by August Strindberg
Adapted for broadcasting by Max Faber from his English version
[Starring] Jack Hawkins and Googie Withers

The play is set in the sitting-room of the captain's house on the outskirts of a Swedish town during two consecutive winter evenings at the end of the last century.

Comic opera in one act
Libretto by F.K. Hiemer
English version by David Harris
Music by Weber
Cast in order of singing:
BBC Midland Chorus
BBC Midland Orchestra
(Leader, James Hutcheon)
Conducted BY Leo Wurmser
Produced by C. Denis Freeman

Scene: Abu Hassan's apartment in the precincts of the royal palace at Baghdad. (Another performance: Monday at 8.30)

by L.R. Palmer, Professor of Comparative Philology in the University of Oxford
A group of programmes about their impact on the ancient world

Much controversy still persists about our Indo-European ancestors, their origins, dispersal, and the character of the various societies they founded. New light has been shed on these questions in recent years through linguistic studies and archaeological field-work.

The Haydn Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Friedman )
Conductor, Harry Newstone
Symphony No. 47, in G
Sinfonia Concertante, in B flat
(oboe, Peter Graeme; bassoon, Joseph Castaldini; violin, Leonard Friedman; cello, Joy Hall)
Symphony No. 86, in D

The first of two talks by Frank Kermode

The seventeenth-century 'dissociation of sensibility... from which we have never recovered' (in T.S. Eliot's successful formulation) should be seen, Mr. Kermode suggests, as a local variant of the doctrine of the Renaissance as a great spiritual disaster. 'The myth of catastrophe,' he argues, 'was imposed upon English literature not after a dispassionate survey of the facts but in order to satisfy certain needs that became urgent in the nineteenth century'.

(The recorded broadcast of Oct. 27)

by Alexander Pope
Read by V.C. Clinton-Baddeley

A sequence of poems illustrating the part played by the great house in English life and the obligations of ownership.

London String Quartet