The Original and the Translation Readings from the Rubaiyat of 'Omar Khayyam ' in Persian, and In the English translation by Edward Fitzgerald. Readers, Mujtaba Minovi and Basil Taylor
Forty-eight Preludes and Fugues played by Renata Borgatti (piano)
B minor (Book 1); E (Book 1); C minor (Book 2); F minor (Book 2); A (Book 1); F sharp (Book 2)
A talk by Anthony M. Ludovici , who was for a period private secretary to the French sculptor
Busch String Quartet:
Adolf Busch (violin), Ernst Drucker (violin), Hugo Gottesmann (viola), Hermann Busch (cello)
Part 1
' The Gobelins and Parts, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries,' by George Wingfield Digby, Keeper of the Department of Textiles at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Part 2
String Quartet in C, Op. 61 Dvordk
Extracts from Chaucer's poem, arranged for broadcasting by Nevill Coghill
Produced by Stephen Potter
The last broadcast in this series includes ' The Shipman's Tale' with Arthur Young as the Shipman
Trio in D, Op. 135 played by the Rubbra Trio:
Joshua Glazier (violin), William Pleeth (cello), Edmund Rubbra (piano)
Discussion of science, religion, politics, art, materialism, and other ' isms ' of today. Originating from Princeton University
Speakers: Lyman Bryson. Professor of Education, Columbia University (in the Chair); Robert MacIver , Professor of Political Philosophy. Columbia University; Archibald MacLeish , poet. lately Librarian of Congress; Donald A. Stauffer , Professor of English, Princeton (director of the humanistic conferences)