5-John Locke's Papers
Sir Edmund Craster (Fellow of All Soul's College, Oxford, and late Bodley's Librarian) describes the Lovelace collection of John Locke 's manuscripts, notebooks, and correspondence which has been acquired by the Bodleian and which throws much new light on the history of Locke's life and thought
Selected papers from the collection are to be published, on the basis of an examination of the MSS. by Dr. W. von Leyden, of Durham University. who has discovered the key to the shorthand Locke used for recording some of his ideas
Fifteen Variations with Fugue in E flat, Op. 35 (Eroica) played by Alfred Blumen (piano)
The puzzle of recent fossil discoveries in South Africa
A talk by W. E. Le Gros Clark , F.R.S., of the Department of Human Anatomy at Oxford
The Love Songs sung by Hoddle Nash (tenor)
Programme arranged and introduced by Elizabeth Poston
A talk by Julian Huxley
Weimar Preludes and Fugues and the Orgelbüchlein—2
Prelude and Fugue in G
Orgelbuchlein:
Christe du Lamm Gottes (Agnus Dei)
O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde gross Prelude and Fugue in A minor
played by Geraint Jones (organ) Chorales sung by the BBC Singers
Conducted by Cyril Gell
The story of famine in Ireland, from the failure of the potato crop in 1845 to the mass evictions of 1847-8 Written and produced by David Thomson
The programme is based on contemporary documents (including the manuscript diary of a resident land-owner) and on the traditional memory of a tenant family
(For cast please see page 15)
A series of programmes devised and introduced by Edward Clark
Stravinsky Octet for wind instruments Suite: Pulcinella played by the Philharmonia Orchestra
(Leader, Leonard Hirsch )
Conducted by Roger Desormiere
Three talks by J. H. Delargy .., Professor of Irish Folklore in the National University of Ireland
2The Art of the Folk Tale
The second talk in this short series introduces some typical Gaelic story-tellers and their tales
