This week Professor E. N. da C. Andrade, F.R.S., introduces F. C. Bartlett , C.B.E., F.R.S., Professor of Experimental Psychology in the University of Cambridge, who talks about ' Psychology in Action'; and A. C. Hardy , F.R.S., Professor of Zoology in the University of Oxford, who speaks about the important food of fishes which zoologists call ' plankton '

A Christmas Cantata by Alan Bush
Words by Randall Swingler
(First performance)
Elly Short (soprano)
Robert Pagan (baritone)
Alnwick Parish Church Choir
Glaston and District Choral Society
Alnwick Ladies Choir
(Trained by Frederick Hudson )
Maria Korchinska (harp)
Quintet (Leader. Cyril Perfect)
Conducted by the composer
Arranged by the Council for the Arts. Music, and Drama in Northumberland. From Alnwick Parish Church. Northumberland

' Schonberg and the Twelve-Note Scale': an illustrated talk by Peter Stadlen

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Louis Kentner (piano)
Part 1

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

Part 2
From the People's Palace. London

A serial survey of some contemporary verse-4
The Poet: C. Day Lewis
The Critic: L. A. G. Strong
The Readers: Helen Spalding and Stephen Murray
A sequence of four programmes is devoted to each Poet and Critic. The first comprises a number of poems selected by the Critic, as an introduction. In the second, the Critic expresses his personal attitude to poetry and his appreciation of the Poet. In the third, the Poet replies. The fourth programme, introduced also by the Critic, consists of further examples of the Poet's work, which they have chosen in collaboration
Presented by E. J. King Bull

Nellie Carson (soprano)
(Songs with Lute)
Joseph Saxby (harpsichord)

A radio allegory concerning the adventures of a schoolboy who loved beauty and hated pedants, with consequences distressful to both. Written by Paul Dehn and produced by Rayner Heppenstall

by operatic composers
Quartet in D (Donizetti); Trio pathetique (Glinka.); Quartet In E minor (Verdi) on gramophone records