Program Preview

For seven days, beginning Sunday, Aug. 4. (All times are E.D.S.T.)

The Eternal Light (Sun. 11 a.m., NBC). A half-hour adaptation of Racine's religious Athalie.

Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). "The Chinese Civil War." Speakers: Harley F. MacNair, educator-author (The Real Conflict between China and Japan); Gunther Stein, foreign correspondent-author (The Challenge of Red China).

CBS Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Kabalevsky's First Piano Concerto, Pianist Vera Brodsky as soloist; Haydn's Symphony No. 95 in C Minor.

Columbia Workshop (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). Two short, dramatized essays: Comfort by Workshop Director Bob Landry, Laughter by Gladys Milliner.

NBC Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Four dances from Frederick Jacobi's The Prodigal Son (first broadcast), Haydn's Symphony No. 93 in D Major, the Gretry-Mottl ballet suite, Richard Strauss's Don Quixote.

Frank Sinatra (Sun. 7 p.m., ABC). Pinch-hitting for Commentator Drew Pearson.

Let's Go to the Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). Mezzo-soprano Rise Stevens and Tenor Eugene Conley sing Bizet, Puccini and Thomas arias in English.

Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Tenor James Melton, guest.

Forum of the Air (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). "What is the Best Solution to the Palestine Problem?" Speakers: Carl Herman Voss, executive secretary of the Christian Council on Palestine; Cecil Hourani, secretary of the Arab Office; Rabbi Israel Goldstein, ex-president of the Zionist Organization of America; Mrs. Bedia Afnan, former Iraq educator.

Night Life (Tues. 10 p.m., CBS). Cab Galloway, Pearl Bailey and Eddie Condon do some rug-cutting.

Academy Theater (Wed. 10 p.m.. CBS). Paul Lukas in Lillian Hellman's prize winning Watch on the Rhine.

Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). Ralph Ingersoll referees a debate on his anti-British Top Secret, with British Newsman William E. Hart for the book and U.S. Correspondent Henry J. Taylor against it.

Invitation to Music (Wed. 11:30 p.m., CBS). English Composer-Conductor Anthony Collins leads the CBS Symphony in William Alwyn's Concerto Grosso and Mozart's Fantasy in F Minor.

Berkshire Festival (Sat. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony in Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony (first broadcast)--see Music.

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