A comedy for music in three acts by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
(sung in German) on gramophone records
(Continued in next column) Waiters Wolfgang,DaucherRudolf Stumper Fritz Erber Ferdin and Settmacher
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY ERICH KLEIBER
The action takes place in Vienna in the early years of the reign of Maria Theresa.
ACT I
The Princess's bedroom

of Dante Alighieri
The third cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
,Produced by Peter Duval Smith
Part 3 (Cantos 12-17)

ACT 2
Faninal's reception room

Ian Grimble gives his impressions of the Faroese and an interpretation of their traditional social and political behaviour.

Act 3
A private room at an inn
10.50 DRUGS OF ELECTION
Morris Carstairs , who is both an anthropologist and a psychologist, speaks about the reasons why different peoples have chosen different drugs or intoxicants. ' Pharmacological analysis,' he says, can tell us about the properties of a given drug, but only a study of the emotional values of a society can explain why it is used in some societies and rejected in others.'

Sonata played by Clive Lythgoe (piano)
Piano Sonata by Lennox Berkeley : May 26