A short story by Lermontov.
Translated by R. Merton
Read by Paul Scofield.

This story forms part of Lermontov's semi-autobiographical novel A Hero of Our Time. The scene is the Caucasus, to which Lermontov was exiled after his incendiary poem on the death of Pushkin. The principal character, Pechorin, is a kind of clinical study of the Byronic hero-and so, in effect, of the author himself.
(BBC recording)
(Paul Schofield is in 'Expresso Bongo' at the Saville Theatre, London)

by J.I.M. Stewart ('Michael Innes').
(Recorded broadcast of April 2, 1953)

This is the third of six programmes by J.I.M. Stewart on Shakespearean themes. The remaining programmes, to be broadcast in the first three months of next year, are Nemesis at Wycombe Abbey, concerned with a late-night discussion between Dr. Johnson and Maurice Morgann, author of the famous essay on Falstaff; A Smack of Hamlet, in which Coleridge discovers in himself the idea of the irresolute Hamlet; and The Hawk and the Handsaw, in which Hamlet encounters a rationalising and pyschological interpretation of his predicament.

by Jan Jakub Ryba
(1765-1815)
Marie Tauberova (soprano)
Vera Krilova (contralto)
Jaroslav Hromadka (tenor)
Rudolf Vonasek (bass)
Czech Singers' Chorus
Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra
(organ, J. B. Krajs )
Conducted by Jan Ktihn on a gramophone record

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him, and without him was made nothing that was made.
A meditation for the Eve of the Feast of the Nativity by Dom Sebastian Moore , O.S.B.

Manoug Parikian (violin)
Kalmar Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Friedman )
Conducted by Walter Goehr