Letters from listeners about talks and discussions in the Third Programme, edited and introduced by Frank Birch

Trois chansons de Bilitis Le promenoir de deux amants sung by Maggie Teyte (soprano) with Alfred Cortot (piano) on gramophone records

General Editor, Gerald Abraham
Series presented by Basil Lam '
18-Palestrina, Lassus, and their Contemporaries
Editor, Henry Coates
Renaissance Singers
Conductor, Michael Howard
Programme introduced by Alec Robertson

Alfred Cobban , Reader in History at University College, London, analyses those ideas of Empire which provided a background for the intensified Imperialism of the '80s and '90s

Kathleen Ferrier (contralto)
Frederick Riddle (viola) Frederick Stone (piano)

Talk by Robert Birley , formerly Headmaster of Charterhouse and now Educational Adviser, British Zone of Germany
Shortened version of the Burge Memorial Lecture, delivered in the Great School, Westminster School, on December 3, 1947, and published by the Student Christian Movement Press

A programme compiled and spoken by Eustace Heygate

Flora Nielsen (mezzo-soprano)
Trevor Anthony (bass)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader, Paul Beard )
Conducted by Constant Lambert
9.50 app. Interval

A poetic play about 1916 by Robert Farren
Produced in Dublin by the author
This play was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, and first performed there in 1943, during the 1916 Commemoration. The scene is a house in the southern suburbs of Dublin, late in Easter week, 1916

Serenade in C, Op. 10 for string trio played by Jascha Heifetz (violin)
William Primrose (viola) and Emanuel Feuermann (cello) on gramophone records