Suzanne Rozsa (violin)
BBC Northern Orchestra
Leader. Reginald Stead
Conductor, George Hurst

Act 2 of La Machine Infernale by JEAN COCTEAU with an introduction by the author with Maria Casares
The Meeting of Oedipus and the Sphinx was the original play round which were created the other phases of La Machine Infernale, the four-act play on the Oedipus story, first produced by Louis Jouvet in Paris in 1934. An English version by Carl Wildman was broadcast recently.
Characters in order of speaking
Production by CARL WILDMAN Recorded for the BBC in the UNESCO Studios, Paris
: second broadcast

Teresa Berganza mezzo-soprano Felix Lavilla piano
Part, 1
OPERATIC ARIAS
Recorded in the Royal Festival Hall at a public recital last June

Short story by Ted Hughes
Read by the author
It is the end of the harvesting. A man holds a gun. There is a hare hidden in the dwindling area of uncut wheat.

Part 2
SPANISH SONGS

by Maurice Shock
Fellow of University College, Oxford
Is Britain's two-party political system Inviolable? Or has a third party a chance --either of achieving power or at least of helping to oust a government it opposes? These are some of the questions with which Maurice Shock grapples in his talk, which arises from the recently published book by Sir Ivor Jennings , Party Politics, Volume 1: Appeal to the People.

Trio di Trieste
Renato Zanettovich (violin) Libero Lano (cello)
Dario de Rosa (piano)
Variations in E flat, Op. 44
(Beethoven)
Trio in B flat (Schubert) on a gramophone record

A Venetian Story by LORD BYRON
Arranged by D. G. Bridson Read by Robert Eddison
: second broadcast