A broadcast version by Jonquil Antony
Based on the book by Richard Oke and.the play by Richard Pryce
Storyteller. Lionel Gamlin
Produced by Archie Campbell

Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano)
Ernest Lush (piano)
Le balcon
Recueillement
La mort des amants (Cinq poemes de Baudelaire)
Fetes galantes. Book 1: En sourdine;
Clair de lune: Fantoches
Fetes galantes. Book 2: Les ingénus;
Le faune; ColloQue sentimental

Claude Colleer Abbott , Professor of English in the University of Durham, describes what recent scholarship and discovery have added to our knowledge of these two writers

A programme devised and introduced by Scott Goddard
Henry Cummings (baritone)
Winifred Roberts (violin)
Geraint Jones (harpsichord)
BBC Singers
(Conductor. Leslie Woodga-te )
BBC Chorus
New London Orchestra
(Leader, Max Saipeter )
Conductor, Alec Sherman
The title of this programme is a quotation from Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides. It refers to an occasion when a Miss McLean played ' several tunes on a spinet ' and ' sung along with it.' Generally speaking, as is well known, Dr. Johnson, who must have heard a good deal of music, took little pleasure in it. and said a number of hard things about the art and its practitioners. ' All animated nature loves music-except myself,' he once stated ; though he admitted having been affected by ' some solemn musick played on French-horns ' at Rochester, and towards the end of his life he asked Burney to teach him ' at least the alphabet of your language.'
Nevertheless, it will be interesting to hear the kind of music that he and his circle are likely to have known. The programme includes an overture by J. C. Bach (' Pray, Sir, who is Bach? Is he a piper? ' said Johnson); songs and glees by Arne, Dibdin, and Samuel Webbe ; a harpsichord concerto by Abet; part of Handel's great funeral anthem for Queen Caroline; and a violin sonata by Joseph Gibbs , an organist at Ipswich. Harold Rutland

Talk by George Buchanan , Irtsh novelist and critic
(Originally broadcast on Dec. 15 in the Northern Ireland Home Service)

String Quartet in E flat. Op. 51 String Quartet In F, Op. 96 played by the Latvian String Quartet:
Arvlds Noritls (violin)
Valdemars Rusevica (violin)
Eduards Vinerts (viola) Alfreds Ozolins (cello)
Sixth of nine programmes of music by Dvorak

A selection from the satirical ballads of William Plomer , made and read by the author
Produced by Patric Dickinson