(piano)

ALAN DAY suggests that the United Kingdom should make up its mind whether it wishes to be fully associated with a European customs union, with all its political implications, or remain on the outside looking in. He maintains that a halfway-house position is unrealistic.

Musica da Camera:
Harold Clarke
(flute, bass flute, and piccolo)
Roger Lord (oboe and cor anglais)
Vera Kantrovitch (violin)
Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
Joy Hall (cello)
John Williams (guitar) with Bernard Keeffe (speaker)

Written by a court lady of eleventh-century Japan
Translated and adapted for broadcasting by Geoffrey Bownas
The music composed and played by Yuize Shinichi (koto)
Produced by Terence Tiller with Judy Bailey. Olive Gregg , Oliver Burt
Denis Goacher , Carleton Hobbs

by Anton Chekhov
Translated by Nora Gottlieb Read by Peter Woodthorpe
* Bakhromkin, a civil engineer, was sitting In front of his desk at home and, being at a loose end, found himself sinking into a melancholy frame of mind.' It was at this moment that Chekhov's hero made his revolutionary discovery ... about himself.

Part 2
(Heather Harper broadcasts by permission of Glyndebourne Festival Opera)

The last of three programmes selected and introduced by Vivian de Sola Pinto
3—' Sweetness in the Numbers '
Readers:
Marius Goring , Richard Bebb and Margaret Wolflt
Produced by D. G. Bridson