John Carol Case (baritone) Frederick Stone (piano)

Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
12: The Killing of the Wooers BOOK XXII
Translated by Hugh Gordon Porteus
Read by Patrick Garland
Recognition by Penelope BOOK XXIII
Translated by Peter Green
Read by Gary Watson
Series devised by Louis MacNeice Produced by Anthony Thwaite

Eileen Broster Carlina Carr
Susan Tunnell pianos
Welbeck String Orchestra Leader, Vera Kantrovitch
Conductor, Maurice Miles
Part 1

by Alec Nove
Reader in Russian
Social and Economic Studies in the University of London
Following the British Trade Fair held in Moscow recently, Alec Nove speaks about the difficulties of expanding this trade faster.

Part 2

by JEAN COCTEAU
with Coral Browne as Jocasta, Albert Finney as Oedipus and Miles Malleson, Catherine Dolan, Heron Carvic
English version by CARL WILDMAN edited for radio in collaboration with H. B. Fortuin
Music by TRISTRAM CARY
' Listener, wound up here to the full so that the spring will slowly unwind the whole length of a human life, is one of the most perfect machines constructed by the infernal gods for the mathematical destruction of a human being.*
How Oedipus solves the riddle of the Sphinx and, through parricide and incest, is made to face human destiny in a world which could be ancient Greece or modern Europe.
Characters in order of speaking
Music with special effects by the Radiophonic Workshop conducted by the composer
Production by H. B. FORTUIN
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.26-9.35 app.) Movements from Andre Jolivet 's Delphic Suite played by an instrumental ensemble directed by the composer on a gramophone record

String Quartet No. 3 played by the Guilet String Quartet Daniel Guilet (violin) Henry Siegl (violin)
William Schoen (viola) David Soyer (cello) on a gramophone record