English Suite No. 6, in D minor played by Rosalyn Tureck (piano)

A play in three acts by Jean Anouilh
Translated by Miriam John
Radio adaptation and production by Raymond Raikes
Cliaracters in order of speaking:

John Cameron (baritone)
BBC Chorus
BBC Choral Society
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Malcolm Sargent
Part 1

The English Channel
Talk by F. S. Russell F.R.S ,.
Director of the Marine Biological Association Laboratory. Plymouth
The speaker deals with biological changes observed in the English Channel in recent years and suggests that the causes of such local changes must be sought in the deep ocean.
Twelfth of a group of talks

Part 2

Roberto Gerhard reviews Composition with Twelve Notes by Josef Rufer (translated by Humphrey Searle ), and Twentieth-Century Counterpoint by Humphrey Searle.

Sonata in G minor, Op. 5 No. 2 played by Pablo Casals (cello)
Rudolf Serkin (piano) on gramophone records

William Plomer introduces a number of poems which he has chosen on the principle that gaiety is preferable to earnestness, natural piety to self-sufficiency, and high spirits to truculence.
Readers:
Felix Felton and Carleton Hobbs