This week Professor E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S., introduces: The
Planet Neptune.' by Sir Harold Spencer Jones , F.R.S., Astronomer Royal : and ' Recent Advances In the Physiology of Vision,' by Hamilton Hartridge , M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Physiology at St. Bartholomew's Medical College

Leon Goossens (oboe)
Winifred Davey (harpsichord)
BBC Singers
Conductor, Leslie Woodgate

During the third week of October listeners heard, in the Third Programme, Bach's ' Art of Fugue' and Hindemith's ' Ludus Tonalis ,' and it may have occurred to them to compare and contrast these two works-an old and a new testament of music. That is what William Glock is going to do in his talk this evening

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Part 1
Though Martinu, the most important modern Czech composer, has spent the greater part of his life outside his native country-chietly in France and America-he has constantly pursued his ideal of a national Czech music. His fourth symphony, laid out on the scale of the symphonic form as it was left by the later romantic composers, was completed in Massachusetts last year. Its style is individual, continuing, nevertheless, the tradition of the earlier Czech composers, Smetana. Suk, and Janacek

A serial survey of some contemporary verse-4 ,
The Poet: Edith Sitwell
The Critic: Henry Reed
The Readers: Catherine Lacey and Dylan Thomas
The fourth programme, introduced by the Critic, consists of further examples of the Poet's work, which they have chosen in collaboration
Presented by E. J. King Bull

Part 2
From the People's Palace, London

With particular reference to How Not To, and a special sub-section on How Not To Broadcast
Written by Stephen Potter and Joyce Grenfell. and demonstrated by Joyce Grenfell , Betty Hardy , Gladys Young , Carleton Hobbs , Ronald Simpson. Deryck Guyler , Geoffrey Wincott , Roy Plomley , and Ivor Barnard. Produced by Stephen Potter
A new production of the ' How ' that opened the Third Programme.

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

An elegant anthology containing many learned and unwanted facts, trimmed and arranged by Denis Constanduros. Music composed by Roy Douglas
Produced by Michael Barsley

Settings of poems by Friedrich Schlegel , sung by Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Mary Jarred (contralto)
Roy Henderson (baritone) accompanied by Frederick Stone
Programme introduced by Mosco Carner

by C. Day Lewis , read by Valentine Dyall.