A talk on the relation between the Arab States and the U.S.S.R. by Edouard Sablier
Middle East correspondent of Le Monde

Gwendolen Mason (harp)
Jack Brymer (basset-horn) Walter Lear (basset-horn) Gwydion Brooke (bassoon)

by William Sansom
Quotations read by Anthony Jacobs
Mr. Sansom talks about a novel he wrote many years ago called Baby Bountiful. ' Its first and fundamental fault was that it sprang from a funny idea largely unrelated to real life. It postulated an England where a half-mad prime minister introduced emergency measures to increase the population rate ...

by Gerard McLarnon
Happy is the man who has made a good journey. Every summer my grandfather made a good journey.....'
Produced by Francis Dillon

Daphne Spottiswoode (piano)
Wilfred Smith (piccolo)
Hubert Dawkes (harpsichord)
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Lionel Bentley )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard

The celebrated soprano recently visited London and recorded this interview with Walter Todds.
In the course of the programme she recalls the performances and recording of Der Rosenkavalier and her memories of working with Richard Strauss.
9.50 app. Gramophone records of Lotte Lehmann Including lieder by Mozart, Schumann, and Wolf, and excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier and Die Walkure.

A short story by R. K. Narayan
Read by Gerik Schjelderup

Gopal had to pretend to die. The director insisted. The script could not be changed. But Gopal had reached his forty-ninth birthday, a most fateful occasion, and the astrologers had warned him to avoid any risk of ill omen. Gopal required an antidote...

The Macgibbon String Quartet:
Margot Maegibbon (violin)
Lorraine du Val (violin)
Anatole Mines (viola) Lilly Phillips (cello)