by L. L. Whyte
, Until recently the trend of knowledge was towards fragmentation into an ever greater number of specialist departments. Today Mr. Whyte believes that trend is reversed, and knowledge is reaching towards a new synthesis. In this talk he considers what form the new synthesis may take

Emil Leichner (violin) Vilem Kostecka (viola) Jaroslav Blazek (cello)
Frantisek Hertl (double-bass)
Karel Hanzl (flute) Josef Vacek (oboe)
Oldrich Pergl (clarinet)
Antonin Hotovy (bassoon)
Josef Hobik (horn)

by Stephen Potter
Including How to Win Them, Without Actually Cheating. With insertions by Joyce Grenfell , Illustrated in person
The whole demonstrated by a special games section .of the Christmas Division of the How Repertory Company, and produced by Stephen Potter

General editor, Gerald Abraham
1-The Oldest Surviving
Secular Music
Editor, J. A. Westrup
Marjorie Avis (soprano)
Max Meill (tenor)
Programme introduced by Alec Robertson

' Second Opinion' is to be a new weekly programme made up of letters from listeners to the Third Programme. They will be edited by Frank Birch. Today he explains the programme and describes the opportunities it offers to listeners
His first collection of comments and rejoinders will be broadcast on January 17

Mewton-Wood (piano)
BBC Men's Chorus
(Chorus-Master, Leslie Woodgate )
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader,Paul Beard )
Conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham , Bt.
Part 1

Piano Concerto, with men's chorus - Busoni

by C. Willett Cunnington
Dr. Cunnington holds that the era of the Perfect Lady began after Waterloo and ended, once and for all, during the two great world wars. She had a hard life, this artificial product of the Napoleonic wars, but she was the supreme exhibit at the time of the Great Exhibition in 18H

Part 2

by Rudyard Kipling
Read by Marlus Goring