Harp Concerto in E minor played by NICANOR ZABALETA (harp) with the BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA conducted by ERNST MÄRZENDORFER on a gramophone record

LAURENCE 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.
Second broadcast
The Nun's Priest's Tale: September 10

by Alan Gosling with HILARY HARDIMAN as The Woman
ISABEL RENNIE as The Nurse ROGER SWAINE as The Man
I Visiting Time, ladies! Sit up and smile. Don'let your hubbies sit on the beds. for chairs are provided. There's good girls.'
Produced by JOHN GIBSON
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Opera in three acts after Dostoevsky by Leod Janacek sung in the original Czech
From the King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Cast in order of singing:
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE, PRAGUE
Chorus-Master, Milan Maly
Conducted by Bohumil GREGOR Produced by LADISLAV STROS
The action takes place in a Siberian prison camp on the banks of the river Irtish.
ACT 1
The courtyard: early morning
A synopsis of the action by Arthur Jacobs is printed in ' The Listener ' dated September 3

A series of five programmes in which Londoners in various trades and professions talk about their lives and opinions.
4: Anton Wallich-Clifford, Probation Officer
Introduced by PHILIP O'CONNOR
Produced by DAVID THOMSON
Second broadcast

Act 2
On the banks of the river; summer

Second of two talks by THEO. S. BURRELL a British town planner who has worked for some months in the Planning Department of the city of Raleigh, North Carolina
In the United States, says Mr. Burrell, environment is viewed not through rose-coloured spectacles but through a tinted windscreen.

ACT 3
Scene 1: The prison hospital
Scene 2: The courtyard

† by HAROLD TRUSCOTT
The third of six illustrated talks by Harold Truscott in which he analyses and discusses the late quartets
In this programme he talks about the String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
Op. 130: October 11

played by STEVEN STARYK
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