A programme of ceremonial and occasional music
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
John Whitworth (counter-tenor)
Gerald English (tenor)
Edgar Fleet (tenor)
Am Instrumental Ensemble
The Ambrosian Singers
Conductor, Denis Stevens
Programme devised by Denis Stevens
Introduced by Jeremy Noble

Living in the Middle East has brought DESMOND STEWART into contact with manyArab writers, not only established figures but the younger, more violent talents that have emerged since the Revolution. He describes the current Arab literary scene and gives his impressions of writers he has known.

Sonatas 1, 4, and 6 Last of three programmes in which PETER HURFORD plays the six sonatas with introductory talks by WALTER EMERY

A Melodrama for an Age of Prosperity
A verse play for radio based on Herodotus by Peter Gurney
Music by Humphrey Searle
Production by Raymond Raikes
ARGEJA, daughter of Polycrates (June Tobin); POLYCRATES, king of Samoa (Michael Hordern ); CITIZENS of Samos (Philip Cunningham. Hugh Dickson , Cabriel Woolf ); HERALD (John Hollis ); EGYPTIAN AMBASSADOR (Heron Carvic ); HERODOTUS, the historian (Charles Simon ); A CAPTAIN (John Humphry ); AMASIS, king of Egypt (Leon Quarlermaine ); THE RING (Diana Olssen ); MESSENGER (Jon Rollason ); A FISHERMAN (Douglas Storm); ANACREON, the singer and poet (Kenneth Dight ); LYDIAN AMBASSADOR (Hugh Manning ); OROETES, governor of Lydia (Malcolm. Hayes); Other Voices (members of the BBC Dratna Repertory Company)
Singers and the Sinfonia of London conducted by the composer
Polycrates' rule in Samos began c. 540 B.C.

by Geoffrey Marshall
Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford
A study of the sacred principle of Ministerial Responsibility

Part 2

by V. S. Pritchett
1-Czechoslovakia
In four talks Mr. Pritchett describes some impressions of his recent travels.