This is the second 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 , from the Missouri to the Pacific and back, 150 years ago. The talk is illustrated by readings from the new edition of The Journals of Lewis and Clark edited by Bernard DeVoto.
(The recorded broadcast of Aug. 20)

The Court Ensemble:
Adele Leigh (soprano) Harold Clarke (flute)
Joy Hall (cello)
Peter Gellhorn (harpsichord)
Methodische Sonate in D minor, for flute and continuo (ed. Seiffert)
Sonus (arr. Seiffert):
Seltenes Gluck ; Falschheit: Die vergesserne Phillis
Cantata No. 17 (Der harmonische
Gottesdienst): Du bist verflucht, 0 Schreckensstimme (ed. Fock and Seiffert)
Last of three programmes of music by Telemann

A talk by Use Barea , who has recently revisited Vienna after twentyyears

Opera in one act with a prologue Words by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Music by Richard Strauss
Cast in order of singing (in German):
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTKD BY KARL BÖHM
Producer, Josef Gieten
THE PROLOGUB
A hall in the mansion of a nobleman

A series of talks commenting on current legal issues
22-State Secrets and Private Rights by H. W. R. Wade
Fellow of Trinity College. Cambridge Many affairs of state ought to be kept secret; yet no litigant ought to be hampered in the production of evidence to support his case. When these two principles clash a satisfactory solution may be hard to find.

THE OPERA
A stage set erected in the hall representing the outside of Ariadne's cave

A poem by Wallace Stevens
Read by David Gascoyne with music composed by Humphrey Searle played by Freddie Phillips
To an extent unusual even in modern literature, Wallace Stevens' poems are about poetry itself. ' His recurring preoccupation,' a critic has said, ' is to penetrate by absolute self-consciousness into the nature of the poetic act.'
( Poetry is the subject of the poem, Front this the poem issues and To this returns. Between the two, Between issue and return, there is An absence in reality, Things as they are.'
In this strapgely elegant sequence Wallace Stevens struggles to impose order upon-or give meaning to the chaos of everyday experience (' things as they are ') by the act of poetic imagination.

Quintet in F minor: Hollywood String Quartet, Victor Aller (piano): records