Opera in four acts
Libretto by Boito
Music by VERDI on gramophone records
Cast in order of singing (in Italian)
Chorus and N.B.C. SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Conducted by ARTURO TOSCANINI
The action takes place at a seaport in Cyprus towards the end of the fifteenth century.
Acr I: Outside the castle
Acr 2: A hall in the castle

by Roland Berger
The British Trade Fair in Moscow, the largest ever held there, has been promoted not by the-British Government but by British industry. Mr. Berger, who is closely concerned with the problems of East-West trade, contrasts the enterprise shown by British businessmen in developing this trade with the apparent lack of official British enthusiasm for it, and calls for a new government attitude towards the markets for British exports in the Soviet bloc which could be ours for the taking.

ACT 3: The great hall of the casttt ACT4: Desdemona's bedroom

by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Eight weekly readings from the poem
In a conflated text of the 1805 and 1850 versions arranged by H. S. TAYLOR
Read by the Cumbrian poet Norman Nicholson
5: Residence in London
Produced by Anthony Thwaite
Sixth reading: June 5