A sacred festival drama by Richard Wagner
(sung in German)

Act I
In the Grail's domain
The hall of the Grail castle

(Joan Chissell writes on page 6)

by Kenneth Jackson, Professor of Celtic Language in the University of Edinburgh

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.

Act 2
Klingsor's enchanted castle and garden

A selection of recent verse

Including contributions from Elizabeth Jennings, Iain Fletcher, Jon Silkin, Christopher Middleton, Peter Redgrove, Ann Jacobs, James Rubadiri, Ted Hughes who read their own poems

Act 3
In the Grail's domain
The hall of the Grail castle

A talk by Arthur Waley on some strange relations between Chinese actors and the world of the dead.

Quartet No. 8, in D (D.94)
played by the Lyra String Quartet: Granville Casey, John Crossan, John Linn, John McInulty