The problem of cinema standards discussed by Adrian Scott and Roger Manvell.

A programme in admiration of English gardens, from the formal terraces of Elizabethan mansions and the landscapes of eighteenth-century noblemen to the unpretentious gardens of cottage and vicarage and villa. Written and introduced by Geoffrey Grigson. Produced by Douglas Cleverdon

Conducted by Eugene Goossens
Dennis Brain (horn)
Frederick Grinke (violin)
Part 1

' Henry James and the Drama ' from a book entitled ' The Poet in the Theatre ' by Ronald Peacock. Reviewed by Gerard Hopkins

Part 2
Liverpool Philharmonic Society's concert. From the Philharmonic Hall. Liverpool

The facts about atomic energy, from the night in July 1945, when the first atomic bomb was exploded in a desolate valley of New Mexico, up to the present day
Music composed by Hubert Clif ford and played by an orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson
Written and produced by Nesta Pain
The programme presents a sober picture of the possibilities of this new source of power for both good and evil, including a detailed impression of what would happen if a bomb dropped on Piccadilly Circus, and some indication of its uses in time of peace

William Pleeth (cello)
Margaret Good (piano)

2—'La Muiron,' by Anatole France With Bernard Miles as Napoleon and Anthony Jacobs as Lavallette. Adapted and produced by Rayner Heppenstall
In this little-known fragment by a nineteenth-century French master, Bonaparte discusses supernatural happenings with the scientists Monge and Berthollet, his aide-de-camp Lavallette, and Admiral Gantheaume. The action takes place on board the frigate which brought Napoleon from Egypt for the coup d'étât of 1799

A talk by Dr. J. Bronowski on the change from invention to imagination which took place between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He chose as his first spokesman William Blake , in a talk broadcast on October 9

Carl Dolmetsch
(recorder and treble viola)
Joseph Saxby (harpsichord)
Natalie Dolmetsch
(viola da gamba)