by Luigi Pirandello
Translated by Edward Eager
Adapted for broadcasting by Helena Wood
Music composed and conducted by Alan Paul and played by a clarinet and string quartet (led by Max Jaffa)
Production by Val Gielgud

(' Mary of Alexandria ') An opera in three acts and four scenes
Libretto by Cesare Meano
Music by Ghedini
(sung in Italian)
Shepherds: Adele Sticchi ,
Rosanna Lari , Aldo Bertocci , Fernando Valentini , and Cristiano Dalamangas
Chorus and Orchestra of Radiotelevisione Italiana , Milan
(Chorus-Master, Roberto Benaglio )
Conducted BY ALFREDO SIMONETTO
(Continued in next column)
The action takes place in the fourth century
Act 1
By the lighthouse of Alexandria. Night

A monthly review of current questions in architecture and planning.
The Case for a Theory of Modern Architecture by John Summerson C.B.E., A.R.I.B.A., Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum.
Is there a basis of principle applicable to modern architecture? Mr. Summerson reviews the modern architectural theories since Alberti, with particular reference to this century, and speculates upon the nature of the gulf which he believes is fixed between theory and practice.
A broadcast version of a recent address to the Royal Institute of British Architects.
To be repeated on July 23

Acr 2
Scene li On board ship in the Egyptian sea
Scene 2: On board ship later. Night

1917-1955
Edwin Morgan talks about the recent book by Jack Lindsay
Since the Revolution, Soviet verse has paralleled almost every modern movement with which we are familiar in the West, although its more recent history has been chiefly influenced by the controversial doctrine of Socialist Realism. Mr. Morgan attempts to evaluate the merits, as well as the more frequently stressed defects, of this doctrine, which he claims helped to create an excellent war poetry in the 1940s.

ACT 3: The coast of Galilee. Dawn

Programme devised and narrated by A. Hyatt King and based on material in his book
Mozart in Retrospect
Readers:
Brewster Mason and John Bryning
(The recorded broadcast of April 19)

Quartet in D, Op. 44 No. 1 played by the Amici String Quartet:
Lionel Bentlev , Marta Eitler
Harold Harriott , Joy Hall
(The recorded broadcast of April 29)