Four British Composers
HANDEL:
' Israel in Egypt'
Second of two illustrated talks by John Horton

Introduced by Robin Holmes
SPECIAL NOTICE: Peter Duval Smith reviews some new American short stories
THE benefactors : A. C. Bubb , a librarian, on the mushroom growth of Public Libraries at the turn of the century due to the munificence of Andrew Carnegie and others
LIBRARY LIST: Ian Rodger on some recent books
QUOTATION: a reading from a new book

Introduced by John Lade
B. J. Webb on ' The Pleasures of Listening'
In ' Building a Library' Peter Stadlen suggests some outstanding records of music by Johann Strauss

Terence Reese and Harold Franklin discuss with Kenneth Konstam and Mrs. Rixi Markus some bidding situations that arose in recent programmes
This is one from last week's bidding match:
West deals at love-all: East holds
The bidding begins One Club-Two Clubs: Two No-Trumps-Three Diamonds : Four Diamonds-What should East bid now*