by Walter de la Mare
Radio script by Barbara Bray
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston conducted by Douglas Robinson
Cast in order of speaking:
Production by Donald McWhinnie

An opera in three acts
Libretto by Ranieri Calzabigi
Music by Gluck
(Sung In the original Italian)
The Geraint Jones Singers and Orchestra
(Leader, Winifred Roberts )
CONDUCTOR, GERAINT Jones
Alan Harverson
(harpsichord continue)
Repetiteur.George Coop
The action takes place in Ancient Greece in mythological times.
ACT I
Scene 1: A courtyard before the palace at
Pherae
Scene 2: The temple of Apollo

Talk by Sidney Kark
Professor of Social. Preventive, and Family Medicine. University of Natal.
Durban
Professor Kark speaks about the severe health problems among Africans created by the processes of social and cultural change. He stresses that the matter is far wider than diseases directly due to urban slum conditions, and therefore takes as particular illustration a rural community in Natal where he was responsible for the establishment of a pioneer health centre.

ACT 2
A hall in the palace

An Unsolved Problem
Talk by T. M. Harris
Professor of Botany
In the University of Reading
Flowering plants are the predominant plants over most of the world--conifer forests apart-and they provide us with most of our food; yet we know very little about their origin. In this talk Professor Harris considers the available evidence and the difficulties posed by it, and indicates the more hopeful lines of research.

ACT 3
Scene 1: A courtyard in the palace Scene 2: The entrance to Hades

First of two talks by Fritz Rothschild
Mr. Rothschild's book on Bach, The Lost Tradition, aroused widespread comment. He is now working on the conventions of tempo, time signatures, and accentuation accepted by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.