' DER ROSENKAVAL1ER '
An opera in three acts
Libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal Music by Richard Strauss
(sung in German)
(Continued in next column)
A black boy, a noble widow, three noble orphans, guests, footmen, waiters
Vienna State Opera Chorus
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
CONDUCTED BY HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
Producer, Josef Gielen
(Relayed from Vienna by courtesy of Oesterreichischer Rundfunk)
Scene: Vienna in the eighteenth century during the reign of Maria Theresa.
Act 1: The boudoir of the Princess

Talk by Clive Parry
Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge
The Malta Round Table Conference has lately been examining the proposal to incorporate Malta in the United Kingdom. Clive Parry considers some constitutional and political aspects of this question.
(The recorded broadcast of Nov. 11)

Acr 2: the hall in the house of Faninal

W.H. Auden speaks about the trilogy The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien , the last volume of which has recently been published. The trilogy, which describes the adventures of Frodo and the One Ring of Power, is a fairy tale cast in an epic mould.
A dramatisation in six parts of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, is being broadcast in the Third Programme, beginning this week.

Act 3: A private room at an inn
' Wozzeck/ from Vienna: November 26

A discussion by the Epiphany Philosophers
The Epiphany Philosophers are a group of philosophers and psychologists who are also members of the Church of England. The traditional story for the Feast of the Epiphany, namely that of the Wise Men from the East being led by a star to Bethlehem, provides a close parable of the approach to religion made by philosophers and scientists of this kind. This approach is undertaken not through accepting the -established ways of traditional thought and worship but by trusting to an intuition that there is something to be investigated and by following the methods of thinking which science and philosophy supply.

Quartet No. 1, Op. 7
Lento; Allegretto; Allegro vivace played by the Juilliard String Quartet:
Robert Mann (violin) Robert Koff (violin)
Raphael Hillyer (viola)
Claus Adam (cello)

by Paul Claudel
Translated from
' Cinq Grandes Odes ' and introduced by Geoffrey Brereton
4—' The Muse who is Divine Grace'
Readers: Valentine Dyall and Margot van der Burgh
Production by Christopher Sykes

Sonata in C (unfinished) played by Denis Matthews (piano)
(The recorded broadcast of March 4)