Gabriella Gatti (soprano)
Jean Fuller (guitar)
Enid Simon (harp) John Francis (flute) Joy Boughton (oboe)
Edward Wilson (bassoon) Manoug Parikian (violin)
Hans Geiger (violin) Bernard Davis (viola)
George Roth (cello)
Millicent Silver
(harpsichord and piano)
John Wills (piano)

by Charles Madge
In recent years it has been recognised that town planning should go beyond bricks, mortar, and drains and should be closely related to the social and personal needs of the inhabitants. Charles Madge , who was appointed
Social Development Officer to the Stevenage New Town in 1947, tells of the problems that arise in social planning now that this science is being applied to a new settlement

Nancy Evans (contralto) Bruce Belfrage (speaker)
Francis Poulenc (piano)
Norman Franklin (accompanist)
London String Trio:
Maria Lidka (violin)
Watson Forbes (viola) Vivian Joseph (cello)
Concert given under the auspices of the London Contemporary Music Centre. From the R.B.A. Galleries. Suffolk Street. London
Part 1

Ralph Hill reviews some recently published books on music
Including ' The Orchestra from Beethoven to Berlioz,' by Adam Carse ; ' The Music Masters,' edited by A. L. Bacharach ; ' Mozart's Piano Concertos,' by C. M. Girdlestone ; 'Music Lover's Anthology.' compiled by Arthur Jacobs ; and ' Brahms ' (Master Musicians series), by Peter Latham

First of two broadcasts in which Daniel Jones , Professor of Phonetics in the University of London, illustrates the changing pronunciation of English
Tonight he begins with Anglo-Saxon speech and ends with Elizabethan

Piano Sonata in F. Op. 54
Piano Sonata in A, Op. 2 No. 2 played by Kathleen Long
Second of a series of programmes in which all Beethoven's piano sonatas are being played.

E. M. Forster , who was seventy on January 1, makes some introductory remarks to his reading of this fragment-the first piece of fiction he has produced since his novel ' A Passage to India,' published in 1924