In the first programme of this new weekly series, Alec Robert son and two listeners discuss some of the problems of contemporary music

in which leading scientists talk in a programme edited by Professor E. N. da C. Andrade , F.R.S.
The first programme of the autumn session was broadcast in the Home Service on September 4. It is being rebroadcast from recordings taken at that time. The speakers are: Sir Henry Dale , o.m., O.B.E., F.R.S., Nobel Prizewinner. Past President of the Royal Society, and Director of the Laboratories of the Royal Institution, on ' Medicinal Treatment-Then and Now'; and Sir Edward Appleton , G.B.E., K.C.B., F.R.S., Head of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, on the topical subject of ' Radio Noises from Outer Space '

A Masque by John Milton and Henry Lawes. As first presented at Ludlow Castle on Michaelmas Day, 1634
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon

First of a weekly series of critiques in which one contemporary writer is examined by another, with illustrations from his work

First of a new weekly series
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Guest Conductors,
Zoltan Kodaly and William Walton
Part 1
God Save the King
(conducted by the composer)
(First performance in England)
From the People's Palace, London

A selection of Border Ballads, including The Fair Flower of Northumberland,' ' Allison Gross ,' and ' The Daemon Lover.' Chosen by Terence Tiller and read by John Laurie

Part 2
(conducted by the composer)

Talk by Boyd Neel
Artists are scarcely respectable! In some circles they are invited to perform at the soiree, but are obliged to enter by the kitchen door. In other circles respectable families often crushed-perhaps they still do-the talent of an artistic child under the weight of their preference for bank managing as a career. Nothing against bank managers, but what's not respectable about Art?

First programme in a new weekly series. Edited by Anthony Lewis
1—Purcell
Music from ' Don Quixote '
Nora Gruhn (soprano) Ena Mitchell (soprano)
René Soames (tenor) Arnold Matters (bass)
George Eskdale (trumpet)
David Martin (violin)
Neville Marriner (violin)
John Moore (cello)
Ernest Lush (harpsichord)

A talk by one of the visitors to the Conference of the International Reunion of Architects at present being held In London

A talk by Professor G. D. H. Cole to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of William Morris 's death