This week's programme comes
From Rome
TOPAZIA ALI.IATA talks about some recent developments in Italian group painting
ALBERTO ARBASINO discusses the Italian writer and the cinema
WILLIAM WEAVER comments on current trends in Italian music Introduced by GEORGE MACBETH

PARRENIN STRING QUARTET Jacques Parrenin (violin)
Marcel Charpentier (violin) Michel Wales (viola)
Pierre Penassou (cello)
SCHOLA POLYPHONICA
Director, HENRY WASHINGTON
The Antiphons of Our Lady: first performance in this country

by CANON HENRY CNADWICK
Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford
Professor Chadwick examines some of the contentions of the Rev. A. Q. Morton that stylistic criteria, as measured by computer, only allow five Epistles to be regarded as genuine.

Part 2
Five movements, Op. 5Webern Mass: Aeterna Christ! munera
Palestrina
Given before an Invited audience in the Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, London. Applications for tickets. enclosing a stamped addressed envelope, should be sent to [address removed].
Poulenc, Figure humaine (John Alldis Choir); Trios by Beethoven, Op. 9 No. 2, and Mozart (Italian String Trio)

An Old Woman's ReflectionM translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis edited for broadcasting by W. R. Rodgers Read by Mary O'Farrell
The last of four readings

Sonata No. 3, Op. 36 played by NORMAN SHETLER (piano) Second broadcast followed by interlude at 10.53

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