Talk bv Wilfrid Blunt on the history of a flower unknown in our gardens when Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne but later destined to create one of the greatest horticultural trading sensations Europe has ever known

String Quartet No. 5 played by the Hungarian String Quartet on gramophone records

by Aristophanes
Adapted by Reginald Beckwith and Andrew Cruickshank
Music composed and conducted by Leslie Bridgewater
Produced by Noel Iliff
Others taking part are Erik Chitty , Vera Draffin , Eric Elliott , Marne Maitland , Irene Palmer , and Fanny Wright

Joseph Szigeti (violin)
William Primrose {viola)
Pierre Fournier (cello) Artur Schnabel (piano)
Part 1

in an interlude of humour in words and music, with Lionel Salter at the piano
followed at 9.25 by Interlude

Part 2
From the Central Hall, Westminster The first of six public concerts organised by the BBC. The second concert will be broadcast on September 24 in the Home Service

' What do you get out of it? '
Walter Taplin. who on June 19 discussed the plot, characters, and structure of Finnegans Wake,' now investigates Joyce's method of writing and his aesthetic theory, and suggests some ways of deriving maximum enjoyment from the book. Extracts are read by Mary O'Farrell and Harry Hutchinson. and the programme contains a short passage from the recording made by James Joyce himself of a passage from ' Finnegans Wake '

sung by Suzanne Danco (soprano). with Gareth Morris (flute) William Pleeth (cello) and Frederick Stone (piano)
Histoires naturelles (Jules Renard )
Le paon: Le grillon: Le cygne; Le martin-pecheur: La pintade
Chansons madecasses, with flute, cello. and piano (translated into French by Evariste Parny ): Nahandove, 6 belle Nahandove: Aoua! Aoua! Méfiez-vous des blancs; II est doux de se coucher