by John Dryden
Arranged for broadcasting and produced by Noel Iliff
Dedication spoken by Raf de la Torre
Narration spoken by James Mills
Songs arranged by Leslie Bridgewater and sung by John Gatrell and Marjorie Westbury
John Wills (harpsichord)
Diana Poulton (lute)

'Making the Polyphony Audible': the last of four talks by Michael Tippett , illustrated by sections of the Morley College Choir and Orchestra (conductor, Michael Tippett )

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Yvonne Lefebure (piano)
Part 1

Frank Thistlethwaite , who is a tutor of St. John's College and lectures in American History at Cambridge, analyses the origin of twentieth-century American radicalism, particularly in the age of President Jackson. He shows to what extent President Roosevelt and Henry Wallace are not simply twentieth-century progressives but the representatives of a continuous story of American development

Part 2

A serial survey of some contemporary verse--4
The Poet: Stephen Spender
The Critic : Roy Fuller
The Readers: Bernard Miles and Godfrey Kenton
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

Introduction and Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu for violin, cello, and piano played by members of the Danish Quartet:
Erling Bloch (violin), Torben Svendsen (cello), Lund-Christiansen (piano) on gramophone records

Sir Kenneth Clark on Graham Bell
Vincent Lines on Thomas Henncll
The eighth programme in this series is devoted to two artists who died during the recent war. Sir Kenneth Clark gives an appreciation of his friend Graham Bell , who was an observer in the R.A.F.; and Vincent Lines gives an appreciation of the artist and poet Thomas Hennell , who was killed in Indonesia