A version based on the Salzburg ' Jedermann' by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Translated and arranged for broadcasting by Dennis Arundell with incidental music composed by Sibelius
(which is being performed for the first time in this country)
Production by Wilfrid Grantham
(Continued in next column)
Other parts played by Rosemary Miller , Joan Harrison
Frank Taylor. Edgar Metcalfe
Anne McGrath , and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
The Goldsbrough Orchestra (Leader, Emanuel Hurwitz )
Conducted by Dennis Arundell

or 'The Shepherd'
An opera in three acts
Words by Jaroslaw Iwaskiewicz and Karol Szymanowski
English version by Geoffrey Dunn Music by Karol Szymanowski.
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Arthur Leavins )
CONDUCTED BY STANFORD ROBINSON
Producer, Geoffrey Dunn
Repetiteur, Bryan Balkwill
Scene: Sicily in the twelfth century
Act 1
In a church

A monthly review of cultural and political trends in the U.S.S.R.
Islam in the U.S.S.R.
Talk by Geoffrey Wheeler
Director of the Central Asian Research Centre

Act 2
The inner courtyard of King Roger's palace

Threa talks by R. H. Macmillan of the Department of Engineering,
University of Cambridge
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The speaker traces the evolution of the current industrial, military, and domestic uses of automatic control, and explains their common mode of action.

Act 3
The ruins of an ancient Greek theatre

of Dante AJighieri
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 6 (Cantos 28-33): Dante, at the summit of Mount Purgatory, sees before him the Earthly Paradise; he meets the lady Matilda, who is to lead him to the divine Beatrice; an elaborate mystical procession approaches, symbolising the elements of theology; Beatrice appears out of this procession, and Dante is overwhelmed with shame for his disloyalty to her; he follows the procession through the Divine Forest, and a series of transformations takes place typifying various crises in the history of the Church; Dante is now ready to mount on his further journey to Paradise.

The Quintetto Chigiano

by J. Robert Oppenheimer
Director of the Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, New Jersey
Under the general title Man's Right to Knowledge a number of talks were broadcast at the end of last year to mark the two-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Columbia University, New York. One of them was this contribution from Dr Oppenheimer.
(Recording made available by courtesy of CBS)

Anthony Bernard introduces a programme of music on records
Items include ' El amor brujo ' and 'Noches en los jardines de Espada'

Talk by John Lehmann
This talk includes the reading of some unpublished letters of Virginia Woolf which reveal much of her attitude towards her own writing and the writing of her younger contemporaries.
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 7)