String Quartet No. 2, Op. 17 played by the Budapest String Quartet on gramophone records

What do the recent restrictions on imported books really imply? What are these restrictions? Who is most affected by them?
Walter Taplin, Assistant Editor of the Spectator, explains the exact nature of the ban. Some of its probable consequences are estimated by R. H. Code Holland, President of the Publishers Association; Dr. J. Bronowski;- and Alan Bullock. Fellow of New College. Oxford

A series of six programmes devised by Diana Poulton
1-Cavendish and Danyel
Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Rene Soames (tenor) Diana Poulton (lute)
Nathalie Dolmetsch (gamba)

An appreciation by Professor E. N. da C. Andrade , F.R.S ., of Planck's scientific work and its influence on modem physical science and philosophy
Max Planck. the distinguished German physicist who died at Gottlngen on October 4, achieved universal fame as the originator of the Quantum Theory, which dominates modern physics and has influenced all branches of science. He showed that the way in which radiations are sent out and absorbed by atoms could not be explained by the laws of physics as- known fltty years ago. and worked out fundamental new relationships in terms of a small unit known as Planck's Constant.
Planck's work laid the foundations of the modern theory of atomic processes, am initiated the revolution in scientific thought which has taken place during the last half-century

Frederick Thurston (clarinet)
London Chamber Orchestra
(Leader, David Wise )
Conductor, Anthony Bernard
Fartein Valen: Pastorale, op. 11. Valen, one of the leading Norwegian composers of today, was born at Stavanger in 1887. His childhood was spent in Madagascar, where his father was a missionary, and he himself believes that those early years in the tropics had a marked influence on his development. He studied for a time at Oslo, and then in Berlin under Max Reger. In 1924 he settled at Oslo. where he became director of the music department of the university library and won a fine reputation as a teacher. In 1935 he was awarded a government grant which enabled him to devote all his time to composition. He now lives in retirement at Valevaag on the west coast of Norway.

A poem in twelve books by John Milton

Music composed by Elizabeth Poston
Conducted by Cyril Gell
Produced by Douglas Cleverdon

An appreciation by G. M. Trevelyan , o.m.