George Orwell 's fairy story in a version for broadcasting made by the author and produced by Rayner Heppenstall. Music composed and directed by Antony Hopkins

Act 1 «

Talk by H. H. Price.
Wykeham Professor of Logic in the University of Oxford

Act 2

Edward Crankshaw discusses the conflict of values between Russia and Western Europe

Act 3

Readings by Robert Speaight from ' Apologia pro vita sua ' and ' The Idea of a University
Thirty-two Variations in C minor, played by Kathleen Long (piano)

Talk by Walter Starkie , Litt.D., Director of the British Institute in Madrid
For a quarter of a century Dr. Walter Starkie has been accumulating an intimate knowledge of Spain and the Spanish. It is against this background that he examines . the contemporary writers of Spain, considering them not merely as literary personalities but as embodying, in their different ways. the spirit of the Spain that he knows and loves. What was the effect of the Civil War on Spanish writers? Why are there so few contemporary novelists in Spain? What English authors are read and translated in Spain today? What are the current literary movements? These are some of the questions Dr. Starkie answers