Margaret Hodsdon (virginal)
BBC Singers
Conducted by Leslie Woodgate

' After Babel'
In tonight's programme in the series on ' Sound and Hearing,' designed to help you to assess the quality of the sounds that come through your loudspeaker, Dennis Fry and Ian Cox , both of whom have done original research on the subject of human speech, discuss its success and failure as a means of communication
The programme is illustrated by numerous recordings of speech and other sounds, and includes the results of recent work, not yet published

Hungarian String Quartet:
Z. Székely (violin). A. Moskowsky (violin), D. Koromzay (viola), V. Palotai (cello)
Nora Gruhn (soprano)
Josephine Lee (piano)
Part 1 7.54 app. Songs of Alessandro Scarlatti : Qui venni, ingrata Filli
Entro romito speco

Laurence Whistler on Rex Whistler

Part 2
Songs of Schumann:
Roselein, RSselein; Marienwurmchen; Der Nussbaum; Wer machte dich so krank?; Alte Laute; Soldatenbraut

Including poems by Stephen Spender. Terence Tiller , Sheila Shannon. Anne Ridler , Anthony Rye. and Michael Gardner. Readers, Lionel Stevens and Anne Cullen. Produced by Patrie Dickinson

Forty-eight Preludes and Fugues played by Renata Borgatti (piano)
E flat (Book 1); E minor (Book 2); F sharp (Book 1); E flat minor (Book 2); B flat (Book 1); F sharp minor (Book 1)
Next recital: Friday at 8.20 followed at 10.25 by Interlude

5—' Champion of Freedom ' by Rose Macaulay
Produced by Rayner Heppenstall
Part 1: 1644
Part 2: 1652
It is generally known that Milton, in his Areopagitica, ' eloquently upheld freedom of speech. A few years later he became Cromwell's censor of publications

John Morel (baritone)
Henry Holst and Ernest Element (violins) Edmund Rubbra (piano)