'DIE ENTFUHRUNG
AUS DEM SERAIL'
('The Seraglio')
Libretto by Bretzner
(sung in the original German)
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Peter GeUhorn )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Led by Lionel Bentley )
Conducted BY PAUL Sacher
Chief coach, Jani Strasser
Producer, Peter Ebert
Part

Talk by Bruce Miller
Lecturer in Politics and Head of the Department of Government at University College, Leicester
The 1956 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference opens in London on June 27.

by Henrik Ibsen in a new translation from the Norwegian by Michael Meyer
Produced by Peter Watts
This strange, sometimes puzzling, sometimes irritating, often over-contrived yet continuously fascinating play is among Ibsen's lesser-known works; welcome, therefore, to an excellent new translation by Michael Meyer. Written in 1894, it is a late piece, with Ibsen no longer so concerned with the individual and society as with individuals themselves. Here he comes to closer consideration than ever before of possible marriage problems on the physical side: passion is dead in Alfred Allmers, a rather priggish schoolteacher, though not in his wife Rita, and their crippled only child, Eyolf, suffers in consequence from his father's adoration and his mother's neglect. Also Allmers's relationship with his sister Asta involves complexes more commonly associated with Greek dramatists than the Norwegian. Yet the treatment of this powerful problematical situation is wholly Ibsenite, with its carefully woven provincial atmosphere and characteristic overplay of symbolism in speech and action. Peter Forster

PART 2

by J. Kenneth Galbraith
Professor of Economics in the University of Harvard
This talk is a broadcast version of the lecture given by Professor Galbraith at the London School of Economics last month. In it he argues that many of the economic and social institutions most firmly believed in satisfy neither of the canons of greater efficiency and social justice.

The poem by Charlotte Mew
Read by Flora Robson

The Element Quartet:
Ernest Element (violin)
Kenneth Page (violin)
Dorothy Hemming (viola)
Oliver Brookes (cello)
(first broadcast performance)