Quartet in C, Op. 59 No. 3 (Rasumovsky) played by the Smetana String Quartet Jiri Novak (violin)
Lubomir Kostecky (violin) Milan Skampa (viola) Antonin Kohout (cello)

An analysis in French by Pierre Mendes-France introduced by Martin Harrison
Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford M. Pierre Mendes-France , perhaps the best known of French Prime Ministers since the war, recently made a public analysis of why he thinks France is facing one of the worst crises in her history, why France is perhaps on the brink of a civil war.
His statement, edited for broadcasting, is introduced by Martin Harrison , who is himself a student of French politics and co-author of De Gaulle's Republic.

A romance in commonplace by Louis MACNEICE
Michael Aldridge Mary. Wimbush
HaroldLang Christine. Finn in a new production of the programme first broadcast in 1952 Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Production by Louis MacNeice

Hazel Schmid (soprano)
Nancy Thomas (contralto) Philip Todd (tenor)
Roger Stalman (bass)
Maria Korchinska (harp)
Leslie Pearson (organ)
London Orpheus Choir
Conductor, James Gaddarn
From St. Gabriel's Church. Cricklewood