducted by Franz-Andre
A series of talks commenting on current legal issues
16-Avoidance of Death Duties and Control of Infants'
Property by a barrister
('Ero S Onoga Svijeta')
A comic opera in three acts based on a folk story by Milan Begovic
Music by Jakov Gotovac
(sung in Serbo-Croat)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre, Zagreb
Conducted by the Composer
Producer, Nando Roje
From the Stoll Theatre, London
Scene: a small village in Dalmatia at the foot of the Dinara Mountains, in early autumn. Time: the present day
Act 1: Outside Marko's house
(by arrangement with Peter Daubeny Presentations Ltd., and Eugene Iskoldoff Productions)
Jacques-Yves Cousteau talks about his underwater archaeological findings in the Mediterranean.
Act 2: In Sima's mill
Talk by Arnold Noach
The clash between unregenerate Rococo and austere Louis-Seize is portrayed in a little-known novel by the French eighteenth-century architect Jean-François Blondel, which shows the Man of Taste wooed by two lady loves. Arnold Noach talks about the novel and about L'Education des Riches, a genre picture of the same period at present on view in London at the Royal Academy.
Act 3: The annual fair
of Dante Alighieri
The second cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Part 1 (Cantos 1-5)