Introduced by Laurence Whistler
The passages that Mr. Whistler has chosen are taken from writers who have described the English countryside. including Gilbert White , Bewick, and George Sturt. They are read by himself and by Basil Taylor

' Purcell and Morley'
The last of four talks by Michael Tippett , with illustrations recorded by Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano), Margaret Ritchie (soprano), and Walter Bergmann (harpsichord)

Sequence of eight readings from
Wordsworth's ' The Prelude' and seven talks relating to the poem
Edited by Herbert Read
The last reading by Hallam Fordham is from Books 12, 13, and 14, and is introduced by Ormerod Greenwood

Ljuba Welitsch (soprano)
Andre Gertler (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard)
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Part 1

4-Sir Richard Burton and Gertrude Bell by Lt.-Colonel Gerald de Gaury
How were two personalities so strongly contrasted as Burton and Miss Bell attracted to Arabia? Gerald de .Gaury, who examines this question, has acquired during the last twenty years a wide knowledge of the Arab world and is the author of Arabia Phoenix.' He recorded this talk recently before returning to Baghdad

Part 2

A reading of Frank O'Connor's translation of the Irish poem written by Bryan Merryman, a County Clare teacher, in the eighteenth century
Produced by W.R. Rodgers
The 'court' is a fairy court at which the unmarried women of Munster present their case against the men of Munster

Parry Jones (tenor)
Peers Coetmore (cello)
Frederick Stone (piano)
Song: Invitation in Autumn
(first performance in England)
Cello Sonata
Six Songs of Seumas O'Sullivan
For the past twenty years or so E. J. Moeran has been among the most prominent of British composers. Born near London in 1894, he is of Irish descent, though in his early years he lived in Norfolk and served in the Norfolk Regiment in the 1914-18 war. He studied at the Royal College of Music, and later with John Ireland. In recent years he has lived in London and Herefordshire, with periods of residence on the West coast of Ireland, where the romantic scenery, particularly of County Kerry, has inspired some of his finest works, including the Symphony and the Violin Concerto (though the Symphony also has Norfolk associations). Throughout his career he has taken an active interest in folk music.
The Cello Sonata was written for
Peers Coetmore , the composer's wife, who played it for the first time in Dublin last May. Seumas O'Sullivan , the distinguished Irish poet, is a friend of Moeran, whose settings of six of his poems were written in Ireland three years ago.