A radio play by Padraic Fallon
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Douglas Robinson

(BBC recording)

(Douglas Robinson broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd.)

(To be repeated on Thursday at 8.5)

Peter Forster writes on page 6

During the Interval (3.50-4.0 app.): C.P.E. Bach
Three Sonatas for wind instruments played by the London Baroque Ensemble,
Conductor, Karl Haas
(on gramophone records)

followed by an interlude at 4.50

Opera in three acts by Rimsky-Korsakov sung in Russian: on records
Cast in order of singing:
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre Academy
Conducted BY VASILI NEBOLISIN
The action takes place in Little Russia, near Dikanka, during Whitsun week
Act 1
A village street, in front of Hanna's cottage

Lord Radcliffe, G.B.E., speaks on the Report ' National Gallery: 1938-54 '

Acr 2
Scene 1: The village headman's house
Scene 2: A village street, in front of the scribe's cottage
Act 3: The lakeside

Three talks by Robert Baldick , D.Phil.
Lecturer in Modern Languages at University and Pembroke Colleges,
Oxford
2-Spleen and Disillusion
In the second of his three talks on pessimism in nineteenth-century French literature Dr. Baldick deals with the phase of ' realist disillusionment ' which developed after the revolutions of 1830 and 1848.

Quartet in B flat. Op. 18 No. 6 Quartet in F, Op. 135 played by the Amadeus String Quartet:
Norbert Brainin. Siegmund Nissel
Peter Schidlof, Martin Lovett

A talk by Michael Tippett on the Mozart bicentenary
Also this week: ' The Birth of an Opera/ t programme about 'The Marriage of Figaro ' (Monday and Wednesday); a concert from the Royal Festival Hall (Tuesday); * Idomeneo * from Salzburg (Friday); Mass in C minor (Saturday).

A literary invention by V. S. Pritchett
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall with Angela Clare , Gladys Spencer and Zena Walker

Suzanne Danco (soprano)
Ernest Lush (piano)

by Sir Gavin de Beer, F.R.L
Director, British Museum
(Natural History)
Who were the Etruscans? Were they the original inhabitants of Italy, or did they come from Asia Minor? Sir Gavin de Beer shows how science can be turned to answer this and other questions.

Sonata No. 3, in E minor, Op. 38 played by Alan Loveday (violin)
Leonard Cassint (piano)