Introduced by Olive Shapley
' What's Going On': spotlight on current affairs
' Mother-tongue': a talk against baby-talk by Florence Ledger
' Beauty in Portraits,' by Frank Slater
It is sometimes rather difficult to see why faces painted by the old masters were considered beautiful. Standards in beauty change and Frank Slater, who is himself a portrait painter, talks about some of the dinerences between the beauties of past centuries and physical loveliness as we judge it today.
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Serial: ' Icedrome ' by Frank Tilsley , abridged by the author. Read by Freda Falconer