An opera in three acts
Libretto adapted from Sardou's drama by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa Music by Puccini sung in Italian
Cast in order of singing:
COVENT GARDEN OPERA CHORUS Chorus-Master,
Douglas Robinson
COVENT GARDEN ORCHESTRA Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by CARLO FELICE CILLARIO
Act 1: The church of Sant' Andrea della VaUe in Rome: June 1800

Polish culture in the mid-sixties
† by DERWENT MAY
Mr. May, who recently returned after four years' teachinn in Poland, describes its cultural background, very different from that of other countries behind the Iron Curtain.
Four contemporaru Polish plays are to be broadcast in the Third Programme during the first quarter of the year, beginning next week

Act 2: Scarpia's private apart* ment in the Palazzo Farnese

by ALISTAIR G. MACGREGOR
Regius Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the University of Aberdeen At the beginning of this month the first voluntary drux control scheme in the world, organised by the Dunlop Committee of Drug Safety, began testing new drugs produced by the pharmaceutical industry. In this shortened version of a Bloch Lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, Professor MacgreKor analyses some of the scientific, medical, and economic aspects involved in drug production and testing.

Act 3: Castel Sant' Angelo

A review of recently published books of verse by Patricia Beer
Ted Hughes
Laurence Lerner
Peter Redgrove Jon Stallworthy R. S. Thomas
Introduced by DONALD HALL with poems read by Hugh Dickson , Anthony Jacobs Penelope Lee

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