Marko RothmUller (baritone)
Ernest Lush (accompanist)
Aeolian String Quartet

Merlin Thomas , Lecturer in French Literature at New College, Oxford, comments on recent dramatic productions in the Third Programme. He considers in particular 'The Master of Santiago,' the play by de Montherlant

BBC Symphony Orchestra
(Leader,Paul Beard )
Conducted by Nicolai Maiko
Part I

A weekly talk on international affairs given by a BBC staff correspondent

Part 2

* The Raison d'Etre of Criticism' *
E. M. Forster 's talk on criticism in the arts, especially music, is based on a lecture given at Harvard University in May 1947
Next talk: November 11

played by John Simons (piano)

An appreciation of her poetry by Patric Dickinson
Reader, Jill Balcon

Serenade in C minor (K.388) played by the Wind Ensemble of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,:
Hans Kamesch (oboe) Karl Swoboda (oboe)
Leopold Wlach (clarinet)
Franz Bartoschek (clarinet) Karl Oehlberger (bassoon)
Otto Schieder (bassoon)
Gottfried Freiberg (horn)
Josef Lackner (horn)