String Quartet No. 1, in E minor
(From my Life) played by the Vegh Quartet on gramophone records

by W. B. Yeats

ACT I
Scene 1: An open space near the palace of the King at Memphis
Scene 2: The temple of Vulcan at Memphis

Lewis Hill comments on the religious element in contemporary American poetry.
Mr. Hill is director of a non-commercial radio station in Berkeley, California, which is noted for the high standard of its literary broadcasts.

Act 2
Scene 1: The apartments of Amneris at
Thebes
Scene 2: The city of Thebes

An interview by Henry Mayhew
Adapted by Douglas Cleverdon from Mayhew's
' London Labour and t he London Poor' with Norman Shelley and Carleton Hobbs

ACT 3
The temple of Isis by the Nile

Talk by David Green
For some time Mr. Green has been working on a biography of Henry Wise (1653-1738), gardener to Queen Anne. In this talk he speaks about Wise's work in the royal parks and gardens. Contrary to popular belief, says Mr. Green, the formal garden of the time had qualities of unexpectedness and variety.

ACT 4
Scene 1: Outside the temple at Memphis Scene 2: The tomb

by Valda Aveling
Bach Prelude and Fugue in F minor (Das wohltemperirte Clavier, Book 2)
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue