String Quartet No. 4 played by the Juilliard String Quartet on a gramophone record
Fourth of a series of programmes including all Bartok's string quartets. Quartet No. 5: May 14

by IONA OPIE
and PETER OPIE
A series of four programmes showing how present-day children unwittingly keep alive the language, jokes, customs, and beliefs of previous centuries.
2: Children's Humour
Recordings from different parts of England and Wales collected by Stewart Wavell Iona and Peter Opie and Sasha Moorsom
Narrated by Peter Opie
Produced by Sasha Moorsom

A tragic opera in three acts Libretto by Felice Romani
Music by Bellini
Cast
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF LA SCALA, MILAN
CONDUCTED BY ANTONINO VOTTO
Producer. Franco Enriquez
SCENE: Castle of Binasco in the year 1418.
Acr I , Scene 1: A courtyard in the castle. Scene 2: Agnese's apartment.
Scene 3: A grove in the gardens.
Scene 4: A remote part of the castle.
ACT 2: A gallery in the castle
ACT 3: A subterranean vault leading to the castle dungeons.
Front La Scala, Milan
Relayed by courtesy of Radiotelevisione Italiana

DURING THE FIRST INTERVAL
Gordon Craig in Moscow, 1911
A conversation with David Tutaev about Craig's production, with Stanislavsky, of Hamlet at the Moscow Art Theatre
Recording: third broadcast

DURING THE SECOND INTERVAL
English Poems by Charles d'Orleans (1391-1465)
A selection made and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall read by Alan Wheatley