Act 1
Every week one of the best talks of past years is repeated in the Third Programme
'Picture to Yourself by George Burchett ,
Professor of Tattooing
Cavalcanti, the film director, talks about the films shown at the recent festival organised by the New London Film Society
A programme of poems recently written or hitherto unpublished, including work by Louis MacNeice, Norman Nicholson , Lawrence Durrell, G. Rostrevor
Hamilton, Clifford Dyment , and W. H. Auden. This month's selection arranged by Tercnce Tiller. Readers, Valentine Dyall and Jill Balcon
by Bill Dalton
For three generations the Dalton family have been ratcatchers in the City of London. The first Dalton made his livelihood selling live rats to the rat pits, where the prowess of terriers was tested by fanciers. Tonight Bill Dalton. who is engaged as ratcatcher by the big City companies, describes his midnight adventures. pitting himself against the cunning of the rat.
Act 3
A short story by H. T. Hopkinson , read by the author
by John Keats , read by Marius Goring.