An opera in a prologue and three acts by VERDI
Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave , revised by Arrigo Boito
In the Prologue
In the Drama
Soldiers, sailors, citizens, senators, and the Doge's followers
VIENNA STATE OPERA CHORUS
VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by GIANANDREA GAVAZZENI Producer, Herbert Graf
The action takes place in Genoa In the middle of the fourteenth century
PROLOGUE: a square in Genoa
ACT 1, Scene 1: The garden of the Grimaldi palace, twenty-five years later Scene 2: The Doge's Council Chamber

DONALD MACRAE , Reader in Sociology in the University of London, believes that Britain has lost her position and self-confidence in relation to her own past. He suggests that the explanation of this decline is not to be found merely in the economic and technical aspects of our life; rather is it to be explained as the consequence of ideas and values which were the myths of an age that could afford not to face social reality.

ACT 2: The Doge's room in the palace ACT 3: Inside the palace
This recording of a performance given at this year's Salzburg Festival has been made available by courtesy of Osterreichischer Rundfunk

A series of talks commenting on current legal issues
Automatism by Rupert Cross
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
How far is automatism a defence to a criminal charge? And can it really be distinguished from a plea of insanity? Dr. Cross considers these questions in his talk and he refers to an important decision last month of the House of Lords.

Nekrassov byi Jean-Paul SARTRE translated by Sylvia Leeson and George Leeson with Hugh Burden
Denys Blakelock and Juliet Cooke
Cast in order of speaking:
Continued in next column
Other parts played by members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company Produced by R. D. SMITH
: second broadcast Juliet Cooke is in * Billy Liar ' at tht Cambridge Theatre, London
DURING THE INTERVAL
9.20-9.30 app.
Divertimento (Jean Francaix ) played by Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute)
Robert Veyron-Lacroix (piano) on a gramophone record

Partita in D minor played by Wilfred Lehmann (violin)
Fourth of five programmes Including Bach's six works for unaccompanied violin