An opera in five acts by Serge Prokofiev
English translation by Dennis Arundell
BBC Chorus
(trained by Alan G. Melville )
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
(Leader. Steven Staryk )
CONDUCTED BY STANFORD ROBINSON
Producer. Dennis Arundell
(first English broadcast performance in this country)
Scene: Sixteenth-century Germany
Act 1: An attic in a poor lodging-house
ACT 2
Scene 1: A room overlooking Cologne's partially built Cathedral
Scene 2: Agrippa's laboratory

BORIS GUSSMAN, anthropologist and industrial welfare consultant, has been studying trade unionism among Africans in the Federation and East Africa. He believes that divisions and disputes are bound to increase disastrously for industry as a whole unless employers, in particular, make certain radical, but practicable, changes.

Act 3
Scene 1: In front of a rich house in Cologne Scene 2: On the banks of the Rhine
Act 4: A beer-garden in Cologne

Australian and Standard English
NEIL BURGESS , an Australian educationist and phonetician visiting this country, gives his reactions to the differing ways in which Englishmen and Australians speak the same language.
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 3)

ACT 5: A vaulted crypt in a convent