Falstaff
An. illustrated study in the origins of Verdi's opera by HANNS HAMMELMANN and MICHAEL ROSE
Readings bv Bettv Hardy
Neville Hartley , Philip Morant John Sharp , Martin Starkie Narration by John Glen
Musical illustrations from records of 'Otello and 'Falstaff ' conducted by Arturo Toscanini
Production by CHRISTOPHER SYKES
: new production of programme first broadcast in 1955

The Riddick String Orchestra Leader, Vera Kantrovitch
Conductor, Kathleen Riddick

by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Eight weekly readings from the poem drawn from the 1805 and 1850 texts and shortened by H. S. Taylor
Read by the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson
2: Childhood and Youth
Produced by Anthony Thwatte

Dorothy Dorow (soprano)
Richard Rodney Bennett (piano)
The songs by Schoenberg, Bennett Musgrave , and Thea Musgrave are receiving their first broadcast performance in this country.