Excerpts from
Mussorgsky's unfinished opera on gramophone records
Presented by Gerald Abraham
Chorus and Orchestra of the SLOVENIAN NATIONAL OPERA
Ljubljana
Conducted by Samo Hubad

Readings from recent volumes of verse
Introduced by Bernard Bergonzl The chief literary event of the last few months has been the publication, in America, of Wallace Stevens's Opus Posthumous.
The other books Mr. Bergonzi talks about are The Triumph of the Muse by John Heath-Stubbs, Poetry for Supper by R. S. Thomas, To Whom It May Concern by Alan Ross, and A Beginnin, by Dom Moraes.
Readers:
Denis McCarthy and Gary Watson

This recital of choral preludes compares the treatment of three chorals by Bach and by two of his contemporaries, Georg Friedrich Kaufmann (1679-1735) and Friedrich Wilhelm Zachau (1663-1712)
Komra, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott
(S.651)
Vom Himmel hoch da komm' ich her
(S.700)
Allein Gott in der Hon' sei Ehr'
(S.711) played by David Willcocks (organ)

by Michael Howard
Lecturer in War Studies at King's College, London
How * secure ' can any nation ever be? Can a state be armed for defence without appearing to threaten its neighbours? Does not the quest for absolute security lead inevitably to the very insecurity it is trying to avoid? Mr. Howard considers these problems in the light of some historical examples.

Quartet in E, Op. 80 played by the London String Quartet