2-The Net Book Agreement by B. S. Yamey
Reader in Economics (with special reference to Distribution) in the University of London
One of the most important features of the new Restrictive Trade Practices Act is that dealing with resale price maintenance. Mr. Yamey examines this practice as applied by the Book Trade. (The recorded broadcast of August 18)

Missa Brevis
BBC Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
Harold Dexter (organ)
Conducted by Maurice Miles
From St. Gabriel's Church,
Cricklewood, London
Second of six programmes of twentieth-century choral music

Talk by Norman McCaig
It is a commonplace that the ballad was given a new lease of life by the pioneers of the U.S.A. and the Dominions at the very time when it began to decline in many of the countries from which it sprang. Norman McCaig compares the British ballad heritag- with an Australianoffshoot revealed in the recently punished anthology by Douglas Stewart and Nancy Keesing , Australian Bush Ballads.

A comedy for radio by Samy Fayad
Translated from the Italian by Henry Reed
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
The songs set by Donald Swann
Guitar, Julian Bream
The theme of Don Juan is a perennial one, and the questing Spaniard himself has sometimes been placed with Hamlet and Faust as a major aspect of the human soul. During the present version this fact should be carefully forgotten.

Gina Bachauer (piano)
London Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Hirsch )
Conductor, Alec Sherman

The Reorganisation of India's State Structure
Last of three talks by Sardar K. M. Panikkar
Indian Ambassador Designate to France
' The Indian Parliament recently passed a Bill which not only has re-drawn the map of India but provides a study in democratic processes as India is developing them.' Dr. Panikkar, who was a member of the Commission of three which drew up the original proposals for the States reorganisation, describes the anomalies that made it necessary and the methods and consequences of these extensive changes.

Sonata No. 2, in A flat, Op. 39 Rondo brillante. Op. 62 played by Natalia Karp (piano)

Illustrated talk by Geoffrey Bennett
Geoffrey Bennett , who recently spent more than two years in the U.S.S.R., has previously broadcast on the work of the Bolshoi Theatre. In this talk he recalls some of his visits to other theatres and concert halls in the U.S.S.R., including Leningrad's Kirov Theatre (formerly the Maryinsky) and Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre.
The illustrations include records of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra; Shostakovich's Quintet, with the composer himself at the piano; and the Moscow Art Theatre company in Chekhov's Three Sisters.

Chanson Spleen
Schon Rohtraut Spring
Spring song of the birds sung by Joan Taylor (soprano) with Frederick Stone (piano)