Quintet in A, Op. 18
Octet in E flat, Op. 20
Aeolian String Quartet: Sydney Humphreys (violin)
Trevor Williams (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello) with Raymond Keenlyside (violin)
Kelly Isaacs (violin)
Gwynne Edwards (viola)
John Moore (cello)

by Stevie Smith
followed by an interlude at 7.35

A lyric drama in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni
Music by Puccini
Chorus and Orchestra of Radiotelevisione Italiana, Milan
(Chorus-Master, Giulio Bertola)
Conducted BY FERNANDO PREVITALI
Scene: Peking in legendary times
ACT I
Outside the walls of the imperial palace

by the Rev. Basil Minchin
Ihad heard that the bath ... drives anxiety from the mind. I bathed, but was the same man as before.
(ST. AUGUSTINE)
Basil Minchin recently visited the remains of a ' basilica ' at Ostia, the port of Rome. He remembered that St. Augustine and his mother, St. Monica, had visited the place and that she had died there. What did the church look like at that time? Mr. Minchin follows his clues to a conclusion not found in any guide-book.

Act 2
Scene 1: A pavilion in the palace
Scene 2: The square outside the palace

by Francis Watson
Francis Watson , for whom the mountain ramparts of Central Asia have a particular fascination, considers what it was that in 1819 drove William Moorcroft , veterinary surgeon, on a five-year journey from India through unexplored Ladakh, Kashmir, Afghanistan, and Turkestan to Bokhara, ending with his still-mysterious death.

Act 3
Scene 1: The palace gardens, near Turandot's apartment
Scene 2: Outside the palace

Story by Heinrich Boll
Translated by Richard Graves
Read by Gilbert Harding
This is a story about a radio talks producer, deeply depressed by his environment, and about the way he found comfort.
(: fourth broadcast)