Conductor, Matyas Seiber

Talk by Isaac Deutscher
The speaker is a specialist in the internal economy of Russia. Tonight. he discusses the present five-year plan in the U.S.S.R. and the recent currency reform. He analyses Russia's foreign trade and. in particular, her trade with Britain

Four Preludes, Op. 11: E minor; G;
A ilat ; C sharp minor
Two Poems. Op. 32: F sharp; D Sonata. Op. 30 No. 4
Four Studies: F minor, Op. 42;
D flat, Op. 8; F sharp. Op. 42; D sharp minor, Op. 8 played by Julius Isserlis (piano)
Another programme o/ Scriabin's music: Wednesday at 6.0

An appreciation of the man and his work by C. A. Lejeune

A selection compiled by W. L. Hanchant
Read by Harold Scott

Jean Pougnet (violin)
David Martin (violin)
James Whitehead (cello)
Bernard Richards (ceHo)
Arnold Goldsbrough (harpsichord)

A study of a drug addict
Written by Kenneth Alexander
Music composed and conducted by Antony Hopkins
Production by Nesta Pain
(New version of the broadcast in the Third Programme on August 24, 1947)

Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
(arr. Sebastian Brown ) played by the Philharmonia String Quartet:
Henry Hoist (violin)
Ernest Element (violin) Herbert Downes (viola)
Anthony Pini (cello) with John Moore (cello)
Brahms's Piano Quintet is also known in its earlier version as a sonata for two pianos, but the original version as a string quintet with two cellos was destroyed by the composer after consultation with Joachim. Sebastian Brown has conjecturally restored this original version from the two published forms

A talk by R. H. Ward on the author of ' An Introduction to the Study of Blake'
Mr. Ward is at present working on a new edition of Plowman's Letters, which were originally published soon after his death in 1941