Eileen Power (Professor of Economic History in the University of London)
(From National)

Percy Grainger (pianoforte): Shepherd's Hey (Grainger); Country Gardens (Grainger)

Cyril Scott (pianoforte): Water Wagtail (Scott); Valse Scherzando (Scott)

Percy Grainger: Clair de Lune (Moonlight) (Suite Bergamesque) (Debussy); Toccata in C sharp minor (Debussy)

James Ritchie (Professor of Natural History in the University of Aberdeen)

A.H. Winter assisted by M.E. Gilbert

(From National)

An Episode from 'Guy Mannering' By Sir Walter Scott
Read by Andrew P. Wilson on the 150th Anniversary of the death of Andrew Crosbie, the original of 'Counsellor Pleydell'

Andrew Crosbie, the friend of Lord Monboddo, James Boswell, George Dempster, and other men about town in Edinburgh in the 'fifties and 'sixties of the eighteenth century, was the son of an ex-provost of Dumfries. Educated in that town and at Edinburgh University, he became an advocate in 1757. His legal ability and wit were equal, and he soon earned a great reputation as a pleader at the Bar and as a desirable companion on social occasions. Frustrated in his hopes, he resorted more and more to the taverns of the old town, and the 'High Jinks' of Pleydell were a means of inducing oblivion.