by Tom Kent
Editor, Winnipeg Free Press
In pronouncing a valediction on Canada's twenty-two unbroken years ot Liberal federal government, Mr. Kent describes the new face of Canadian conservatism and analyses the forces which have combined to put the Progressive Conservatives into office.

Trio No. 1, in B, Op. 8 played by Isaac Stern (violin) Pablo Casals (cello)
Myra Hess (piano)
A gramophone record of a public performance at the 1952 Prades Festival

by Sigurdur Nordal
Icelandic Ambassador to Denmark and Research Professor at the University of Iceland
Professor Nordal speaks about the spiritual values of our pagan ancestors, of which Icelandic literature preserves almost the sole record. He refers in particular to the expression of these values in the Njal Saga, which W. P. Ker described as the medieval swan-song of the old spirit of the Germanic race.

ORCHESTRAL CONCERT
Halle Orchestra
(Leader, Laurance Turner )
Conductor, Sir John Barbirolli
From the Town Hall, Cheltenham
Part 1

by Peter Clarke
Reader, Leonard Sachs
Mr. Clarke is a Cape Coloured writer who works in the docks at Simonstown. This story recalls childhood pleasures crowded into ' breaks ' from a mission school in Cape Town.

Part 2

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' Pelleas et Melisande *
An illustrated study in the origins of Debussy's opera by Hanns Hammelmann and Michael Rose
In scenes from Maeterlinck's play
' PELLEAS ET MELISANDE':
Others taking part:
Dorothy Black. John Bryning
Joan Hart , Ian Lubbock Piano illustrations by Antony Hopkins
The main musical illustrations of the opera are from recorded performances conducted by Ernest Ansermet , with Suzanne Danco as Melisande; in addition, the song of Melisande sung by Mary Garden , accompanied by the composer, Claude Debussy.
Produced by Christopher Sykea

Raga basant mukhari Dhun played by Ravi Shankar (sitar)
Chatur Lal (tabla)
N. C. Mullick (tampura)

Talk by Elizabeth Zeeman
(The recorded broadcast of Feb. 17)