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STELLA Gibbons on Charles Reade 's
The Cloister and the Hearth with readings by MICHAEL SPICE
Produced by John Chapple
First broadcast December 9. 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Stella Gibbons
Unknown:
Charles Reade
Produced By:
John Chapple

Fourteen illustrated talks by ROGER FISKE
9: flayers and Conductors 1775-1850
Travelling virtuosi did much to improve the standard of orchestral playing from the eighteenth century onwards, and this in turn encouraged composers to write more difficult music. More difficult music needed conductors to keep it together. An invention by the instrument makers gave new power to the brass section
Produced by Peter Dodd
First broadcast November 30. 1966

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Fiske
Produced By:
Peter Dodd

A weekly review 3 of the arts in the making This week:
EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH discusses with PETER BLAKE , painter
JASIA REICHARDT , critic, and ERIC ESTORICK, art dealer and expert on contemporary Russian art the approach to painting in Russia today and the. examples of Russian art now on view in the Soviet Painting exhibition in the Diploma Gallery at the Royal Academy of Arts, London

Contributors

Unknown:
Peter Blake
Unknown:
Jasia Reichardt

by Jasper Ridley
A personal portrait of Lord Palmerston based on the letters, anecdotes and reminiscences of the men and women who knew him among tnem
Charles Greville
The Duchess of Dino Benjamin Disraeli
Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer Prince Albert and Karl Marx
Produced by NESTA PAIN
To be repeated on Sept. 12

Contributors

Unknown:
Jasper Ridley
Unknown:
Charles Greville
Unknown:
Dino Benjamin Disraeli
Unknown:
Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer
Unknown:
Karl Marx
Produced By:
Nesta Pain

Three lectures recorded from a recent series
2: Predictability and Freewill
in Human Affairs by G. P. HENDERSON
Professor of Philosophy,
University of St. Andrews
Our whole social life depends greatly on being able to predict what people will freely do. Yet if social science seeks to do this systematically, we don'like the idea. Does this make sense?
Ethics and Language by G. J. Warnock : September 12

Contributors

Unknown:
G. P. Henderson
Unknown:
G. J. Warnock

Network Three

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