BBC Chorus
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate

The work by Hugo Cole, written last year, is a setting of a text by the fourteenth-century Scottish poet William Dunbar. David Cox's setting of Psalm 66 was also written last year: although influenced by early polyphony, it is contemporary in style.

Of The Nativitie Of Christ (first broadcast performance)...Hugo Cole
Hymn To St Cecilia...Benjamin Britten
Psalm 66: Jubilate Deo (first broadcast performance)...David Cox

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\by Monique Haas

by A.J. Marshall, D.Phil., D.sc., Reader in Zoology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of London

Reptiles rarely commend themselves to our notice, so it is somewhat of a surprise to find two books about them published simultaneously: The Reptile World by Clifford H. Pope, and Reptiles by Angus d'A.Bellairs. Dr. Marshall, who grew up in a snaky country, speaks about these zoologically interesting animals.

by Jean Anouilh
Translated by Christopher Fry
Adapted for broadcasting by Cynthia Pughe
[Starring] Monica Grey, Leon Quartermnine, Ronald Simpson and Malcolm Keen

During the interval (9.20-9.30 app.):
Ravel
Movements from Ma Mere l'Oye played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
(on gramophone records)

Suite: The Firebird played by the Sudwestfunk Orchestra
Conductor, Hans Rosbaud

by Murray Groves

Murray Groves, Research Fellow In Pacific History at the Australian National University, introduces the second of two programmes of recordings he made among the Motu peoples of New Guinea.