Book Z of the ' 48 ' Six Preludes and Fugues Nos. 1. 10.23. 18. 7. and 22 JAMES FRISKIN (piano) First of four programmes In whtch
James Friskin plays all Book 2 of the ' 48 '

Is a change inevitable?
Talk by HUGH THOMAS Second broadcast

Opera in three acts
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano
Music by Verdi presented by the Teatro San Carlo of Naples Cast in order of singing: Laura, a village girl
CHORUS AND Orchestra OF TEATRO SAN CARLO
Chorus-Master, Michele Lanro Leader, Aldo Ferraresi
Conductor, ALBERTO EREDE
Producer, Franco Enriquez
From the King's Theatre. Edinburgh
Act 1
See page 8

tLAURENCE KITCHIN discusses the influence of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio on the work of Chaucer
He argues that Chaucer's job as a travelling diplomat is very relevant both to the tone and the content of his Italian borrowings.
A reading from ' The Canterbury Tales ': Tuesday at 10.0

Act 2

PAUL MAYERSBERG discusses
Alfred Hitchcock 's new film The Birds in relation to the themes of violence and voyeurisme in his earlier work
He argues that the beak and the eye of the birds, their alternating bouts of aggression and passivity, are. clues to Hitchcock's manipulation of his audience's own psychology.

Act 3 followed by an interlude at 10.20*

Short story by Uco BETTI translated from the Italian by Michael Bullock Read by ROBERT RIETTY

played by MARGARET MAJOR
First of four programmes Including music by Hindemith
String Trio No. I played by the Oromonte Trio: Sept. 11