An unfinished opera in two parts
(sung in German)
:
The narration linking the musical numbers spoken by Marjorie Westbury
BBC Scottish Orchestra
(Leader. J. Mouland Begbie )
CONDUCTED BY COLIN DAVIS
Producer, David Harris
The action takes place in the gardens and palace of the Sultan Soliman ,
PART 1

by Max Beloff
Gladstone Professor of Government and Public Administration In the University of Oxford
Professor Beloff reconstructs the probable shape and content of Alexis de Tocqueville's unwritten book on England. He bases his conjectures on the recently published notes of de Tocqueville's travels in England and Ireland in the 1830s,

PART 2

A discussion among scientists
The Origins of Life
Assuming the organic arose from the inorganic when the world was young, what are the possible and probable steps by which the synthesis took place?
Chairman:
J. D. Bernal, F.R.S. Professor of Physics.
Birkbeck College, London
Panel:
P. D. Mitchell, Ph.D., F.R.P.S .
Zoology Department,
University of Edinburgh
L. E. Orgel, Ph.D.
University Chemical Laboratory,
Cambridge
N. W. Pirie, F.R.S.
Head of Biochemistry Department,
Rothamsted Experimental Station and R. L. M. Synge, F.R.S.
Rowett Research Institute, Bucksburn. Aberdeenshire