by Christopher Dearnley
From Salisbury Cathedral

A weekly programme about work in the world of science
Plastic, not Elastic by J. F. Baker O.B.E , D.SC., F.R.S. Professor of Mechanical Sciences in the University of Cambridge
Professor Baker describes new methods of designing shell-framed buildings that can reduce costs by a fifth. Among recent buildings using this ' plastic' method of design are the Air Terminal at Gloucester Road, London, and the Transit Shed at Southampton Docks.
Repeated on Saturday at 9.10 (Home)

The fourth of a series of weekly programmes for those interested in French life and language
4-Flaubert
Madame Bovary and Un Coeur Simple
The programmes are presented by Jacques Brunius , who introduces the subject in English, comments in French and English on points of grammar, syntax, and vocabulary which are of special difficulty or interest, and presents the chosen texts, songs or extracts from plays and films.
Devised and produced by Elsie Ferguson
A forty-page pamphlet is available, giving background material and illustrations, with extracts from some of the more difficult texts to be quoted. It can be obtained price Is. 6d. through newsagents and book-sellers or direct by crossed postal order for Is. 6d. (not stamps, please) from [address removed]

Introduced by John Lade.
John Russell in "Building a Library" compares the available recordings of Brahms's Second Piano Concerto.
Harold Rosenthal reviews some recent long-playing re-issues of great singers of the past.