AEOLIAN String QUARTET
Sydney Humphreys (violin) Raymond Keenlyside (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) Derek Simpson (cello)
The last of six programmes including Bartok's String Quartets and Haydn's Op. 50

A romance for radio by Colin Finbow
A boy and a girl are celebrating their engagement in a cafe, the scene of their first outing a year ago.
Produced by Charles Lefeaux
Third broadcast
(Alec McCowen broadcasts by permission of the Royal Shakespeare Company)

An opera in three acts
Text by Maurice Maeterlinck
Music by Paul Dukas
Sung in French
Cast in order of singing:

Crowd of peasants
BBC Scottish Choral Society
Chorus-Master, Bernard Keeffe
BBC Scottish Orchestra
Leader, Trevor Williams
Conductor, Norman Del Mar
Producer, Bernard Keeffe
Act 1
A large hall in Bluebeard's castle

by Neville Moray
Lecturer in Psychology at Sheffield University
Arthur Koestler, in the first of his recent broadcast talks on The Art of Creation, chose to attack modern academic psychology. Dr Moray likens this attack to boxing with shadows on a cave wall; and he prefers the sunshine outside.

Act 2
A subterranean hall in the castle

A selection from his translation of the 'Amores' of Ovid
Read and introduced by Denis Goacher

Act 3
A large hall in Bluebeard's castle
Joseph Rouleau broadcasts by permission of the General Administrator, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Ltd, Elizabeth Robson by permission of Sadler's Wells Opera Company

A monthly programme in which different interpretations on gramophone records are compared.
Roger Fiske talks about Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor played by Askenase, Czerny-Stefanska, Pollini, Rubinstein, and others.