Symphony No. 88, in G major
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Conducted by WILHELM FURTWANGLER on a gramophone record

A parable for radio by ALAN SHARP with music composed and played by RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT with Robert Baird. Isla Cameron
Michael Deacon , Yvonne Gillan Alex McCrindle , David McKail Colin Miller , Audrey Muir William Simpson Alan Thompson
Denis McCarthy (percussion)
Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Production by CHRISTOPHER HOLME
Second broadcast followed by interlude at 6.55

Music drama in five acts
Music by Mussorgsky
Version by Shostakovich Libretto by the composer
Translated by Petar Konjovic presented by The Belgrade Opera sung in Serbian
Producer. Mladen Sabljic
CHORUS, ORCHESTRA, and BALLET OF THE BELGRADE OPERA
Chorus-Master. Slobodan Krstic
Conducted by DUSAN MILADINOVIC
From the King's Theatre, Edinburgh
Act 1: Moscow, Red Square
Act 2: A reception room in the palace of Prince Galitzin
Act 3: Moscow, the Streltsy quarter

by T. G. ROSENTHAL
Mr. Rosenthal considers the painting of Strindberg, Lorca, D. H. Lawrence , and Henry Miller from the viewpoint of its relationship to their writing

Act 4: Scene 1: The banqueting room in the palace of Prince Ivan Khovansky

A short story by HEINRICH BÖLL
Translated from the German by RICHARD GRAVES
Read by GILBERT HARDING
Third broadcast

Act 4: Scene 2: Outside the cathedral of St. Basil in Red Square
Act 5: A pine forest: the hermitage of the Old Believers

by M. I. FINLEY
Fellow of Jesus College. Cambridge who discusses the myth of Sparta's moral and military superiority to other Greek city-states.
Second broadcast