Astra Desmond (contralto)
Rene Soames (tenor)
Leon Goossens (oboe)
Hurwitz String Quartet:
Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
Jorgen Lauland (violin)
Kenneth Essex (viola)
Terence Weil (cello)

A series of talks by Christopher Hollis
2-Dostoevsky

Paul Beard (violin)
Lambert Flack (flute) Edward Selwyn (oboe)
Jack Mackintosh (trumpet)
Louis Kentner (piano)
' BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conductor, Sir Adrian Boult
Part 1

Readings from
Virgil's ' Georgics ' :
(Book 2, lines 136-157) (Book 1, lines 316-334)
Read by Keith Guthrie ,
Public Orator in the University of Cambridge
(The recorded broadcast of August 19 repeated)

Part 2
From the Royal Albert Hall, London

This week's programme includes a review by Alec Clifton-Taylor of the book of essays ' The Artist and Society' by the Italian painter, Gino Severini , which has recently been published in an English translation

Piano Sonata in G, No. 6
Piano Sonata in C, No. 7
Piano Sonata in G, No. 8 played by Phyllis Sellick
(The sonatas are numbered according to the Breitkopf collected edition of Haydn's works)
Fourth of a series of weekly recitals during which all Haydn's piano works will be played

Philip Hope-Wallace , who is a radio critic as well as a critic of the theatre, considers this week's dramatic productions in the Third Programme