What turns a man Into a moral philosopher? In the case of Richard Hare , now Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, it was above all the war and some of the agonising decisions it required. Wartime also influenced hi* musical preferences, reinforcing his love of the 16th and 17th centuries and increasing his mistrust of Beethoven! This afternoon he talks about his life and work, and plays music that Includes Byrd, Gibbons, Dowland, and part of Schiitz's Musikalisch Exequiem: records