' Contemporary Sculpture,' by Margot Eates and R. P. Bedford; ' Some Contemporary Irish Painters,' by Leonard Greaves. Programme introduced by Anthony West

Peter Stadlen (piano)
Harold Child (baritone)
The Harper's Songs (from Goethe's
Wilhelm Meister ):
Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt Wer nie sein Brot mit Triinen ass An die Tiiren will ich schleichen
Piano Sonata in B flat, Op. posth.
The harper from Goethe's ' Wilhelm Meister ' inspired many of the romantic composers. Richard Capell gives the following synopsis of ' Wer sich der Einsamkeit erglbt': Some live for life's sake, some for love: but for me grief in solitude, the grief that leaves me never alone but creeps in as a lover to his mistress. Grief, I hug thee to me. But better were the utter solitude of the grave.' No less poignant, as an expression of grief, is the second song, from Book 2; while the third song, from Book 5, depicts the harper's resignation as he wanders from door to door

Talk by Rupert Crawshay-Williams
Psychological motives and linguistic confusions are both factors in irrational thought. In this talk Rupert Crawshay-Williams discusses ' the psycho-semantic origins of irrationality '

BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Constant Lambert
Part 1

Henry Boys , who has recently prepared the vocal score of Britten's opera ' The Rape of Lucretia,' and is one of the younger generation of writers on music, criticises some of this week's music broadcasts

Part 2

A weekly talk on international affairs by a BBC staff correspondent

A selection from his poetry made by J. Middleton Murry and read by Dylan Thomas

Part 4

by V. S. Pritchett
3-Aksakov

played by C. H. Trevor (organ)
Among Bach's contemporaries the French organist, Louis Marchand chiefly known for a competition to which Bach challenged him at Dresden -was organist at Versailles. Clerambault was one of the earliest organists at S. Sulpice in Paris. Walther, a relative of Bach and organist at Weimar, is noted for his chorales. Very few works are extant of the Czech organist Cernohorsky, most of them having been destroyed by fire during his lifetime; he was one of Gluck teachers. Buxtehude was among the greatest organists of his time; his works had an important influence, and his reputation was such that Bach himself made a journey of 200 miles on foot to hear him play at Lubeck.