by J. 1. M. Stewart ('Michael Innes ')
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
This is the fourth of six programmes by J. I. M. Stewart on Shakespearean themes.

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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 set in the Caucasus, to which Lermontov was exiled for political reasons.

Part 1

Simon Bolivar by R. A. Humphreys
Professor of Latin-American History in the University of London
Bolivar discovered and defimed his principles in revolutionary France, his motives and purposes in the Spanish empire of southern America. Professor Humphreys discusses these purposes and ideas.

Part 2

Andrew Porter talks about Prokofiev's opera, finished in 1925 but only once publicly performed
Illustrations from gramophone records

Selected passages from De Rerum Natura newly translated into English verse and introduced by Professor A.D. Winspear of the University of Alberta
Reader, Valentine Dyall