GEORGE ELIOT is not very much in vogue nowadays, but even now most people who read her novels admit that they are well worth the trouble. The Mill on the Floss ' is one of the best of them, and the trials of Maggie Tulliver made a softer-hearted generation grieve as often as the eccentricities of her aunts made them laugh.

SINCE the war Germany and Austria have developed a cult of the open-air. Not merely sports, but walking and sun-bathing are becoming a craze with all classes and all ages, but particularly the young. In this talk Miss Ward will describe this movement as she herself has seen it.

BACH’S ‘ THE ART OF FUGUE'
Played by JAMES CHING and VICTOR HELY -
HUTCHINSON
First Fugue (for two
Pianofortes)
Second Fugue (for two Pianofortes)
Fifteenth Fugue (for one Pianoforte)
TWO of Bach's examples in The Art of Fugue were written for two
Pianofortes. They are amongst the liveliest of all in the set. Each uses :t different form of the same theme-one going up where the other goes down, and vice versa. In this bounding tune we find hints of the basic theme, though this covers more ground. It begins thus : (a) is the theme of the first Fugue, and (b) that of the second.
In each Fugue, when the second Pianoforte answers the first, it is with the tune upside down.
The most remarkable thing about these two-piano works is that throughout the second Fugue two of the four ' voices ' concerned reproduce, bar by bar, the music heard in the first Fugue, but in inverted form.
The Fifteenth Fugue has not, strictly, anything to do with the others in the Art of Fugue, in that it is not founded on the basic theme which Bach took for exposition. It was found in its unfinished state among his papers after his death, and his sons presumed that it was meant for The Art of Fugue.
It is a Fugue based on three tunes, lettered
(a), (b) and (c) below : :
. It will bo noticed that one of these gives the letters of Bach's name (the note B flat in German being called B; and B natural, H).
Each tune is worked out separately, and Bach left off just as he was apparently about to show how the three could be' combined and developed together.

THE whole history of Rome is full of fascination, and no part of it is more absorbing than the story of the change that made a city-state and farmer republic into an Empire that covered most of the known world. In this talk Mr. Norman Baynes will carry the story up to the time when Rome advanced into the Eastern Mediterranean and entered into the heritage of Greece. 7.45 A SONG RECITAL by SINCLAIR LOGAN (Baritone)

CLIFFORD CURZON (Pianoforte)
T ISZT'S piece is one of a set in which he gives in music his impressions of foreign scenes, people, art and literature. There are in all three such sets, the first two referring to his wanderings through Switzerland and Italy at various times from 1835 to 1840, when he was in his twenties.
Liszt's early ideas as to pictorial or suggestive music are well indicated in the preface to the first edition of the earliest of the pieces, in which he says: 'Having recently visited many new countries ... having felt that the varied aspects of Nature and of the scenes attached thereto did not pass before my eye like vain pictures, but they stirred up in my soul deep emotions ; that there was established between them and myself ... an inexplicable, but certain communication, I have tried to express in music a few of the strongest of my sensations ...'
In his second book of ' Pilgrimages ' are three pieces whose poetic basis is respectively the 47th, 104th and 123rd Sonnets of the great fourteenth-century lyric poet Petrarch.
8.0 8.30
Dr. P. SARGANT FLORENCE : ' Men and Maehines- Why We Work and Why We Rest'

SEXTET Norwegian Dance, No. 4 - Grieg
To a wild rose Woodland Sketches - MacDowell
In Autumn Woodland Sketches - MacDowell
To a water lily Woodland Sketches - MacDowell
8.12 CLIFFORD CURZON 104th Sonnet of Petrarch - Liszt
Prelude in C Sharp Minor (Op. 28, No. 10) - Chopin
Military Polonaise, Op. 40, No. 1 - Chopin
8.22 SEXTET Minuet, ' The Tea Caddy ' - Kenneth A. Wright
Prelude - Jarnefelt
Folk Tune and Fiddle Dance - Fletcher
8.34 CLIFFORD CURZON A Musical Box, Op. 32 - Liadov
Intermezzo, Op. 52 - Dvorak
Spanish Caprice, .Op. 32 - Moszkowski
8.44 SEXTET Fantasia on Scottish Airs - Mulder