by Sean O'Casey
Adapted for broadcasting by Patrick Riddell.
[Starring] Seamus Kavanagh, Peggy Marshall, and Jack MacGowran
Vincent Brome writes on page 6

4.30-4.35 Interlude

Opera in five acts by Meilhac and Gille
Music by Massenet
(sung in French)
on gramophone records

Act 1: The courtyard of an inn at Amiens
Act 2: The apartment of Des Grieux and Manon in Paris

Talk by W.H. Morris-Jones

Polling in India's second general election begins tomorrow, and prevailing opinion is that the Congress Party will be returned to office. The absence of a strong opposition party with clear policies seems to mean that the election is one without real choice. Professor Morris-Jones, of the Department of Social Studies, University of Durham, considers whether this is an adequate view of the Indian political scene.

Act 3
Scene 1: The Cours-la-Reine Promenade
Scene 2: In the seminary of St. Sulpice

A short story by Heinrich Boll
Translated from the German by Richard Graves
Read by Gilbert Harding
(The recorded broadcast of Dec. 26)

Act 4: A gambling room at the Hotel de Transylvanie
Act 5: On the road to Le Havre

A series of six readings

Devised by Elizabeth Zeeman, Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge
Read by Gary Watson in a slightly modified version of the original

William Pleeth (cello)
BBC Chorus (Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Leader, Steven Staryk)
Conducted by Berthold Goldschmidt

by Sewell Stokes

(See Monday at 6.55)

Part 2

Talk by John Midgley

Recent events in Eastern Europe have had significant repercussions in Western Germany. Mr. Midgley, who has recently returned from a visit to the Federal Republic, considers their possible effects on the general elections later this year.
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 18)

Aeolian String Quartet: Sydney Humphreys (violin), Trevor Williams (violin), Watson Forbes (viola), John Moore (cello)