A lyric tragedy in five acts and a prologue by RAMEAU
Words by the Abbé Pellegrin sung in French
Nymphs, priestesses and attendants of Diane, inhabitants of the forest, infernal spirits, sailors, hunters, and shepherds
London Chamber Singers
London Chamber Orchestra (Leader, Lionel Bentley )
Colin Tilney (harpsichord continuo) John Shinebourne (cello continuo) Conductor, ANTHONY BERNARD
The action takes place in the forest of Erymanthe, at Trezene, in the infernal regions, and in the forest of Aricie.
PROLOGUE: The forest of Erymanthe
ACT I : The Temple of Diane

by Karen Blixen
The well-known Danish writer, author of Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa, and other works, resds a further extract from her Shadows on the Grass.
This book, which has an African setting, recalls Karen Blixen 's by now legendary existence on her coffee farm in Kenya more than forty years ago.
The reading was recorded in her country home in Denmark
Recording by courtesy of Danmarks Radio: second broadcast

ACT 2 : The entrance to Hades
ACT 3: The palace of Thesee overlooking the sea

Six talks on David Hume
1: Hume in English Philosophy by Stuart Hampshire , Professor of Philosophy in the University of London
Professor Hampshire discusses the similarities and dissimilarities between Hume's approach to philosophy and that of contemporary analytical philosophers.

ACT 4: A wood sacred to Diane ACT 5: Scene I: The same
Scene 2: The garden avenues of the forest of Aricie

by RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN with Fay Compton
Baliol Holloway
Fenella Fielding, Gwen Cherrel ) Hugh Burden , Anthony Jacobs
Cast in order of speaking:
Other parts played by Anne Prime , Leigh Crutchley , Norman Wynne Produced by R. D. SMITH
: second broadcast

piano playing a selection of Brahms's Variations on a theme of Paganini on a gramophone record