Sonata in F minor played by David Oistrach (violin) and Rafael Kubelik (piano)

by Sir Robert Watson-Watt ,
C.B., F.R.S.
The development of air transport has greatly changed the nature of the aids to navigation, and these changes are reflected in corresponding changes In the traditional methods of the mariner
Sir Robert Watson-Watt follows up a recent talk (on October 11) by the Astronomer Royal with a review of the ways in which progress in radio. radar, and electronics generally is affectmg the work of the twentieth-century navigator

Five weekly programmes tracing Its historical development
2—'The Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries' by Daniel George
Reader, Robert Harris
Production by Christopher Hassall

set to music for voices, strings, and organ by Agostino Steffani
Margaret Ritchie (soprano)
Marjorie Avis (soprano)
Margaret McArthur (contralto)
Alfred Hepworth (tenor) William Herbert (tenor)
Stanley Riley (bass)
George Thalben-Ball (organ)
St. Michael's Singers
String Orchestra
Conducted by Harold Darke
Edited by Charles Kennedy Scott
From St. Michael's. Cornhill

Glynne Wickham , who Is a student of the seventeenth-century theatre, comments on recent dramatic productions in the Third Programme. He considers in particular Goldoni's 'A Servant of Two Masters' and the radio production of Book 6 of ' Paradise Lost'

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Rafael Kubelik
Part
Prelude to the opera: Libuse
Ma Viast (My Country), complete cycle of six symphonic poems:
Vysehrad Vltava Sarka

This evening Kenneth Matthews talks about Benelux, the economic alliance between Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg
He has just visited these three countries as the BBC's special correspondent

Part 2
Ma Vlast (continued):
Z ceskych luhuv a hajuv (From
Bohemia's Woods and Fields
Tabor Blanik

Sequence of eight readings from
Wordsworth's 'The Prelude' and seven talks relating to the poem
Edited by Herbert Read
The first reading, by Hallam Fordham, is from books 1 and 2 and is introduced by Ormerod Greenwood

A new short story by L. A. G. Strong
Read by the author