Humphry House reviews ' The Reading of Books ' by Holbrook Jackson

Two Unaccompanied Suites:
No. 1, in G No. 3,. in C played by Pierre Fournier (cello)

The Original and the Translation-2
Pushkin: Prologue for Ruslan and Ludmilla 'I loved you'; 'The Coach of Life'; 'Winter' (from ' Eugene Onegin ')

The second 'talk in this series is given by a philosopher, M. B. Foster (student of Christchurch, Oxford)

Comment and Action
A series of programmes designed to introduce great English and foreign plays which are seldom performed in this country
2—' TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT'
by Christopher Marlowe
(The birth of English poetic drama)
Selections from the play, with a commentary written by M. R. Ridley. Produced by Mary Hope Allen.

Winter Series
Kyla Greenbaum (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult From the Royal Albert Hall, London

George Orwell's fairy story in a version for broadcasting made by the author and produced by Rayner Heppenstall.
Animal and human voices by Frank Atkinson, Margot van der Burgh, John Chandos, Vivienne Chatterton, Andrew Churchman, Richard George, Deryck Guyler, Betty Hardy, Charles Maunsell, Hugh Munro, Bryan Powley, Norman Shelley, Ronald Simpson, Gladys Spencer, Raf de la Torre, Marjorie Westbury, and the BBC Variety Chorus.

Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Margaret Bissett (contralto)
Eric Greene (tenor)
Stanley Riley (bass)
BBC Chorus
Harry Stubbs (organ)
Jacques Orchestra
Conducted by Reginald Jacques

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
Others taking part are Graham Doody , Andrew Faulds , Charles Leno , Eddy Reed , and Marjorie Westbury