Peter Pears (tenor)
Peter Stadlen (piano)
Aeolian String Quartet:
Alfred Cave (violin) Leonard Dight (violin) Watson Forbes (viola) John Moore (cello)
J. Edward Merrett (double-bass) Gareth Morris (flute) Leonard Brain (oboe)
Stephen Waters (clarinet) Alan Hyde (horn) John Alexandra (bassoon) Harold Jackson (trumpet) James Blades (percussion)
Vigil, for piano
Two songs of A.E. Housman, for voice and piano
Ballade, for piano
Put away the flutes (W.R. Rodgers), for voice, flute, oboe. and string quartet. (First performance)
Intermezzo, for eleven instruments
(conducted by the composer)
Humphrey Searle, who was born at Oxford in 1915, studied at the Royal College of Music with John Ireland and R. O. Morris, and in Vienna with Anton Webern. An adherent of the twelve-note school of Schonberg, he is also a great admirer of the romantic composers of the nineteenth century, particularly Liszt, of whose music he has made a special study. (He compiled the detailed catalogue of Liszt's works for the 1940 edition of Grove's Dictionary.) His works include two suites for string orchestra, two nocturnes for chamber orchestra, and a piano concerto (performed at a Promenade Concert last summer). His piano piece 'Vigil,' is subtitled 'France, 1940-1944,' and dedicated to 'my friends of the Fighting French Forces' with whom he served as an instructor during the war. The Housman songs are dedicated to John Ireland. The Intermezzo was written last year, in memory of Webern.

This year marks the centenary of the birth of the Rt. Hon. Sir Arthur Acland (1847-1926). one of the notable architects of British education. In this talk his achievements are assessed by W. H. G. Armytage , Lecturer in Education at the University of Sheffield, in the light of a journal kept by Acland himself

Music by Kurt Weill
Presented on gramophone records by Lionel Salter

A Trial
Written and produced by Jenifer Wayne
In a mock trial, British Justice is weighed in her own scales. Witnesses give evidence of some of the things they have seen British Justice do from her earliest stages to the present day. She is defended and has her own witnesses. The verdict rests with the listener
The cast includes Mary O'Farrell , Carleton Hobbs , James McKechnie , Cecil Trouncer , and Norman Shelley

Part 1

4-A biography of Stalin
I. Deutscher, who is. preparing a biography of the Marshal, discusses the problems involved and the method by which he is tackling them

Parts 2 and 3 (There will be a five-minute interval at 10.0 app.)

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