Three Piano Pieces, Op. 3
Lied for piano, Op. 8 played by the composer

Francois Maurinc
An appreciation of his work by Robert Speaight

Nocturne for Four Voices
(Words by Sidney Keyes ) with string quartet, double-bass, bass clarinet, and celesta
Emelie Hooke (soprano)
Rene Soames (tenor)
Frederick Fuller (baritone)
William Parsons (bass)
Hurwitz String Quartet:
Emanuel Hurwltz (violin)
Jorgen Laulund (violin)
Kenneth Essex (viola)
Terence Weil (cello)
J. Edward Merrett (double-bass)
Wilfred Hambleton
(bass clarinet)
Frederick Stone (celesta)
Conducted by Mosco Carner

' The Empty Quarter '
Talk by Wilfrid Thesiger
Wilfrid Thesiger is the third English-man to have crossed the Rub El Khali (the Empty Quarter), a great desert tract of Southern Arabia. Here Mr. Thesiger has spent most of the last two years, and he has recently returned to the Empty Quarter for further exploration.
Before he left, he recorded this analysis of. the fascination he feels for ' a half mythical land of emptiness and death ' and the people who inhabit it
Freya Stark's talk, ‘Two Merchant Nations,' will be repeated on Wednesday at 9.40

Elsie Suddaby (soprano)
Gladys Ripley (contralto)
Eric Greene (tenor)
Tom Williams (bass-baritone)
The Bach Choir
The Jacques Orchestra
(Leader, Ruth Pearl )
C. Thornton Lofthouse (continuo)
Osborne Peasgood (organ)
Conductor, Reginald Jacques
Part 1

by Frank Swinnerton
Frank Swinnerton looks back over his life as novelist. critic, and publishers' adviser, and bids farewell to ' reading for duty '

Part 2

Talk by Victor Cavendlsh-Bentinck ,
C.M.G. Mr. Cavendish-Bentinck, who has recently returned from Germany, gives his views on this problem

Sonata in B flat (K.358)
Sonata in C (K.521) played by Howard Ferguson and Denis Matthews

Passages from Disraeli's speech on Church policy and the scientific challenge to belief (given at Oxford in 1864), read by Felix Aylmer