Charles Shadwell
Edited and adapted for broadcasting by ' Sea Lion' with mualc composed, arranged, and conducted by Anthony Bernard
Others taking part: Ernest Sefton , Ronald Sidney. Hugh Manning , Duncan McIntyre , Andrew Faulds , Raf de la Torre , and Janet Morrison
Production by Wilfrid Grantham

Words by W. B. Yeats
Music by Peter Warlock
Peter Pears (tenor)
Geoffrey Gilbert (flute)
Terence MacDonagh (cor anglais)
Phllharmonia String Quartet:
Maurice Clare (violin)
Ernest Element (violin) Herbert Dewnes (viola)
William Pleeth (cello)

First of two talks by David Thomson about the Rev. Sydney Smith , wit and controversialist
This talk deals with Smith's social personality and his genius for living

Symphony No. 9, In D played by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Bruno Walter
Gramophone records of a performance In Vienna In 1938

E. M. Forster 's talk on criticism in the arts, especially music, is based on a lecture given at Harvard University in May 1947

Antonio Saffi (harpsichord)

First of four readings from the works of Sydney Smith
Read by Rat del a Torre

Fantasia contrappuntistica: Variation on the choral, Alleln Gott in der Hon. set Ehr played by Franz Osborn and Eric Harrison (two pianos)