('Morte dell' aria')
A tragedy in one act
Words by Toti Scialoja
English version by Bernard Keeffe
Music by Petrassi
A section of the Glyndebourne Festival Chorus (women's voices) (Chorus-Master, Peter Gellhorn)
Kalmar Chamber Orchestra (Leader, Leonard Friedman)
Conducted by Norman del Mar

(BBC recording: second broadcast)
(See also 9.0pm)

by A. G. Lehmann
A big retrospective exhibition of Surrealism has just opened in Paris, its theme eroticism. A. G. Lehmann , a student of modern French poetry, examines the question of how far French Surrealism has renewed itself and how far a tradition has been established.

An opera in one act
Words by Isaac Bickerstaffe
Music by Charles Dibdin
Edited and partly orchestrated by Roger Fiske
Peter Gellhorn (harpsichord continuo)
Kalmar Chamber Orchestra (Leader, Leonard Friedman)
Conducted by Norman del Mar
(BBC recording: second broadcast)

A conversation between the Rt. Hon. John Strachey , M.P. and Michael Edwardes
In his recent book The End of Empire John Strachey examined the British conquest of India at the end of the eighteenth century, and the second wave of imperialist expansion between the years 1870 and 1914; and the reverse process of imperial dissolution since 1945, with the resultant need for a new relationship ' in the place of empire ' between the ex-imperial powers and the peoples formerly under their rule.
He discusses these themes with Michael Edwardes , who is working on a study of imperialism and its aftermath in Asia.

Ralph Kirkpatrick (clavichord) George Malcolm (harpsichord)
Geraint Jones (organ)
French Suite No.6, In G Partita No. 6, In G
Toccata and Fugue In D minor
(Dorian)
(: the last Item was recorded in St. Peter's Italian Church, Clerkenwell Road, London)
The fifth of six programmes including Bach's six Partitas and French Suites.