Roy Walker talks about the International Conference on Theatre History, held recently in London

A complete reading in French
Produced by Michel Polac
(Also broadcast on August 2)

Margaret Kitchin (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader, Arthur Leavins )
Conducted by Walter Goehr
Part 1

Talk by Bruce Miller
Lecturer in Politics.
University College, Leicester
Commenting on Professor Nicholas Mansergh 's new book The Multi-Racial Gommonwealth, a report on the Fifth Unofficial Commonwealth Relations Conference at Lahore last year, Bruce Miller talks about the nature of the Commonwealth as an element in international society, as revealed in the part it plays in the foreign policies of the nation-states that belong to it.

Part 2

This is the first of two programmes in which John A. Hawgood , Professor of Modern History in the University of Birmingham, talks about the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark ,
150 years ago, to explore the headwaters of the Missouri river and to map a practicable route to the Pacific Ocean. The talk is illustrated by readings from the new edition of The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVoto.

Opera in one act
Words and music by Gian-Carlo Menotti sung in English: on records
Chorus and Orchestra
Conducted by Thomas Schippers

A poem written and read by Conrad Aiken
In the form of a meditation on the eighth-century Chinese poet Li Po , a statement is made about the nature of poetry and its function in history.