A chronicle of the development of English drama from its beginnings to the 1580s
Arranged for broadcasting and introduced by John Barton
Production by Raymond Raikes
2-Mystery Plays: The Old Testament
'The Creation and Fall of Man'
'Noah's Flood'
' Abraham and Isaac'
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston played by the Goldsbrough Orchestra conducted by Douglas Robinson
Full details of the thirteen programmes in the series are contained in The First Stage, a handbook by John Barton , which may be obtained through newsagents and booksellers or post free by crossed postal order for 2s. 6d. from BBC Publications, [address removed]

The Macgibbon String Quartet: Margot Macgibbon , Lorraine du Val
Anatole Mines , Lilly Phillips
This is the second of three programmes in which the three string quartets by Berwald (1796-1868) are being played for the first time in this country, together with the three quartets of Arriaga (1806-1826).

A monthly report on the arts, science, and politics abroad
Compiled by Alan Pryce-Jones
Including a report on Hungary by George Mikes , who has recently returned from Budapest; a comment by Alan Pryce-Jones on the Viennese reaction to the events in Hungary; and a talk by J. M. Cohen on the political scene in Spain as reflected in two French journals-the Left-wing Roman Catholic Esprit, and the Independent Communist Temps Modernes.

Gramophone records of a rehearsal and performance of Mozart's Symphony No. 36, in C (K.425) (The Linz) by the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Walter
Listeners may find a score useful for following the rehearsal.

The Victim.
Plaintiff in a Prosecution
Talk by C. J. Hamson
Professor of Comparative Law in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity College
Is it desirable that the person who has suffered loss as the result of a crime should be able to secure compensation or restitution in the criminal process itself? French procedure allows the victim to appear personally as plaintiff in that process; English procedure in general requires him to sue in a separate action.

or Round the Heart in Any Year '
A morality by George Barker with music by Lennox Berkeley
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
(Continued in next column)
Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer
Musette accordion. Albert Delroy
This play has been sub-titled a morality because it is about a voyage of redemption-undertaken by a pair of twins, Peter Amadeus and Josephus Amadeus , together with an Irish joker by the nsme of Jimmy Hill. The episodes of the play are designed to represent a set of allegories on the evolution of the human heart.

by D. H. Kahnweiler
On February 22, 1907, Henry Kahnweiler, aged twenty-two, arrived in Paris to become a picture dealer. Shortly afterwards he met Picasso, then twenty-five, and became his dealer and friend. In this talk he remembers the Picasso of those early days and considers some facets of the artist's personality.
A broadcast version of M. Kahnweiler's lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in connection with the Institute's current exhibition Picasso Himself.

A selection of his poems
Introduced by the author
Readers: Oliver Burt
David Lloyd James , Laurie Lee
The poems in this programme have been selected from Poets of Tomorrow (1942), The Sun my Monument (1944), The Bloom of Candles (1947), and My Many-coated Man (1955).

5-The Italian
Renaissance Organ (sixteenth century) in the Silberne Kapelle of the Hofburg, Innsbruck
Recital by Geraint Jones
Introduced by Cecil Clutton

Talk by Glyn Daniel
Fellow of St. John's College.
Cambridge
In this talk Dr. Daniel discusses A History of the Society of Antiquaries of London by Dr. Joan Evans , which has recently been published. Himself a Fellow of the Society and one who has written on the history of archaeology, he here discusses the development of the Society as an index of changing antiquarian thought, and asks what its role should be in a modern state interested in the past.