An opera in three acts Music by Gluck
Libretto by Bailli du Rollet
English version by Arthur Jacobs
Cast
Greeks, soldiers, Thessalian warriors. women of Argos and Aulis. slaves from Lesbos, priestesses of Diana
BBC CHORUS Trained by Alan G. Melville
BBC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Leader, Paul Beard
Conductor, Rudolf SCHWARZ
The action takes place at Aulis in ancient times
Act 1: The Greek camp

Called' The Faultless Painter'
A monologue by ROBERT BROWNING
Read by Marius Goring
: second broadcast

Act 2: The portico of Agamemnon's palace

CONSTANTINE FITZGIBBON Speaks on the discontent of the English intellectual with most political persuasions today. Mr. Fitzgibbon does not claim his talk is the first word on a subject that has been ponderously described as the alienation of the intellectual; it certainly does not aspire to be the last.

Acr 3: Scene 1: The interior of a tent
Scene 2: Before the altar of Diana on the seashore
Previously broadcast on July 9
Elizabeth Fretwell and Raimund Herincx broadcast by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company; David Ward broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ltd. followed by an interlude at 8.20

by HENRY DE MONTHERLANT translated by Robert Baldick with Stephen Murray and Jill Bennett
Written for the Comedie Francaise during the German Occupation, Queen in Death is in part a study of the uses and abuses of power (which, fortunately for the author, was completely misunderstood by the Gestapo), but also a study of the ambiguity and frailty of human nature when confronted by a conflict of good and evil. The action is set in Portugal in a Renaissance period.
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by Charles Lefeaux
: second broadcast
DURING the INTERVAL (9.15-9.25 app.) Two movements from Respighi's First Suite of Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute played by Philharmonia Hungarica conducted by Antal Dorati on a gramophone record