Symphony No. 80, in D minor: Orchestra of the New Friends of Music, conducted by Fritz Stiedry on gramophone records
(Symphony edited by Alfred Einstein )

by Arthur Calder-Marshall

played by Aimée van de Wiele

Talk by the Rev. A. M. Ramsey , D.D., Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University
Professor Ramsey was a member of Section I of the First Assembly of the World Council of Churches, held at Amsterdam in the summer of last year. The chief problem this section had to face (as their report says) was that they met to discuss the Church and found themselves compelled to speak about the churches. Professor Ramsey considers how this ecumenical gathering of scholars devised a method for meeting the problem

Lyrical fairy-tale in three acts by Jaroslav Kvapil
English translation by Christopher Hassall
(Continued in next column) and BBC Theatre Chorus
(Chorus-Master, John Clements ) .
BBC Theatre Orchestra (Leader, Alfred Barker )
Conducted by Stanford Robinson
Narrator, Andrew Cruickshank
Presented by Mark Lubbock
Act 1
A glade by a lake. Before dawn

Alan Ross considers the post-Symbolist movement in European poetry, which is the theme of the recently published book by Professor C. M. Bowra

Act 2
The palace gardens. Dusk

Talk by Geoffrey Taylor on the ' flower-fanciers,' descended from the French and Flemish immigrant weavers, who created our carnations and auriculas and other old-fashioned flowers

Act 3: A glade by a lake. Afternoon

In 1890 Chekhov travelled across Siberia to the convict island of Sachalin. In this talk Hubert Butler analyses Chekhov's motives in going there
(The recorded broadcast of Jan. 1)
See also tomorrow at 11.35

Irene Eisinger (soprano) Frederick Stone (piano)
Helen Pyke and Paul Hamburger
(piano duet) .
German Dances, Op. 33
Der Einsame; Der blinde Knabe;
Fischerweise
Variations on an Original Theme in A flat, Op. 35