Medieval England and Modern Syria
Talk by Rodney Hilton , Lecturer in History at Birmingham University and author of a recent book on the economy of the fourteenth-century estates in Leicestershire
A Virgate was a peasant holding in medieval England; a Feddan is a peasant holding in twentieth-century Syria and the Lebanon. Rodney Hilton compares his experiences as a soldier in the war among the peasant cultivators of modern Syria with his researches into the villeins, or peasant cultivators, of fourteenth-century Leicestershire

A poem in twelve books by John Milton
Book 10
Music composed by Elizabeth Poston
Conducted by Cyril Gell
Production by Douglas Cleverdon

(piano)

Talk by Sir Cyril Radcliffe , K.B.E., K.C.

Quartet No. 1, in E flat played by the Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin)
Leonard Dight (violin) Watson Forbes (viola)
John Moore (cello)

by Emile Verhaeren
Translated by Osman Edwards
Persons of the drama:
Production by E J. King Bull

Sonata in A, for violin and piano played by Yehudi and Hephzibah Menuhin on gramophone records

Prose readings In interludes between programmes this week have been selected by Douglas Cooper from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh