CAPRICCIO
A conversation-piece for music by Richard Strauss
Libretto by CLEMENS KRAUSS in the two-act version of the Bavarian State Opera sung in German
Cast in order of singing:
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Leader, Raymond Cohen Harpsichord continuo, Martin Isepp
Conducted by JOHN PRITCHARD
Producer, Gunther Rennert
Head of Music Staff. Jani Strasscr
The scene is laid in the saton of a chateau near Paris about 1775
Act 1
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An enquiry by W. E. J. MCCARTHY. Research Fellow in Industrial Relations, Nuffield College. Oxford
Even in industries where strikes are fairly common, some work places are more strike-prone than others. By taking as example two mines, one peaceful and the other in which problems result in strike action. W. E. J. McCarthy attempts to account for this uneven distribution of strikes.
Produced by RICHARD Thomas Second broadcast

A selection of unpublished poems chosen and introduced by Louis MACNEICE
Contributors include Thomas Blackburn Charles Causley
Peter Redgrove. W. R. Rodgers Anthony Thwaite
Terence Tiller , Vernon Watkins followed by an interlude at 7.15*

Act 2

There have always been many versions of English. Those loosely described as dialect usually have origins deeply rooted in the past and, often, a vocabulary and syntax of their own. But today new versions of English, indistinguishable from standard English when written but readily distinguishable when spoken, are developing overseas. A. C. Gimson , London University Department of Phonetics JOHN Bowen , novelist and critic
R. H. ROBINS , Reader in Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies
P. D. STREVENS, Professor of Contemporary English at Leeds discuss this phenomenon on the basis of some recorded examples

by Marguerite Duras, translated and adapted by Barbara Bray
with Ernest Milton and Sian Phillips
"There are moments, up there, of absolute light, in which everything stands out clearly - light which is at the same time polyvalent and precise, focusing fiercely on a single object..."
Second broadcast